Sorry folkies, but Nintendo isn't a phone company. Nobody use facetime on iPhone,...
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Agreed, why must every gadget be all-encompassing? Look at Sony Ericsson- a company who make a gaming phone that isn't as good as a PSP, camera phones that aren't as good as Sony digital camera's and Walkman phones that aren't as good as their own MP3 players.... Do we really want Nintendo to just become a gadget company? I would NEVER use video chat on a 3DS- I would use a messenger occasionally but there is no point to video chat at all. Name one thing the 3DS does for which it would be useful. You can't, can you?
Another thing that keeps getting bought up is youtube- if youtube and Nintendo combined their forces to make a 3D video uploading and watching service, that would be pretty cool. However it is more likely that Nintendo would make their own video hosting on club Nintendo so they could keep tabs on what was happening (not a bad thing- if they had competitions and a 3D flipnote style application they would encourage a lot of creativity and innovative uses for 3D).
5 years from now we'll have a lot of quality games (and many bad ones). That is the main point of the 3DS, just that