"F" yeah! :D This is actually exciting! I'm all up for it as long as Nintendo doesn't pull any of that Capcom crap. You know,with the whole alternate costume crap.

Wow Nintendo, welcome to years ago. You're late, but come on in, the party is still going.

Now how about some free DLC?

However I'll forgive you for your ignorance Dale since FE DS #2 wasn't localized, even though you really should know your shit when talking about import games with no localization announcement.

@RockWallofMight359 My thoughts exactly! :D For the Smash Bros DLC,I mean.

Oh for fucks sake. If you think dlc existing makes a game you purchased incomplete, that sentiment will absolutely carry over to nintendo games. I wish people would stop bitching about dlc. "Oh noes, my tv doesn't have a dvd player but it's an option and other people have it. I've been sold an incomplete tv!" "Oh noes my car doesn't have entertainment centers in the headrests but it's an option that some people paid for, I've been sold an incomplete car!" Just pony the cash or shut the fuck up.

I trust Nintendo will always provide complete games like they always have all these years, even with DLC options. It's the 3rd party developers that I'm worried about. I can imagine "NEW STORY CHAPTER, PURCHASE FOR $5.99 NOW" for games such as Resident Evil. Or even worse, lock away content on the 3DS cart and sell it as DLC later on. :(

I don't trust ANY company to handle DLC well. Companies aren't your friend, they just want to make money. Eventually Nintendo most likely WILL start nickel and diming us just like Capcom and so many other companies. I guess it had to start happening eventually.

@mjemirzian: Didn't that use in game currency?

Hopefully the DLC is offered as a Nintendo club reward.

I think Nintendo doing dlc now is awesome. I believe they will handle it well and give content worth buying.

@llort het do you read the advice of Martin Lewis? Also, now you've got me worrying that Nintendo will introduce online passes...

Welcome to 2006, Nintendo.

All venom aside, I'm glad that Nintendo's decided to do paid DLC. If anyone can do it right, it'd be these guys. Also, I hope they do paid DLC for Smash Bros 4, because extra characters was something that Brawl was seriously lacking.

I don't like this at all. Nintendo actually has had free DLC for some DS games like Picross and Mario vs Donkey Kong. Are those days gone forever?

@Daxelman No, the rainbow potion and growth drops were free "cheat" items you could obtain just for connecting the game through wifi. They did make the game significantly easier, especially the rainbow potion. So downloadable "cheat" items already exist in a recent Fire Emblem, the only thing missing from them is the price tag. Of course I wouldn't expect clueless gamers like the Destructoid staff to know what they're talking about, instead giving out ignorant free passes.

If the game comes to these shores and those DLC's are more story/battles then yeah, I can totally see me coughing up the dough to see them. Fire Emblem may not be the most universal series Nintendo has (which is where I see the flaw, Nintendo won't see huge numbers every where with this game over something else) but DLC would be the most fitting in this setting.

i'm ok with this, if this means next FE goes outside Japan

@mjemirzian
There is a BIG difference between connecting through free wi-fi to get cheat items, and actually paying money for them. Not comparable at all, and I don't see how the former would even lead to the latter if Nintendo has already spoken against it.

@GreenAiden555

I have to agree. It would simply be naive to believe that Nintendo is above the standard practices of "nickel and diming" it's customers.

I'm not going to be a blind fanboy and say this is a good thing. I play a lot more games on Nintendo consoles and handhelds than anything else, because they don't have DLC. You get the complete experience right out of the box, paying just one flat fee. I'm worried about this. Not just for Nintendo, but 3rd parties will obviously abuse it.

@green, bruce
Of course Nintendo isn't above such things, but that itself is also not proof of anything.
What proof we do have of Nintendo good intentions is official statements made against the very nickel and diming you're prematurely accusing them of, which isn't much better tham saying it is a good thing.
Perhaps it is naive to trust, but then it is also jaded and cynical to so completely distrust as well.

Nintendo said that if they were going for the DLC style of business, it would be only huge content based expansions for a low price, so no worries.

I have faith, nintendo is one of the few gaming companies that LEARN FROM MISTAKES.

I consider this awful, awful news; worst policy change Nintendo has had in recent memory. This is content that they are planning before launch, but decided to release as paid DLC instead. If it were free, I wouldn't be so turned off to this game by this, but it's paid DLC. Basically, Nintendo is admitting that they could release a better game than what's going to be at launch, but instead they'd rather chop up the game and sell the pieces separately. I don't care if this is standard in the industry, it's still bullshit, and until now Nintendo has never jumped this bandwagon.

I'm a huge Nintendo fan, and that's exactly why I'm not going to buy this game (even though I previously was going to). No-paid-DLC-in-first-party-games was one of Nintendo's best policies, and if they start shoving this shit in many other of their games its going to ruin them for me. Paid DLC encourages incomplete game design, and I can't imagine many of their games being nearly as memorable if they had sections taken out to be sold as DLC (and yes, they are being "taken out" because these would otherwise be in the game if it weren't for DLC). Would Ocarina of Time be as memorable if the giant's knife needed to be unlocked for 500 Nintendo points?, or would Kirby be as fun to experiment with if you had to purchase "ability-packs"?

I don't care if the 360, the PS3, PC games, and every smartphone out there have DLC, the lack of it on Nintendo systems was a GOOD thing. I really feel like the people who wanted this on Nintendo platforms didn't play their games on there in the first place.

You know, I haven't been joining in on the Wii U cynicism because honestly most complaints seem overreactive so far ( "OMG it has a resistive screen instead of multi-touch even though it has a full set of buttons?"), but this singular piece of news has made my excitement for it drop like a stone.

@GreenAiden555, Sonic7877
Agreed. I hope the fanboys who try to justify crap like this realize that by not faulting Nintendo when they are wrong encourages the company to act stupidly.

DLC is something I want to see in the next Smash Bros game, especially if it features a) new playables b)new stages c) A new adventure mode or d) new music(If its on the cheap)