Topic: Nintendo's Demo Play to be Featured in DS Games

[NWR_pap64]

The initiative to attract inexperienced gamers will be present in future DS titles.
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 Andriasang reports that Nintendo's Demo Play feature will be available in future DS games as well. A story by Japanese newspaper Nikkei confirms that not only will New Super Mario Bros. Wii be the first title to feature Demo Play, but that this initiative will be focused on high-speed action games on the DS as well.    <P>
Nintendo's Demo Play is a new feature that hopes to help new gamers complete games by assisting them with certain challenges they can't do on their own. USA Today was the first to confirm that New Super Mario Bros. Wii will be the first title to implement the new feature. <P>

[BlackNMild2k1]

Hopefully this means MGS: Portable Ops gets a DS version now

[Mop it up]

It seems like a good fit on the DS. For some games, it could show you a demonstration on one screen whilst you play on the other screen.

[broodwars]

Are there really "inexperienced gamers" left at this point who don't already buy Nintendo's DS software?  I was under the impression that the DS was a license to print money for them.

[KDR_11k]

I think it's more about games the inexperienced players don't buy yet than the fhardware.

[kraken613]

All I take this Demo play to mean is now they don't have to dumb a game down for the casuals. (PLEASE MEAN THIS) I hope NSMBW will be difficult, I found NSMB extremely easy, a great game but too easy.

[TJ Spyke]

All of the reports out of E3 i've read indicate that NSMW is a lot more difficult than NSMB was (I think some NWR staffers even admitted to dying on the first level). That is why I don't get why anyone would complain about this feature. It's an optional feature and it allows Nintendo to make games a little more difficult since casual gamers can basically skip parts they can't beat.

[BlackNMild2k1]

All this feature means is I don't have to have some unskilled gamer come asking me to beat certain parts of a game for them because its too hard.
As long as Nintendo doesn't allow abuse of the system and requires users of this feature to atleast try so that they earn the right(especially later in the game) to use it, then I don't really see the problem.

[Peachylala]

I suspect Nintendo wouldn’t allow the feature to be used right away, because that would defeat the purpose of playing the game. They should do it a’la Rhythm Heaven, allow the player to skip the level if they are doing bad on it. It happened to me a couple of times in the game (due to me focusing more on the action then the music itself).