We already know the upcoming Fire Emblem iteration will be getting paid DLC, but apparently that's not the only key franchise Nintendo is looking at. Among a few other tidbits of information involving the financial success of the 3DS in a recent Nintendo Q&A, big cheese Satoru Iwata dropped a particular juicy bit of information: potential downloadable content for future Mario games. Everyone's favorite everyman had this to say about the subject:
"As I referred to before, for example, this is the idea of supplying new stages to Super Mario users who want to play the game more but have completed the game and lost interest in the existing stages. This will not only give us new profits but will lengthen the life of a product, in that it will never be out of fashion and can keep attracting public attention as long as many people play it."
Note the important phrase "new profits [for Nintendo]", which implies paid add-ons. Ok Iwata, so let me get this straight. What you're saying is downloadable content, done right, can lengthen the replay value of a game and profit the publisher? Wouldn't that be a win-win situation? Or perhaps, as Michael Scott would say, a win-win-win?
Nintendo President Mentions Downloadable Stages For Future Mario Games [Siliconera]
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4:30 PM on 01.30.2012 | 
Goddamn the game industry is making me sad panda lately. Viva la indie revolution!
nintendo suckered me into buying that worthless piece of shit and shall never be forgiven
If this is about selling half-finished work to people at full price and making double the profit by unlocking what is already present in the game itself or adding what should have rightfully been in the game in the first place, as so many seem to think is commonly acceptable practice, then fuck you for not taking the high road when you had the choice.
It's starting to be blatantly obvious that the industry is about the people who publish the games, not about the people who make them or the people who play them. Hopefully Nintendo isn't that douchey, but you just never know these days.
If this is about selling half-finished work to people at full price and making double the profit by unlocking what is already present in the game itself or adding what should have rightfully been in the game in the first place, as so many seem to think is commonly acceptable practice, then fuck you for not taking the high road when you had the choice. "
Exactly this. There's a reason why Borderlands has awesome DLC and Mafia 2 has shitty DLC.
Oh Nintendo not having DLC was actually one of the things that drew me to you this console gen ~.~ Sad to see it go.
They won't betray consumers trust and spam DLC, they're just not like that. Also I'm pretty confident online passes would go against Nintendo's ideals as a company. I doubt those abominations will ever grace Nintendo a product.
& Bowser Jr., Diddy Kong and Professor E. Gadd
levels 1-2, 1-3, 1-4 2-2,2-3 2-4 etc. will be sold as DLC
These statements were made at an investors briefing, and many of the people there *don't* know what dlc is.
Also, Nintendo was never against dlc: only flimsy dlc. There stance is you buy a full, finished game, and add to it later with extra content.
^_^;;
Haha holy crap that's the worst piece of crap I've ever heard. iPhone games better than Nintendo games? Don't make me $&@#%*^ laugh!
He's talking to investors, in a financial meeting, not to us the general video game consumers. Half of those investors, probably don't even know what a video game is, at alone what DLC is. So he's implying that they haven't heard of it before, not you in particular!
Next you'll be saying that the iPhone is an open platform, or some other nonsense.
At the very least, we can expect good, clean content.
Yes, I'm with you! Those add-on, e-reader levels need to be seen by the world! Please, Nintendo.
Nintendo's stuff would be great for this.. More missions in Star Fox; More Dungeons and story elements in Zelda; More levels and fighters in Smash Bros. They could make it work if they nail down the execution of it all..
Either way, the games we can download from the eShop now are great, but I've got an 8gb SD card in mine that I thought I'd need, but apparently didnt figure on going mostly unfilled, even with the 20+ free games they've given us.. FILL MY MEMORY CARD NINTENDO! MAKE THAT EXTRA $10 I DIDN'T NEED TO SPEND -in hindsight- WORTH IT!!!