Love Plus save transfer utility set at minimum price of 200 yen.
http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/27448
Third parties are currently unable to offer free software on the 3DS's eShop.
200 yen ($2) is the minimum price that third parties can set software on the eShop, no matter the type of software. Konami is developing a software tool that allows players to transfer game save data from their DS dating sims, Love Plus and Love Plus +, to their upcoming 3DS edition, New Love Plus. Since the free option is not available, the currently unnamed tool has been set at the minimum price.
This limitation explains why game demos, such as the one for Capcom's Nazo Waku Yakata, are set at 200 yen. Nintendo's own software is not subject to such limits, as titles such as Pokédex 3D are available for free. WiiWare demos are also offered without charge, but the process for the Wii Shop is handled differently, highlighting already released games.
Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has spoken on several occasions about dangers of lowering the value of software, particularly naming mobile and social platforms. Games on such platforms are typically priced much lower than on Nintendo systems, even free, though quality often suffers.
Since the eShop is only on the 3DS at the moment, and the Love Plus 3D game is upcoming, as in hasn't come out yet, then why don't they just include the software tool in the actual game release since no one is gonna want it anyway unless they are buying the new upcoming game?
At first glance through this article, I was actually prepared to defend Nintendo a little bit, because while not allowing free software on their service is stupid it's also something that has been done in the past by platforms like the 360. Microsoft's taken a lot of flak from gamers in past for things such as Valve wanting to put out DLC that was free on the PC, but Microsoft forced them to charge for it on Xbox LIVE.
Since the eShop is only on the 3DS at the moment, and the Love Plus 3D game is upcoming, as in hasn't come out yet, then why don't they just include the software tool in the actual game release since no one is gonna want it anyway unless they are buying the new upcoming game?To do that, they'd need to be able to have a 3DS card save a program onto SD card/system memory. I don't know if Nintendo has enabled that sort of functionality.
Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has spoken on several occasions about dangers of lowering the value of software, particularly naming mobile and social platforms. Games on such platforms are typically priced much lower than on Nintendo systems, even free, though quality often suffers.
I'd like to know what Iwata thinks about overcharging for horseshit software.
Since the eShop is only on the 3DS at the moment, and the Love Plus 3D game is upcoming, as in hasn't come out yet, then why don't they just include the software tool in the actual game release since no one is gonna want it anyway unless they are buying the new upcoming game?To do that, they'd need to be able to have a 3DS card save a program onto SD card/system memory. I don't know if Nintendo has enabled that sort of functionality.
The market and the consumer will determine their worth. We have the power!
Hmm, couldn't it be done with the 3DS's RAM and hot swapping the game paks? Sort of like in Monster Rancher Playstation 1 games where you swapped in random CD discs to generate monsters? I assume all New Love Plus needs is to copy a small amount of save data from the DS Love Plus games.Possibly, yeah. Reportedly, Nintendo had to get involved to make this happen, so I assume they're already doing something not normally possible.
If it IS going to be changed in the future, then strike up another one for the gloom'n'doom gaming media.
Rumors become perceptions and perceptions become peoples' reality. Sad state of affairs.
but they shouldn't be priced at all. they are demos.
Even if they took the price of the demo out of the final release, it wouldn't matter, because I don't want to pay for a game demo.
The market and the consumer will determine their worth. We have the power!
No we don't. Thanks to Nintendo's price controls.
