Nintendo has just announced 3 new DLC packs coming for New Super Mario Bros. 2 for Nintendo 3DS.
The first one, Ippatsu Shoubu de Dokidoki, is apparently aimed at expert gamers. The second one, Go! Go! Gold Mario, will ask players to collect 30,000 coins in 3 courses. The last one, Kiroku ni Challenge! A, again asks players to collect coins but will reportedly upload the player's score on the Internet for everyone to see. They will be released in Japan for 200 yen each, or 2.50$.
But more importantly... wait, what ? DLC FOR MARIO ? Oh boy. Some people are commenting on forums and comments that this is the beginning of the end for Nintendo, and the whole gaming industry since we're at it. I am personally not a fan of DLC, I actually hate what it has become, but let's keep one thing in mind guys, Nintendo always delivers. I do not for one second believe Nintendo would purposefully cut content out of a game to sell it to us later. If there is one company out there that doesn't make games with the sole intent of screwing gamers out of their hard-earned dollars, it's Nintendo. Of course they need to make money to be successful, but Nintendo has always put passion into their games, and it shows. How long has Nintendo taken to put their games online, or even offer any service on the Internet, when everyone else was making bank ?
I truly believe Nintendo actually will take DLC as what we always asked for. A way for us to keep getting content for a game we already bought, at a very low price (let's be serious here, 2.50$ isn't much). How awesome would it have been to get something like Secret of Mana: The Lost Chapters, or Chrono Trigger: The Story of Marle (or replace with your favorite Chrono Trigger character) ? These are DLCs we would have loved. Let's keep faith in Nintendo for now.
But if they become the next EA or Microsoft, you can be sure I'll be the first to raise hell.
When a game gets player support, I guess DLC is a good way of keeping it alive. But when a game gets DLC before launch there are questions to be asked.
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ReplyDeleteI also have a very hard time with zero-day extension DLC. If the base game was cheap, I might not mind that much, but, to me, for 50-60$, you should be getting full games. There is also free user-created DLC as it's done in LBP or Spores which is a nice way to extend the game.
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