Revolutionary Downloads

With all the talk of Revolution and its new gameplay elements people have been speculating, the element of downloading classic games has been left in the dust. People know its there and simply go “ok, cool”. But now what? Some have been speculating about if it’s going to cost the user or if it’s going to be free. Now what many people may have skipped over is that it will probably be neither. "We hope to establish a format where both Nintendo and [third-party] software makers will be able to make a profit by using the resources from our past." – Satoru Iwata. It’s obvious that Nintendo isn’t going to give us our games for free, but I don’t think they will make us pay.

"We believe that there's a number of ways that we can use the system, such as to offer a bonus download with the purchase of a new game, or allow some games to be downloaded during a limited time during a campaign period."- Satoru Iwata. Right now Nintendo.com is doing a promotional Nintendo power magazine give away when you register three game codes. Now for those of you that don’t know what these “game codes” are, they are game-specific codes released with Nintendo first party games. Each game comes with one code. Nintendo has actually been offering giveaways with these codes since the Zelda collector’s edition was released, which was actually the first code giveaway. So what if Nintendo used these codes as a point system. Every code grants you a game. Not only dose it give you incentive to buy more Nintendo created first party games, it gives the consumer the feeling they are getting them for free. So now we have the idea of Nintendo offering game downloads for code-points, what if you added to that with the concept of title-points. Say you registered the code for smash brothers revolution. That allows you to get the original smash brothers for the n64. It can also apply to people who bought the classic NES series games for GBA. Anybody that registered a classic NES game can download the original NES version of that game for the revolution as well as gaining a code-point for registering the game. So in short you get 2 points for some games, a title point and a generic code point which you can use to download games that maybe don’t have an applicable newer version available in which to acquire a title point for. This could be the way Nintendo is intending to do things.

-Blackmajik