Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime indicates that they are letting developer charge for DLC. The update to the 3DS will be coming to enable the sale of downloadable content during December.
“We’re interested in it to the extent that it makes sense to the consumer,” Fils-Aime said. “In terms of what the next system update will allow, it will allow developers to sell add-on content, and whether that’s for a physical game or a digitally released game.”
“In terms of how it will work, it’s up to the developer whether they want to make it to buy new levels, new items – all of that is up to their imagination,” said Fils Aime. “Essentially, what we’re doing is creating the framework for those transactions to happen.”
Nintendo has offered free DLC for like new puzzles for Professor Layton games or and challenges in Mario Kart Wii and Fils-Aime indicates they will continue with that policy.
”I’ve had this conversation with a number of our key developers, and their mentality is, ‘Reggie, when we sell a game, we want the consumer to feel that they’ve had a complete experience.’ Now, in addition, if we want to make other things available, great, and we’ll look at that,” He continued. “But we’re unwilling to sell a piece of a game upfront and, if you will, force a consumer to buy more later. That’s what they don’t want to do, and I completely agree. I think the consumer wants to get, for their money, a complete experience, and then we have opportunities to provide more on top of that.”
Source: AOL
