Nintendo Reveals Content Filtering System for DS Browser

The last thing Nintendo – with their family-friendly image – needs is a “scandal” of the PSP Porn sort; so they’ve taken steps to prevent enraged parents from blaming them for the porn pictures on their son’s DS.

Nintendo has announced a deal with a Japanese company called DigitalArts, who will be providing a content filtering system for the upcoming DS browser. The service will be available on the day the browser launches, which is July 24 in Japan.

It was also confirmed that the DigitalArts service is external and will not be integrated in the browser software directly, and more interestingly, will cost you a juicy monthly fee of ¥315/$2.70 if you want your kid kept away from the unrelenting swamp of obscenity that is the porn industry.

While there’s still no sign of a US release date for the Opera-based browser software, we can only assume that Nintendo will use it’s DigitalArts deal as some kind of testing grounds, to find out if parents actually like paying a third party company monthly for their child’s uh, security. Then, they might strike a similar deal for Western territories or go for a more directly integrated solution. We’ll keep you posted.

Via Gamasutra

The last thing Nintendo – with their family-friendly image – needs is a “scandal” of the PSP Porn sort; so they’ve taken steps to prevent enraged parents from blaming them for the porn pictures on their son’s DS.

Nintendo has announced a deal with a Japanese company called DigitalArts, who will be providing a content filtering system for the upcoming DS browser. The service will be available on the day the browser launches, which is July 24 in Japan.

It was also confirmed that the DigitalArts service is external and will not be integrated in the browser software directly, and more interestingly, will cost you a juicy monthly fee of ¥315/$2.70 if you want your kid kept away from the unrelenting swamp of obscenity that is the porn industry.

While there’s still no sign of a US release date for the Opera-based browser software, we can only assume that Nintendo will use it’s DigitalArts deal as some kind of testing grounds, to find out if parents actually like paying a third party company monthly for their child’s uh, security. Then, they might strike a similar deal for Western territories or go for a more directly integrated solution. We’ll keep you posted.

Via Gamasutra