Nintendo DS WPA
Nintendo Why!? We love you Nintendo, but you drive us crazy sometimes.
Need I remind you about the N64 controller or the Virtual Boy. What about the missing backlight on the GBA? The GBA SP finally got a backlight, but you removed the headphone socket!
We made a leap of faith to understand your logic when you decided to use cartridges in the N64 when everyone else had switched to CD-ROM. We loved the Gamecube, despite restricting developers with its graphics capabilities and mini-DVD discs. We know that sometimes you like to you fly in the face of convention and other times, you rarely stray from it. We can forgive the endless recycling and dilution of existing IPs because although sometimes you get it wrong, most of the time you get it very very right. But your inability to foresee the changing market during the SNES era meant that you were directly responsible for giving us the Playstation.
That’s a toughie to forgive.
We all mocked you mercilessly when you announced the DS. Okay, we admit it, you proved us wrong on that one. 65 million machines sold worldwide is a tough figure to argue against.
One question constantly niggles me though, Nintendo. Why, in the name of all things sane and sacred, did you limit the wi-fi connectivity of the Nintendo DS to just WEP encryption? If your answer in any way involves the Nintendo Wi-Fi USB Connector, please make sure it also includes something about Mac drivers. With WEP easily cracked these days, encouraging its use is irresponsible and lazy. If Sony can regularly update the firmware on the PSP to include things like Skype, why can’t you fix something as simple as this?