The Nintendo company plans on launching an "always on" feature to the Nintendo DSi. Although the task Nintendo has set themselves is hard to acheive they also plan to make the feature free to use.

Big N considering an "always on" connection for its popular handheld

While Nintendo has always maintained that it doesn't want to compete with mobile phone manufacturers, the company has revealed that it is considering the notion of adding some form of online data connection to its DS console.

Chatting to the Financial Times, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata mentioned that he was attracted by the idea of bringing some form of "always on" connection to the device - a similar concept to Amazon's Kindle book reader.

However, the firm won't be looking to follow Apple's lead with charging users to use this functionality, and Iwata spoke of the difficulty of adopting a contract-based format:

Dragoon via ds.nintendolife.com »