Coming from a Nintendo customer service rep...
A unified account system will be implemented later this year with the launch of the Wii U. Eventually this same account system will be made compatible with Nintendo 3DS systems. At this time we have no additional details to offer and nothing to indicate how or if this will work outside the United States and Canada. In the meantime, if the system has a problem, taking it to an Authorized Service Center will maintain the Nintendo eShop account. If the system is stolen, we can transfer the account to a new system once we are provided with a valid police report.
Of course, you asked this question because of the upcoming launch of New Super Mario Bros. 2 in retail and digital formats. What you need to know is that the digital format will only be available in the United States and Canada. We have nothing to announce regarding Latin American availability. NoC customer service member, David Marshall
Well, that's a huge bit of information that I haven't heard. Unless I missed this while roaming the floor of E3, I'd say this is great, new info! Thanks to Felipe Mac Knight for the heads up!
A unified account system will be implemented later this year with the launch of the Wii U. Eventually this same account system will be made compatible with Nintendo 3DS systems. At this time we have no additional details to offer and nothing to indicate how or if this will work outside the United States and Canada. In the meantime, if the system has a problem, taking it to an Authorized Service Center will maintain the Nintendo eShop account. If the system is stolen, we can transfer the account to a new system once we are provided with a valid police report.
Of course, you asked this question because of the upcoming launch of New Super Mario Bros. 2 in retail and digital formats. What you need to know is that the digital format will only be available in the United States and Canada. We have nothing to announce regarding Latin American availability. NoC customer service member, David Marshall
Well, that's a huge bit of information that I haven't heard. Unless I missed this while roaming the floor of E3, I'd say this is great, new info! Thanks to Felipe Mac Knight for the heads up!
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One question: If I delete a game that was digitally downloaded from the SD card, it will be possible to download it again, no?
Just a random report:
New Super Mario Bros. 2 was listed at R$67,00 brazilian reais ($32 dollars) in the brazilian E-Shop, but nintendo oficially canceled the price and we are waiting right now for the new price...
@spellsinger if you bought it from the e-shop then yes
...So I'm guessing the WiiU's monetization part will suck as badly as the 3DS eShop: Adding money in $5, $10, and $20 intervals, and paying a sales tax that drives game prices over the the even-dollar mark.
I'm not 100% sure but I think that counts as part of the US in Nintendo's eyes.
Anyway, with both Wii and 3DS I've had to "lie" to the console and say I live in the US so I can access most of the stuff. It seems they've recently unlocked the e-Shop in my country (Chile), but I still use the US one so I get coins on Club Nintendo.
Strange... In Brazil I can access the eShop and the information, in Portuguese, is that the game will be available in 19 August for R$67,99.
Very strange...
A picture from my 3DS:
http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/1240/3dse.jpg
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid ... =3&theater
Actually, Nintendo made a mistake, they are fixing it
Look here: http://wii-brasil.com/noticia.php?id=39075#title
I am from and live in Costa Rica, we have the eShop here, but is emputy, yes totally emputy just a few trailers... So my 3DS y setup to my address on Miami (long story) that is linked to my Club Nintendo account, with the Wii U will be the same and thanks God I will be able to link my 3DS account to my Wii U account, finally I will lost this fear that if my 3DS broke I will lose my $100+ downloaded content....
Yep, the price are wrong and Nintendo Brazil quick change it.
But the game will be available in Brazil for download. How the Nintendo customer service don't know that?
READ IT!
The game will be digitally available only for USA and CANADA.
If this is true, I'm not gonna buy anything until the service comes to Latin America.
You are wrong! The game will be DIGITALY avaliable in Brazil too! Nintendo Brazil said:
"A Nintendo informa que houve um erro na eShop brasileira referente ao VALOR DA CÓPIA DIGITAL do jogo Super Mario Bros 2. O valor oficial do jogo será divulgado em breve".
http://www.baixakijogos.com.br/noticias ... -no-brasil
The site wii-brasil is a trash. Don't believe in them.
Hm... maybe yes. But we are Latin Americans too, we must considerate what this canadian said...
Who knows... maybe they'll just fix the price and release anyway...
"We have nothing to announce regarding Latin American availability"
There goes any chance I actually care for eshop then... Hopefuly PCARS is not digital only.
Also, "valid police report"??? They dont even support my country, how could I provide something they consider valid? Well, hopefuly I never have to do that.
so...does Mexico counts as Latin america or North america? just curious
@Bobbuffalo
Latin America, at least for NOA.
If you try to buy something while being short on money, there will also be an option that allows you to add just what you need to buy something. I was $0.16 short of buying VVVVVV cause of the tax and it let me just add that 16 cents.
@Triforce of the Gods
Really? That's good to know. I couldn't believe how inconvenient Nintendo made the payment options, but this actually makes it sound much more reasonable.
set your zip code to be a state with no sales tax (delaware is what I use) and you don't get charged tax.
and they already have an account system. club nintendo tracks your digital purchases just fine. If they impliment it in a way that is both functional and consumer friendly is another matter.
Do I have to provide a police report to google when I get a new phone? No, I just sign into my account, re-download my stuff (which I can do from my phone or the google play website right to the phone)
when I build a new computer do I need beg and plead with Valve to get all my steam games on my machine, nope, I just log into my account and download them, easy as pie.
heck, I can go to my friends house, log into my steam account there and download a game to his computer, and as long as I am logged, in, who cares.
Buy once. Play anywhere. That's what nintendo needs to get on board with.
Good to hear. What I'd like to see is cross-platform play for VC titles. The 3DS should be able to handle anything up to the N64.
this. They are leaving serious money on the VC table. I think that in a few years they will release a "Virtual console" Console. That just plays VC games. and your VC games will be "play anywhere" on what device supports that emulator.
Imagine it...
you buy something the size of the SNES JR that had cart slots for N64, NES, SNES, GB, and GBA? AND had wireless versions of controllers(which would also work with wii/wiiu?) YOU BET YOUR ASS YOU WOULD. I'd pay over 100$ for that piece of hardware.
also, it should also connect to your (currently non-existing) nintendo account and play any VC game you own.
fuck.
that would be awesome.
also, it copies your saves from your carts, to on board storage, so you don't have to worry about batteries and things. They could also release a "Virtual console handheld, that is basically like the bottom half of the 3ds, but bigger screen, and just plays VC titles.
Goddamn, they would have more money than god.
too bad Nintendo has to screw up in something
even if they have intentions mark my words they will mess up in it.
You don't even need funds on your account. You just go to the product you want to purchase, click purchase, "add funds", and if you add funds using a credit card there is an option at the bottom saying "Required amount only" so you only pay for the exact amount of the game. There was an update months ago that fixed that at the same time when you could save your card details with a pin. Not too sure if they bothered to do it with the Wii Shop though, haven't found anything released on there worthwhile in a long time.
Yeah, that's the thing I meant. It even gives an option to not save your credit card number after the purchase for those who are worried about it getting stolen if Nintendo ever gets hacked.
I wonder how linked they'll be. Will some games work on both platforms?
I'm not sure. It seems like they'd have to unify their Emulation Process and have save states across all game versions. This would mean updating A LOT of games. I doubt it's worth it to Nintendo to do that.
they could just move to cloud saves or "streetpass" style transferring of saves between your wiiu/3ds. Their save state files should be the same across emulators (all nes saves states should be the same format, all snes, all n64, etc). I'm sure they internally have a tool that can target code to either wiiu/3ds, so making the emulators work shouldn't be that much trouble, unless they really are as technically incompetent as I think they want us to think they are. and I bet dollars to donuts the wiiu OS is 3dsOS v2.0.
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