Today during his panel, Takashi Aoyama, Group Manager for the Network Administration Group of Nintendo revealed that the company will soon be allowing Wii games to have downloadable addons. The addons would be paid for with Wii Points and will be available for both WiiWare and store bought disc games. No details on how users would store these addons was announced however.
The other news Mr. Aoyama announced was the introduction of, "Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection Pay And Play." This service is on a game by game basis and will have a red logo on the box to indicate that it will cost additional. No games were announced, but Mr. Aoyama said that this would only happen to certain games.
I’m fairly shocked with this move since Nintendo has always been touting their free service from day one. I wonder what type of confusion this will create with normal consumers, even in light of the red logo being introduced. Would you pay to play a game? More importantly, how do you think Nintendo will address the rising concern about storage on the Wii?
My #1 concern is storage -PLEASE ALLOW SD CARD PLAYBACK OR PROVIDE SOME SORT OF HDD SUPPORT!!-, followed closely by #2 of making me pay to play online with others, paying extra to use something built-in to the game, console and network.
srsly wtf, I hope this doesn’t means we’ll have to pay to play online or we’ll get half assed games like katamari for the 360, which was too short and had lots of "downloadable content" and by downloadable content they actually mean locked stuff that is already in the disc but you’ll have to pay more for it.
I don’t care for pay to play that much AS LONG as it’s a one time fee. No monthly garbage.
And I’m hoping for an HD support or something the Wii can access from ingame, say flash drives by use of the USB port(s) in the back.