The DS Lite + Baseball = A Perfect Combination

TwilightPrince | July 08, 2007 | News | DS Misc

Nintendo is always trying to appeal to a new gaming audience, and this time it's no exception. If you bring your DS or DS Lite to a Seattle Mariner's game in Safeco Field, you're in for a treat. For a one-time fee of $5, you'll be able to order food, watch the live television feed of the game, watch instant replays, or even access stats and scores and play trivia ... all from the comfort of your seat. (no matter where you are seated in the stadium)

The Redmond, Wash.-based company is making a pitch to turn its portable DS Lite into a baseball staple, bringing interactive technology to fans through a pilot program being tested this season at the Mariners' Safeco Field.

The innovative program is called the Nintendo Fan Network. For a fee, the network uploads a program onto the user's DS Lite and allows fans to order food and drinks, watch the live television feed of the game, access stats and scores and play trivia, all from the comfort of their seat -- whether it's a premium seat behind home plate or in the top row of the stadium.

"It's been a work in progress. Once we created the technology of the DS, we started looking at other applications to use its wireless features," said Nintendo corporate affairs manager J.C. Smith. "The program system became so popular ... so we sought other ways to make this a fun system for people to have."

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Vito Raliffe | July 08, 2007

Holy shit, that is totally awesome

I might go to a game just to try the program. I didn't know the DS could be used for stuff like this.
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FRoGBuster | July 08, 2007

hells yeah! I'm gonna go get me a seat at the mariners game! I live near seattle so this is perfect! I'm going to be using my stylus with mustard and ketchup covered fingers and get my screen dirty ordering more hot dogs while I check some dude's stats. I hope they do this for basketball and street racing too!

hmm.. but then.. PSP is probably better at showing live feeds and replays with its higher power and wider screen and resolution.... maybe this whole thing will just be overtaken by Sony. Hahah. that would be a little hilarious.
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MrSponget | July 08, 2007

Hopefully the Mets or the Yankees can get that later this year.
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  TwilightPrince | July 09, 2007
  
  Oh man, I wish.
  
  I go to lots of Yankees games every year.
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Guugley | July 08, 2007

quote Vito Raliffe
Holy shit, that is totally awesome
What he said. Nintendo always seem to pop-up with original, whacky ideas and everyone likes that they take risks.
I've not heard of anything like this before, but I don't really check games sites so I couldn't be certain if this' a first.
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Rinkydink | July 08, 2007

Haha wow that is totally cool. I really hope Nintendo expand this awesome idea to other places so it is more widely used. Heck I would be over the moon if they did something like this in football stadiums over here in the UK!
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nflsmc | July 09, 2007

I want to do this at a Patriots game!

Make it football too!!!
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Imperial Zhou Tai | July 09, 2007

WOW that is so unbelievably cool! Hopefully this really rubs it in all the PSPers faces This is one heck of a feature. Getting all baseball teams to do this would be AMAZING.
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black_wing79 | July 09, 2007

this is truly something cool.. but i guess it can only be at baseball games.. seeing that i have to travel 15000 km to try this out , i think i will pass on it..
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Deviant | July 11, 2007

Hahaha! Screw PSPs. They'll probably try and copy something like this though....