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McNintendo
by Ian Bogost October 18, 2005
categories:
Advergames
, Console & PC Games
Thanks to our friends at Kotaku for digging up this nugget (har har): apparently Nintendo is about to announce that free DS WiFi service will be available in McDonalds. Perhaps they will later replace the Playplace with a big pile of beanbags for our increasingly large cheeseburger-stuffed lads and lasses to sit whilst they smear their cola-stickied hands over their DS screens.
Sticky fingers and chicken nuggets aside, does this move just reinforce the perception that the DS is a console for kids, or does it create new opportunity for a more generally popular game platform?
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