"Doing such things (charging for DLC) might be good for short term profit but it will not serve our mid term and long term business developments." -quote Iwata
Guess what folks? guess. Super Mario bros 2 on 3DS is gonna have DLC. You know the one where the first person to collect 1,000,000 gold coins get some kinda prize from Nintendo? that one. I won't spend much time on an assumption but I assume the DLC levels have the most coins cuz if they didnt and I paid real money in the hopes to get a leg up on the competition I'd be really pissed how bout you?
I found these quotes on a video game news site and I thought about it. Nintendo doesnt really go down the DLC path I mean hell they COULD and I wouldn't know it since I dont Wii..........ever but as I mentioned they are the king of extra crap. The N64 saw expansion packs rumble packs controller expansion packs and bla bla bla. The Wii has roughly 9,298 peripheral add ons to date. So we have been buying DLC from Nintendo for a while now we just never called it DLC. (So what you dont actually download it you are still spending extra). But I will say Nintendo games never DLC'd you. I can't think of a zelda or mario game that wanted or NEEDED you to spend extra money...oh wait the rumble pack on N64 for Ocarina of time if you wanted to hunt the Skulltulas....whatever.
It's no secret Iwata says it all the time-the WiiU is draining their bank account. They need to recover the cash somehow. This is more than likely an experiment in how much they can get out of ehem "extra" content. Nintendo always comes off as cuddly and friendly and on the players' side. I can completely see how this happens. Put some friendly faces up there-they show you their Mii, everyone laughs they tell a joke and now it is much easier to convince you that they havent already sold out the mature gamer they raised. You can't picture these nice guys being anything less than on your side. Well the simple fact is they are business men and they will always be on Nintendo's side unless they don't like eating food.
Nintendo is the top priority of Ninetendo; not how you feel as a gamer-shit that much is obvious just by the Wii's existence alone. I think that Nintendo is moving towards DLC and calling it such not because of greed but simply because of survival. It's no secret that Nintendo is a bit flustered right now. While being flustered they are trying to release a console that should have been released at least a good 5 years ago. Nintendo has lost faith in itself. I remember when I was a kid SNES was (is) the pinnacle of gaming. It was so good it kicked the ass out of everything Sega tried. Sega 16 bit-buried. Sega CD-buried. Sega 32X-buried. Atari jaguar-buried. Snes was so good it beat the crap out of systems with far superior graphic quality. Nintendo took their time and when it was ready the N64 debuted with success. After that it seems like they have been running and falling a step behind their competitors every year and if you ask me it's because they fell in love with gimmicks rather than fun and quality.
What happened to the innovation? What happened to being ahead of your time? I guess when you no longer are you squeeze the stone and see if blood comes out.
