New Details on Nintendo's Deluxe Digital Promotion

I do not care about the Wii U. Please do not cover it and spend your time on other games.

@Deusoma: I agree completely. The only time I ever buy digitally is if there is no other option. If I don't have the physical media I feel as if I don't actually own the game. Also there is nothing to add to my game collection wall.

neat

Ugh. Aside from this being a gigantic ripoff, it's not a good sign to see the console manufacturers putting such emphasis on digital stuff right off the bat. An all-digital gaming scene is a gaming scene 100% controlled by the companies whose priority is forcing you to spend as much money as possible, and any step towards that scenario is a bad one.

It seems awesome and all, and Mario U looks fantastic, but yeah you know money and stuff.

Well that's good, still rough around the edges but at least Nintendo is taking initiative in accommodating their consumers through digital distribution. Not getting a Wii U at launch because of Christmas shopping but I hope that when I do nab one, they have similar incentives or a more refined system for their digital media.

Hopefully theres a chance to get the deluxe package next year, I'm not buying one till Bayonetta 2 and The Wonderful 101 come out.

@Kiro: If you're talking about the whole philosophy of rewards programs as being flawed, then yes, that's certainly a possibility, but there is inherently a flaw in considering exact value propositions and the worth of things when you're talking about dollars being spent. The worth of something is subjective, a consumer either spends the money, or they do not.

There probably exists a kind of psychological manipulation that comes along with a rewards system where the more money you spend, the more money you'll get back and accrue in return. But this entirely depends on whether the customer was informed on what they were purchasing, and whether they were satisfied with it after the fact. If both those factors were met, then the rewards are icing on the cake, if not, then you might feel as though you were lead by a carrot on a stick. Either way, anything that might be considered a "deal" is relative; the answer could be to make the product cheaper, but this has no bearing on whether the rewards program would still exist.

a step in the right direction.

so I am guessing after two years anyone can buy into this service regardless of what system package they bought?

@SirShandy: It is the absurdity of the "reward" when you look at the cost of obtaining it. It has nothing to do with Wii U or Nintendo. This whole rewarding costumers petty "gifts" for spending a shit load of money on a product is stupid. why not just making the product cheaper in the first place, instead of giving you the illusions that they are "giving" you a reward.

@Warchief said:

that is cool and all but the main problem is you have to buy a WiiU.

Yeah, that's kinda the one thing keeping me from partaking of this amazing deal.

Has Nintendo said that you'd actually be able to run games off of the expanded storage from SD cards and USB harddrives, or are they going to do the bullshit from the first 3 years of the Wii's life where you need to manually move things around and keep them on the console's internal storage?

that is cool and all but the main problem is you have to buy a WiiU.

@jasondesante: Wii VC and WiiWare games will transfer to Wii U, but I believe the handheld/console releases are still separate.

@Dark_Lord_Spam said:

32 gigs really doesn't seem like enough to support a robust digital market, though. I think I'll be waiting for the first or second hardware revision.

you can use a third party hard drive as storage up to 3 TBs IIRC

32 gigs really doesn't seem like enough to support a robust digital market, though. I think I'll be waiting for the first or second hardware revision.

Slightly interesting, Nintendo really know how to make the easy money.

@Hailinel: It's funnier because the image right next to it says 349.99.

@clush said:

@yoshimitz707: At a certain point anything can become a 'real' word. That doesnt mean it's a good thing... Those responsible for incentivize becoming a real word should be shot.

Thank you. I worked briefly as a web developer at a marketing company and that's all I ever heard them loudly tote over the open concept partition wall that did nothing to give us developers a distraction-free place to work. "How can we incentivize this?", "we need to incentivize the viewer", etc. My work suffered as a result.

That roughly equals out to getting a free game every 10 new games you buy. Not too bad. Wii U is looking phenomenal.

@yoshimitz707: At a certain point anything can become a 'real' word. That doesnt mean it's a good thing... Those responsible for incentivize becoming a real word should be shot.

@Haruko: Putting their first party games online day-and-date and giving incentives for buying them digitally instead of from a physical retailer doesn't sound like "kicking and screaming" to me.

Despite the fact that the vast majority of Nintendo customers don't even give a shit about buying their games digitally, Nintendo is really getting behind the eShop, which (on the 3DS at least) has come a long way since Wii/DSiWare in terms of the quality of the games, the store interface, and how Nintendo deals with small developers.

Nintendo really does suck. They just don't get it.

@clush: Incentivize is a real word, duder.

Incentivize? Really, guys? I object to verbifying nouns willy-nillily. Also, simply using 'encourage' or something would make it sound decidedly less like you're some kind of scheming evil corporate mastermind.

Joking aside, I don't think a 10% discount with a lot of smallprint sounds that great. You can probably get the games for less than that from amazon or other webshops. If they're really serious about making people use teh eShop, I think they'll have to do a little bit better than this.

@Katkillad: Even if you didn't use a proper HDD you could manage to put in more than 32gb of flash storage in for not a huge cost increase. Storage will be an issue on the WiiU if they're finally planning to move into the digital age and accept that full modern game downloads, not just ROMs, are an actual thing. Especially if they make the same mistake of not letting you run things off of SD/external drives like was an issue for the Wii's first 3 or 4 years.

Shouldnt they be doing stuff like this for the white one?

Not sure if this is going to be good or not yet.

There's nowhere to pre-order this, though. Not at least without being gouged by those low life third-party sellers on eBay and Amazon selling pre-orders for 2x the MSRP.

This is a half step in the right direction. Make the program available for all your customers.

With all of this incentive to buy online, one can only hope something like the compromise of PSN a couple years back doesn't happen. Also, the cross compatibility between Wii U and 3DS is pretty cool.

Main stream gamers today really disappoint me. Nintendo offers you a small rebate if you buy your games digitally, and all people do is bitch about it? They didn't have to offer anything at all you know.

i really hope that since I own certain games on my 3ds....that I will automatically own them on wii u....if they don't do that I'll be fucking disappointed....bought too many virtual console games on the wii I'm not gonna do that again unless it stays with me forever, because if not I'll stick to a hacked wii with the full virtual console library (because that is basically the greatest thing of all time)

Ahh Nintendo entering the Digital age Kicking and screaming and trying to claw their way back.

@Kiro: I don't follow your logic. A person usually doesn't spend a lot of money on a new console and some games for the sole purpose of taking part in a rewards program. This is purely an incentive for digital buyers. If you're spending money on something you want anyway, why not accumulate a couple dollars back to spend on further content? I don't see a downside to this.

It's completely fair for people to not be too fond of the Wii U, but at the same time, these people are not likely to be read up on a lot of the relevant information concerning it, which is also understandable. But this means that they are making generalizations and churning their irritation through their own ignorance.

It's looking like one of the brighter aspects of the Wii U is going to be it's digital content besides the first party retail downloads. There are already a lot of interesting digital downloads announced for it from day one, and a lot of talk about the indie-friendly environment Nintendo has created on the e-shop.

Oh boy! That's savings almost as good as a Gamestop used game!

@Kiro said:

Sweet!

I'll only have to spend 400 dollars on a console, and 50$ on a game to get FIVE DOLLARS FOR FREE? well sign me up!

350 dollars*

Hmm, wish they would have said this when they were still available for preorder. I choose the 8gb on purpose, but this would make me switch :(

Sweet!

I'll only have to spend 400 dollars on a console, and 50$ on a game to get FIVE DOLLARS FOR FREE? well sign me up!

Anyone know if this goes for the UK Zombie u Deluxe package? The one that comes with the pro controller?

@thebunnyhunter: The full details can be found here: http://ddp.nintendo.com/. I don't know why @patrickklepek didn't post a link :\

Patrick made a simple typo in the article, making the deluxe out to be 50 dollars more than it actually is. Honest mistake, or dastardly scheme to destroy Nintendo? You decide.

He really oughta fix that, though.

That's way better than the rewards Microsoft gives us on Live, so I'll take it. If I bought a Wii U that is. Because I'm probably still not getting one this year.

@Katkillad: If you're paying $100 for a 250GB HDD you're getting ripped off big time. 32gb is tiny and asking for a little more inside the machine is not demanding at all. The WiiU discs themselves have 25gb of storage ffs. It's dumb.

Seems like an awesome deal to make all that online registering worth it. 

Yes let's keep pointing out and complaining about the hard drive space. I am upset the Wii U doesn't have 250gb hard drive and costs $100 dollars more because of it. If only there was a way to use our own external hard drives for the Wii U which would be cheaper for consumers...

:rollseyes:

I don't think that the Wii U has what it needs to compete with the current consoles, especially with the next gen console announcements right around the corner.