Nintendo Plans Digital Availability for Wii U Titles

Published on 06-20-12 02:34 PM

According to a European developer who recently gave confirmed information on Wii U Achievements, Nintendo wants to make all Wii U games available for download in the eShop.

This is an appealing offer for both consumers and publishers. Downloading makes games available at the push of a button, and is more profitable than selling through retailers first. It’d also support indie developers, and Nintendo is cutting revenues more than Sony and Microsoft's. So why not?

“They’re offering insane incentives for publishers to sell retail games as downloads on the console,” the developer says. “You’d be stupid not to take advantage of it and go retail box-only. The new platform is perfect for indie devs, it’s a whole different ball game than WiiWare. They’ve learned a lot from that mess."

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9 Comments

maxwebb - 06-20-12
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koool!!!!!!

Quakuh - 06-20-12
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I'm looking forward to Minecraft for Wii U, It would be mega Awesome...

Hyperr - 06-20-12
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If they're willing to put whole WiiU Games on the eShop, then they're most likely going to make a GC VC.

mixedboi - 06-20-12
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Yeah because Gamestop's not quite cutting it for me anymore.

dleshawn - 06-21-12
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tell that to gamestop

StephF - 06-21-12
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That'd be awesome to finally have Wii-U games available as a digital copy.

:)

LordRyuujin - 06-21-12
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Why are all the pictures of the Wii U Gamepad of the original prototype now and not the new one? Thats just weird to me. On the note of this article, I don't care. Unless it available ONLY as a DL title, I tend to try to get the physical copy over all.