PSP Minis? Nintendo Responds: DSiWare Revamp

By SpookSpook81. Sunday, August 23, 2009 12:00:21 AM

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A few days after Sony announced their downloadable line of cheap games, aptly dubbed PSP Minis, Nintendo has reacted and responded accordingly. It will now begin to lower its bar to allow more publishers to develop for the platform.

Now, it is no secret that current DSiWare titles are slim (and mostly crap, unless you love clocks and calculators galore), so Nintendo is trying to reinvigorate it's handheld digital distribution platform by allowing publishers to offer titles via DSiWare with lower barriers, while keeping the same pricing currently offered (US$2, US$5, US$9). However, Nintendo still has some degree of control over the pricing of the game, mostly on file size (for instance, a US$5 game should not be greater than 200MB in size or it would be charged higher royalties otherwise).

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Comments

Rafael Luikrafaelluik Sunday, August 23, 2009 1:13:35 AM

I didn't understood, why filesize would influence the price?

SpookSpook81 Sunday, August 23, 2009 8:18:57 AM

A bigger file size implies a higher bandwidth allocation from Nintendo... after all, the games are downloaded from their servers and from their network.

Rafael Luikrafaelluik Sunday, August 23, 2009 11:27:41 PM

I guess that means the games will get more compressed and the final quality gonna sucks even more...
But I really don't wanna it be that way.. I hope the service is going better. worried

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