Nintendo Hints At A ‘Push’ 3DS Download Service

At a Motley Fool vs Zacks investors briefing in Los Angeles during E3 the CEO of Nintendo Satoru Iwata dropped a few hints at what the 3DS will offer digitally. With the Wii having both Wii Ware and Virtual Console and the Nintendo DSi having DSi Ware the new 3DS was obviously going to have some digital input at some point. Iwata shed some light although not going into any details when he said “Of course, with a device like Nintendo 3DS, we do intend to offer some type of digital distribution.”

The most detail about this service was in a rather odd form with Iwata almost describing a stream like service “Up until now, much of the digital distribution focus has been on more of a ‘pull type’ where the consumer goes out, gets the content and pulls it to themselves. With Nintendo 3DS, we’re looking at a model that would be more focused around the ‘push type,’ where we’re able to push information or content out to the device.” With streams success on the PC would this be a good opportunity which up until now has not been capitalised on in handheld download services?

So a 3DS Ware that ‘pushes’ content to you it’s certainly different from what’s offered in the handheld market so far, but would this sort of difference make or break sales, i’m sure when we hear more details we shall find out.