"The exercises are supposed to help make prettier faces by making the skin more elastic." What??? That's idiotic! First, even if it worked, excercising your face doesn't sound like a terribly exciting game ... Second, who would walk into a store and ask for 'that game that makes you less ugly'?? They'll have to come up with a game that actually makes sense before the camera will be marketable here ... maybe that's why no North American release has been announced yet!

I think no North American release has been announced because yours is the prevailing attitude amongst people here. I believe Japanese consumers are much more receptive to this kind of thing, so I suspect it'll do pretty well overseas.

I think that's a pretty neat idea, actually. Nintendo's always coming up with such odd ideas to make more interesting games. Frankly, making faces at my DS would amuse me and I don't think the market was to suggest peope are ugly, only that in relaxing and working your facial muscles, you prevent muscle stiffness and other things that could detract.

Is this camera just for a game, or can you use it to take pictures and save them like you do on a cell phone? If so, then adding a camera to your DS would not be such a bad idea.

Nintendo is all about breaking the mould and trying something new with their devices, and with the Nintendo Wii it has more than payed off.

So honestly mt in Ottowa do you really think that a camera on the DS would have no more practical uses than facial excersises? Nintendo starts off with funny ridiculous ideas and uses them as a springboard to something more mainstream.

Any further news on the camera for the DS? Is it even out here in Canada? Will it be coming out in Canada? Waiting anxiously, here :)