Game Guides on Handheld Consoles

I've been pondering the value of handheld consoles recently - as you do.

The DS lite is getting more appealing - primarily because of Brain Trainingand Hotel Dusk but I still can't find many reasons to purchase a PSP (besides I'd rather get the Wii and PS3 first!)

However, I've also recently started replaying Final Fantasy VIIand something that the handhelds would be great for would be as a context sensitive game guide.
I'm sure many gamers either miss parts of a game as they don't realise it's there or fail to acheive the conditions needed to open that bit/weapon/character/bonus up, or when using guides have to balance playing the game with hunting through a text file or online guide keeping up with where they are.

How much simpler would it be to have a guide open in your handheld that is linked to where you are in the game and changes accordingly - posting strategies for enemy encounters, flagging up hidden treasure and having files to hand to solve puzzles. Build it in a Wiki format and the gamers can edit it as they go along, adding new findings to be updated to the web for others to use themselves.

Would this really be that hard to implement?

Really?

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