Nintendo DS Browser apathy!? Say it isn't so!
Hello again, handheld hooligans! It's my first actual Nintendo DS post! I thought I was going to go insane after that Poo Smells Poopy post. Now that I have purged my inner child, I will continue on with today's DS news, the Opera Web Browser... DS. According to an article I spied my eye on in Gamespot, Japan seems frightfully divided over the browser on that lovable handheld. However, its release is still slated for late July in the land of our Asiatic cousins. If history is a reliable forture teller, it will tell us that any disinterest in video gaming paraphenalia in Japan means its virtual non-existence on North American shores (maybe even Europe). One such reason for DS Browser apathy include the inability to have a full web browsing experience on the handheld (e.g. audio/video playback, flash, etc.). Let's stop right there. We're talking about browsing the web on a portable device, people! It's not like Opera and Nintendo have the time and resources to fit all existing web technologies onto a single cartridge. That is so unfeasible, it's ridiculous. Additionally, I don't know of any handheld device that you can fully experience the web on, not even that so-called PSP (don't even get me started on when I tried to browse the web on my cellphone... sheesh!). If anyone finds such a device, let me know, I'd be very interested to know about it! That being said, web browsing on a portable device (other than a laptop) was meant for purely informational purposes, mild entertainment, and of course, porn. So what if the new DS Browser doesn't support all the bells and whistles of a PC web browser? If I wanted to experience the full web wherever I go, I would carry my 50 ton PC and a huge ass electrical generator in my backpack (they would complement my heavy textbooks quite nicely!). To conclude my little rant, I would like to say that I really, really, REALLY hope that the DS Browser makes it here in North America. We all should do our part to support this little piece of technological wonder. In an effort to convince Nintendo and Opera to release the DS Browser here, I will show off a little banner I found:
