I grabbed this letter out of the IGN DS mail bag:

hey, i heard rummors that the nintendo DS is going online relatively soon. Now i'm a loyal nintendo player and am pretty partial to xbox, however, i hate sony with a passion. i despise everything about sony, but the PSP is looking ever so sweet compared to my DS. Once the DS goes online, i'd be content. Do you know when this could possibly be happening?

mick

It's no rumor, the Nintendo DS is indeed going online later this year with games like Animal Crossing. And while I can't say anything official about who's responsible for the development kit to get the DS online, if you read the latest issue of Nintendo Power you'll notice that they have an article about a company named "GameSpy" helping Nintendo out with the API. Hmm...

-- Craig

Do you realise this means we could play Animal Crossing together over the 'net?

Yes It'll be great!

There's an article here about it, if you haven't read it. Then you should go to the video section and download 'Footage from GDC 2005'.

I'm still excited about the sky in the game. You could never see it in the original

Ah, thanks for that.

The screens look pretty good. Chunky little characters.

Great...my disolve not to get DS is weakening by the second.

Join the dark side

Not that I know what makes it dark..

DS is very good.

Very, VERY good.

You must feel the power of the DS.

Join us, you must.