Nintendo DS Education Package (big in Japan)
Nintendo sneaks out new school edition DS: DS Classroom will be teacher’s favourite little helper
“The Nintendo DS Classroom <original pressrelease in Japanese> features no new hardware, but instead consists of a package of several handhelds, a PC and newly developed educational software for the DS.” from TechRadar.com
Supposedly the DS bundle will contain no games and would use the DS WiFi and the PC to distrubute classmaterials. No word yet on if these materials will come from the teacher or Nintendo. Ofcourse this will be released in Japan first and then in other countries depending on reaction.
I’m still not sure why you would have to disable gameplay to make them educational devices. The games could really be a carrot on a stick for the right student.
Update: Does this seem like Nintendo trying to a tethered down version of the OLPC project?
