DS to have wireless game-sharing functionality

During an interview with GameSpot, Nintendo researchers Takashi Tezuka and Hideki Konno revealed that the DS will have a wireless version of the Game Boy Advance's game-sharing ability.

With the original Nintendo portable, several titles, most prominently the Mario Advance series, allowed a group of GBAs to play a multiplayer game off of a single cartridge. The various portables without the cartridge would download a limited version or single map via GBA connectors.

While demonstrating Metroid Prime: Hunters to GameSpot editors, Tezuka and Konno discussed how the DS would have similar functionality--but without any pesky wires. "If you had four people but only one had the game, that person could transmit the game to all the others present for a four-person match," said Tezuka.