Wii DLC finally coming to discs, WiiWare titles
Friday, February 22nd, 2008 at 2:31pm by Jack
A quick snippet from a snippet at Game|Life today:
his address at GDC this morning, Nintendo project leader Takashi Aoyama said that Nintendo will, in the near future, allow Wii owners to use Wii Points (purchased with a credit card transaction online or on cards in stores) to buy add-on content for games. He said that add-on contents would also be available for disc-based games as well as WiiWare downloadable titles.
The add-on contents for disc games would be purchased within the game, Aoyama said.
’bout bloody frickin’ time, no? Also, conveniently this news could put the Wii DLC timeline around the launch of WiiWare and Mario Kart Wii, the latter of which better have downloadable tracks, upgrades and new racer/kart downloads as a result of this. Seriously, what a fitting way for a company like Nintendo to introduce such a thing — on their own system with their own game on their own terms. Nada’s changed, folks!
February 22nd, 2008 at 4:03 pm
Except Brawl is not getting this (in a way), so I could careless about this.
February 22nd, 2008 at 4:21 pm
Hey, it’s finally been announced. Now if they’d just get to how the storage system is going to work. I’m not excited about an SD card solution, but I’ll take it over “to d/l more stuff, delete other stuff first.”
February 22nd, 2008 at 4:46 pm
Storage is still a nagging issue.
February 22nd, 2008 at 5:10 pm
Does this mean it’s going to finally allow for GH3 to get downloads or does it mean it’s never gonna happen as downloads are purchased in game and i assume this feature isn’t present in the Wii version.
February 22nd, 2008 at 5:23 pm
Another option would be to have an online “account” on Nintendo servers to store content. But then the Wi-Fi service would probably not be free anymore!
Well, that would not be a bad thing: MicroSoft charges for their online service, and that’s why they are at the top on that…
February 22nd, 2008 at 5:27 pm
@InvisibleMan,
Did you miss the announcemet of Pay and Play service, where you can pay for certain online features?
February 22nd, 2008 at 6:17 pm
Seriously nintendo, usb drive support, please.
February 22nd, 2008 at 7:00 pm
So this basically means they can now nickel and dime us to death by withholding content.
Woohoo!
February 22nd, 2008 at 8:10 pm
It also comes at a good time for us to finally get some Guitar Hero songs (now that the replacement discs are heading out) and sets up for Rock Band (which we know is coming).
February 22nd, 2008 at 8:45 pm
STORAGE!?!?!?!
February 22nd, 2008 at 8:46 pm
Clarifying: I have nothing against SD cards but Ninty has to have some sort of plan regarding storage…right?
February 23rd, 2008 at 5:54 am
I think some one has mentioned this before, but will this encourage developers to make games which are 90% complete.
February 23rd, 2008 at 10:41 am
Jeez, some of you guys will never be happy with anything… Months ago we were all crying about the absence of DLC on the Wii and now you’re upset that games will be shipped 90% complete? Last I checked Gamecubes still work, sell your Wii and plug in one of those.
February 23rd, 2008 at 11:58 am
I’d like downloadable content, but I don’t want to have to worry if it’s going to fit in the tiny allotted storage space.
February 23rd, 2008 at 1:56 pm
This is terrible. >:[
February 23rd, 2008 at 2:57 pm
This doesn’t mean all DLC will cost money does it? I surely hope not.
February 23rd, 2008 at 11:34 pm
What’s DLC? downloadable content? GDC?
February 25th, 2008 at 6:36 am
i totally share vinnys concerns