“As I said earlier today, we announced during the latest Nintendo Direct that the completely new 2D Mario game, “New Super Mario Bros. 2,” will be launched in August this year.
With this software, we will initiate the so-called digital download sales, or the digital distribution of packaged software, in addition to the sales of packaged software through the existing distribution channels. In principle, starting from this software, the company will offer the software titles that Nintendo itself publishes in both packaged and digital download formats so that our consumers can choose the way to purchase them.“
For the Wii U, we will start the digital download sales of packaged software that I just discussed, so our consumers can choose either the packaged version or the digital download version of the same software from day one of the Wii U’s launch.
This is good news – and about time! I wonder if Nintendo will follow Sony's route and demand the price of the digital download be a few dollars less than the cost of the retail game.
Glad I have a reason to buy bigger SD cards now. 🙂 Great news!
Indeed! 32GB card time!