No free third party apps for eShop

[Joelcool7]

TomaTito said:

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?

Nintendo does not want free third party aps for a very simple reason. When third parties start launching free software consumers might be drawn to download the free software rather then buy Nintendo or third party content. Nintendo is seeing whats happening on I-Pad/Phone and computers. Free to play games are stealing market share from expensively developed software, infact free games are a bigger threat to Nintendo then the cheap 99cent games found on phones.

So Nintendo is going to ensure that all content on its systems cost money, a minimum of 200Y is good for Nintendo and third parties who actually sell content. No free games is beneficial to developers who work really hard on their software. Nintendo needs to maintain profitability and if gamers can play free games why would they buy Nintendo's online games for example?

Nintendo is trying not to compete with itself. On 3DS and WiiU Nintendo wants to ensure that all software is profitable for them. They don't want to have to compete for your dollar on their own system. It wouldn't be a smart buisness decision to allow free software to be made availible from third parties.

That includes free DLC or content transfers!