Name: G.I. Jonesy
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Think about it... you're on a road trip, in a vehicle of some kind, for 8 hours of driving a day. What does one do for such periods? Look out the window? Get truck-drivers to use their horns? Play eye spy or 20 questions? Or maybe, pop out a 3ds, with a 4g lte 30 ping connection and shed the time away?

What if there was an MMO simple enough to be played with the 3ds controls? With the touch-screen, you could actually have a fair amount of abilities. The cartridges only hold 2 gigs, but can't they hold more? If an SD card can hold 50 gigs, couldn't a game cartridge do the same? I realize it would be more expensive, but if the game was good enough, people would pay for it. If the game cartridge can't hold more than 2 gigs, maybe the game could ship with a special SD card to hold the extra data? I can certainly imagine some great multiplayer games possible on a portable device, provided there is enough space.

With the advent of 4g, portable gaming reaches a whole new level (it's not inconceivable future portable gaming devices would have a 4g device built-in). That means, we can play online games, with 30 ping, from practically wherever we are. Sitting in class... (who wants to pay attention to some lame school stuff anyway?), riding the bus, subway or train, in a carpool, on an airplane (eventually), sitting in a park somewhere (better to see animated tree's than the real things), waiting for your mom while she's shopping... yes, portable gaming and 4g cure so many of the ill's boring society. And when society is bored, they start murdering. I hereby move to increase the rate of 4g production, and call upon Nintendo to release some really class multiplayer games. The fate of the world depends on it.