Wow, that's cool. Nintendo has some real geniuses at work for them. I don't know that a lot of what they come up with is particularly marketable, but it's so inspirationally out of the box...
Then the microsoft points system would work well - you buy block of points and cary out te transactions in points. I believe that Nintendo are going to use the same method.
I aint sure that you need this art course, if you have nintendo ds, just get "colors!" program and start learning it. "Colors!" is pretty intuitive and gui is pretty much photoshop like.
http://nintendo-ds.dcemu.co.uk/ Lots of stuff homebrew apps/games. http://gbatemp.net/ post news on lots of ds/gba homebrew news. Just put their iPod app on my DS. it's pretty cool
Keep in mind that market-share doesn't necessarily determine a winner. In most industries it does, and in many ways it does in the video game industry also, but Nintendo doesn't operate quite the same as the other two.
But the main thing, is why some can do stuff like this http://sakimichan.deviantart.com/art/Link-X-Dark-Link-WARNING-YAOI-teaser-563312274 Nintendo would never allow this in a legal way.
http://www.teapotters.com/home_private_beta.php It's in beta right now but you can view the demo (model of Nintendo Wii). If this thing takes off I can see it changing game artist portfolios for the better. Check it out!
If this was the official advertising campaign from Nintendo, I'd buy three. One to play, and the other two to create Wii flip-flops to wear around all day. I LOVE that commercial.
[ QUOTE ] Four Swords has the problem that you can't play it with regular controllers... [/ QUOTE ] Yeah asking nintendo fanboys to plug thier GBA into thier cube, was asking too much...