Macheartattack have done it again McDonald’s + Nintendo = McTendo. Wired gaming news reports today :
“Nintendo has signed an agreement with Wi-Fi provider Wayport that will let DS users connect to the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection service for free in 6,000 McDonald’s locations across the United States. Starting November 14, you’ll be able to order your Happy Meal, grab a chair, launch any Wi-Fi-enabled DS game, and access Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection, supposedly without any further setup or connection hassles.”
The articles goes on to outline the possible contract extending to the new codename revolution device from nintendo by the end of 2006. So, is this the future of lan parties? After all I guess bar pizza it’s one of the good ‘ole lan treats (not to forget kfc). As we all hook up and tune out of our surroundings I guess there is no place we can’t forget about and guide our little cyber pooches and mario’s through world’s that let us leave the plastic, grease and hardening arterys.
This still to me has sinister tones. Like in the documentary ‘Super Size Me’, where Morgan Spurlock among other things hinted at the less and healthy Macdiddlies obsession with kids; this to me also sends alarm bells ringing in my head. Who do you really think is the majority player of the DS? What little darling will be able to resist a chance to play wifi stylie while clogging their toxic bodies and spot splattered faces? It sends a shiver down my paranoid conspiracy theory filing cabinet conscious.
Yes, it’s something already in our society. You can go wireless with your expresso, your bagel and probably even in your local laundrette. A chain of wireless laundrettes actually sounds like a viable business plan (excuse me while I mug a backer). However, somehow (even it’s a squint in my consciousness and not right), to me it seems worse when MacDonalds do it. It’s not that I have a thing against wi-fi, far from it considering my job. I think it’s the fact it’s the DS and it’s MacDonalds. Maybe I’ve just not had enough coffee and done to much variable passing today. It just doesn’t sit right with me.
