There were rumors abound that the DS was going to be able to have games downloaded to it once it was hooked up to the Wii. Turns out, the two will still be integrated, but games will not be allowed to be downloaded. The only thing would be demos. Here is a printed correction from Wednesday’s New York Times article discussing the DS:

Correction: January 9, 2008

An article in Business Day on Dec. 31 about Nintendo’s hand-held DS video game player referred incorrectly to capabilities planned for the device. In the future, the Nintendo DS will be able to receive demonstration versions of some DS games from Wii, Nintendo’s latest game console; it will not be able to receive the entire game. (The demonstration version will be erased once the Nintendo DS is turned off.)

False alarm on all fronts on this one.