Nintendo DSi users get to share pictures on Facebook

Nintendo said that it is updating DSi software to allow users to upload pictures from the camera-equipped handheld videogame devices to hot social-networking website Facebook.The Facebook photo-sharing feature is to be live after 5:00 pm in California and usable with a free system update to be available online. “Facebook and Nintendo DSi build on the trend of personalisation that is so important to consumers,” Nintendo of America executive vice president of sales and marketing Cammie Dunaway said in a statement. “We’re giving people the tools to express themselves in creative new ways and show off the results to their friends and family on Facebook.” DSi users will be able to tap an on-screen icon to send photos from DSi camera albums to Facebook profile pages by means of wireless broadband Internet connections, according to Nintendo. The Japanese videogame titan has sold more than 1.7 million DSi devices in the United States since the third-generation of the game system was launched, in April according to figures from industry-tracker NPD Group. afp