Otakumegane said:
Honestly I see this more of an incentive to "try" the DLing of a game and experience the always-on your 3DS. Might lure more people into Digital downloads if they get to try it 1st. Not that it hurts to sell more software of course. It's a good strategy honestly. I suspect that the XL promotion with a free DLable game was along the same lines of getting people to try the Downloaded games. |
Exactly right. That, and as I've suggested already, downloading a free game you wanted to get means you have money available for another game. Nintendo are assuming, I believe correctly, that the more dedicated consumers able to take advantage of this offer will, in many cases, happily buy another 3DS game with the money they saved due to the free download.
Microsoft in particular would do well to learn from this and the PlayStation Plus offers--in ten years of Xbox Live membership, 7 years paid as a Gold consumer (nearly £300 in subscription fees), I have received only one gift from Microsoft: 20 Microsoft Points on my last birthday, roughly 17p in real terms. Dedicated fans are a very profitable bunch, and they only become more dedicated if you treat them kindly.
