Nintendo and McDonald’s Team Up
Nintendo of America is expected to announce today that it will offer free wi-fi for its Nintendo DS system at McDonald’s restaurants. Customers will be able to play select DS games with other players around the world.
McDonald’s already offers Wi-Fi to laptop users for a fee in 6,000 restaurants nationwide, but the free Nintendo arrangement will permit the DS machines to play without a laptop.
Wireless access for the DS will be provided by an Austin, Tx company, which supplies Wi-Fi to McDonald’s. Nintendo will pay an undisclosed fee for the service.
The Texas company expects to have Wi-Fi in around 7,000 McDonald’s outlets in America by June.
The online game service will begin next month with two titles: Mario Kart DS and Tony Hawk’s American SK8Land. Two other games, Animal Crossing: Wild World and Metroid Prime Hunters, will be available by the end of the year.
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