Nintendo's handheld expands its reach into every part of Japanese life yet again.
Nikkei reports that McDonald's will begin using Nintendo's DS system as a training tool for part-time employees in Japan. The fast food chain plans to leverage the Japanese public's existing familiarity with the device to cut training time in half.
The training software will be called "eSmart", and will be played on DS systems given to the company's approximately 3,700 Japanese restaurants at a rate of two per outlet. The software cost an estimated 200 million yen to develop.
This training program only serves to expand the DS' presence in Japanese McDonald's restaurants, with their Nintendo Zone service already allowing in-store downloading of various types of content to the device.