Remember that Japanese Love Plus gamers where going to be charged 200 yen for the ability to import their girlfriend data into the upcoming 3DS title? The pricing seems to be out out of Konami's control.
The data import is done by first downloading a program from the eShop. According to 4Gamer's latest report on New Love Plus, Nintendo currently does not offer third party companies a way to distribute free programs through the e-Shop. So, Konami set the price to the lowest possible pricing tier on the service, ¥200.
The eShop does have some free software, of course. The DSi Ware transfer program and Spot TV program are available as free downloads. These are all Nintendo product, though.
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Couldn't Konami implement the importing inside the game or as DLC? It just seems like paid DLC content to me.
Nintendo... you said this new generation was about giving options... so, why no free third party apps?
