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Suke on 15 August 2013
MDMAlliance said:
RolStoppable said:
The information you extracted from Gamasutra articles and Nintendo PR is wrong. In other words, you are misunderstanding and misrepresenting it.

Nintendo's digital business sure is growing, but it's still a far cry from their retail sales. Obviously, niche games benefit much more from digital sales, because there are no problems with availability in stores.


Although I would say the general premise of the information is correct.  Nintendo has seen some great successes with their digital store, and proves that there are a lot of people using it at the very least.


To Nintendo its a success, plus knowing the fact that the service is only two and half yeras old.



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FatedReality on 15 August 2013
KingdomHeartsFan said:
FatedReality said:
Suke said:

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/198393/Nintendos_new_strategy_for_the_3DS_seems_to_be_working.php

 

Nintendo digital sales have been a huge success, starting off with Fire Emblem: Awakening, the digital version sold more then the retail version at launch. Then when Animal Crossing: New Leaf was release, that's where eShop lift off, managing to sale over 500k on the first week in the US. As the Wii U tend to have a week sale per quarter, it eShop sales says other wise. Nintendo manage to gain impressive sells of the Wii U eShop thanks to game like Earthbound.

If Nintendo is able to make a deal with Activision and have Cod: Ghost be release digitally, making it ten dollars cheaper, but still having that next gen engine running on the Wii U same with the PS4 and Xbone, it'll be a better value and make the Wii U look a bit more attractive. Plus, (though its not the best) free online on the Wii U version.

Ummmm if games are selling this well digitially why dosent Nintendo invest more into online? Had no idea nintendo titles sold so well digitially

He's only telling you half the story.  When FE released in most places the physical version was extremely hard to find, hell even EB Games was only selling digital codes for the game, that is the only reason the digital version sold more than the physical, if there was enough physical versions then it would have sold way more.  Animal Crossing is also just one of those games that fits better as a digital download vs a physical for the average person.

I see, it seemed odd that these games were doing better then there retail versions. Still belive Nintendo should invest more on there online services though... As for Animal Crossing it could be possible that Nintendo used each sale of the 3Ds Animale Crossing bundle and counted them as digital sales sense it came with it already pre installed.



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Suke on 15 August 2013

Update, glad to see a new indie IP (Steamworld Dig) made it to the number one selling spot in the UK.



“Don’t follow the hype, follow the games”

— 

Here a little quote I want for those to keep memorize in your head for this coming next gen.                            

 By: Suke
pokoko on 15 August 2013

See, Nintendo? The internet can be good. Aren't you glad you finally decided to try it with an open heart?



thekitchensink on 15 August 2013

Fire Emblem was impossible to find in stores at launch... went to three different local game stores that usually get everything, and all they had was download codes. The numbers are skewed.



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Lulz on 15 August 2013

I actually buy all my 3DS games digitally now. I never intended for it to happen, it just did, mostly because of the convenience of it. Would I prefer to own a physical copy? Probably, but at the same time I love grabbing a new release right at midnight off the eShop. Aside from being able to get it a night earlier than if I buy physical copies, it really is nice to be able to get the game without making a trip to the store. I have 2 jobs, 2 kids, and I volunteer at least 6 hours every single week so every little thing that saves me time makes a difference.