Nintendo working with third-parties to bring Wii U games to the eShop
Nintendo has said that it’ll be looking to make retail games made available through digital means at the Wii U’s launch.
Surely most, if not all, first-party titles will be available on the eShop. As far as third-parties are concerned, Satoru Iwata has said that Nintendo currently is discussions with such companies to bring their releases to the online store.
Iwata told investors at a Q&A session during E3 2012 last week:
As we’ve shared with you previously, for the Wii U hardware system, from the beginning, we’ve planned to make it possible for people to release their games as either an optical disc or as digital content. So publishers would be able to choose from both of those options.
Currently, we are in discussions with the publishers by sharing with them our offer in this area. Through that process, if publishers accept it as reasonable, games in the digital format will be available from the launch time. There are no technical restrictions.
