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“We’ve decided to distribute a KH3D demo in North America as well as Japan. You can play part of Sora’s scenario in Traverse Town. So if your friends haven’t played it yet, you can recommend it to them. And of course, give the co-op mini game Flick Rush a try.
Also, an unannounced title is being prepared as well, though it’s something lighter.”
Square Enix director Tetsuya Nomura promising an eShop trial for Kingdom Hearts 3D and a new mystery game, according to a Famitsu Weekly interview.
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Demonstration of what happens when a 3DS demo expires. The Nintendogs demo (added yesterday) is limited to 10 plays, so DMGICE’s Philip Wesley ran it down to see what happened.
Spoiler alert: you get funneled into the eShop to read about the full version.
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Metal Gear Solid 3D demo this Thursday
It’s rare that we know about an eShop release date before it happens, but Konami announced today that the Metal Gear Solid: Snake Eater 3D demo will hit the North American eShop this Thursday. This is where I admit that I’m thinking about buying a Circle Pad Pro in advance of this demo…
If it doesn’t work out, at least you can play this rad Metal Gear Pushmo puzzle!
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Resident Evil: Revelations demo hits 3DS eShop in U.S., Europe tomorrow
Several weeks after demos appeared on the 3DS eShop in Japan, the free trials will finally debut in North America and Europe, starting tomorrow with Resident Evil: Revelations (Europe will also get a Cooking Mama 4 demo). The U.S. will receive a Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games demo next week, too.
In press releases sent out today, Nintendo also promised to deliver limited trials for Metal Gear Solid: Snake Eater 3D, Rayman Origins, and Rhythm Thief & the Emperor’s Treasure — release dates for those will be revealed later.
Meanwhile in Japan, 3DS owners will receive a second demo for Theatrhythm Final Fantasy some time in early February. The final game will have downloadable songs.
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[Via Andriasang, Image via HeatheryingNL]
While we’re waiting for ANY DEMO EVER to arrive on the US or EU eShops, Japan just got another one, for Ace Combat Assault Horizon Legacy. If this is anything like Ace Combat: Assault Horizon on consoles, it’s a game that really needs a demo, as it’s hard to convince people to buy a new Ace Combat game in 2011/2012 without giving them a concrete, playable reason.
This is a really restricted demo, unfortunately: it’s limited to just three plays. Is Nintendo/Namco really concerned that people are going to replay a demo over and over instead of buying stuff? Clearly they are…
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[Via Inside-Games]
With the additional demo infrastructure coming to the 3DS eShop, companies may, possibly, hopefully start actually putting some damn game demos on there. Capcom is already expressing interest.
“We’re in talks with Nintendo about that and I agree, I think that would help sales a lot,” said Capcom’s Christian Svensson, regarding a demo for Resident Evil: Revelations. “For that to happen we need to get permission to use a larger filesize than demos currently are allowed.” So there’s a size restriction on demos, huh?
If Capcom really wants to address fans regarding a Resident Evil 3DS game, it should release a demo of the file management screen, amirite? Unless it’s the same one from before…
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[Via Siliconera]
Super Mario 3D Land demo! … At Best Buy
Want to try out Super Mario 3D Land a few weeks before it ships? You can right now at your local Best Buy, which should have playable demos for Super Mario 3D Land and several already released 3DS games.
Apparently, these are only available at Best Buy’s 3DS public stations, and not as downloads through the retailer’s useless Nintendo Zone service. Will that WiFi 3DS app ever be anything but a disappointment?
Subtitled Bravely Default app, augmented reality, and up-skirt shots. This footage was filmed off the free preview app Square Enix released via the Nintendo 3DS’s eShop in Japan. It starts off by showing the gorgeous Akihiro Hino-designed graphics in a mostly non-interactive area.
Afterward, there’s an augmented reality segment featuring the game’s primary female character asking for your help, Princess Leia-style. Naturally, people are taking advantage of this feature to look at the poor woman’s underwear.
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Whoa, remember the Wii’s Nintendo Channel? How, like, you could load up DS demos to stream to your system via Download Play? Well, while we were all busy forgetting about it (and I don’t mean this in a “hurr dust off your Wii” way, only that the Nintendo Channel demo service got into a rut for a really long time), Nintendo has posted a demo of Kirby: Mass Attack.
This is definitely the kind of game that benefits from a demo; after all, you might like Kirby games, but that’s no guarantee you’re going to like a side-scrolling action-strategy game thing.
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[Via GoNintendo]
Capcom may not have decided to go forward with Mega Man Legends 3, but it evidently liked the “paid 3DS demo” idea it was going to use. On Thursday, the Japanese eShop will update with a downloadable version of “3D sound” adventure game Nazo Waku Yakata’s first chapter. The “demo” will cost ¥200, which… you know what, is fine. If this is what it takes for the concept of 3DS demos to get a foot in the door, so be it.
The Nintendo page says that online delivery of a second chapter remains undecided. It would be crazy if this game ended up the first full 3DS game available digitally, through a piecemeal release. (It won’t.)
Also on the eShop in Japan this week: Let’s Golf 3D and Nicoli Number Puzzle Kakuro. Next week, Nintendo will release a 3D Classics version of Twinbee (sweet!), Arc Style: Jazzy Billiards 3D, and Vector Racing. Two original 3DS downloads in a single week!
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Auto-downloads for 3DS demos considered
Along with automatic system updates, Nintendo wants to make 3DSes automatically download demos, too, in order to encourage gamers to try out new titles.
Nintendo president/CEO and Iwata Comics star Satoru Iwata explained the strategy at an investor meeting:
“When Nintendo would like to ask users to try a specific new game, we should deliver it to their Nintendo 3DS, and possibly Wii U, with their prior consent and recommend that they just try it and, if they like it, they can pay for it. In this way, we need to introduce users to unknown products.
Consumers are likely to be convinced to pay about 5,000 yen for a well-established franchise product, but not all the people are willing to pay a certain amount of money for an innovative but unknown product. Now is the time to prepare for these situations.”
This sounds great — really, I’m just happy to hear that demos haven’t been abandoned and are still on the way for the 3DS. This is actually a similar set up to what Sony is doing on the PlayStation 3 for PS Plus subscribers, pushing demo downloads and installations to users’ systems.
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[Via Gamasutra]
Piracy?: Downloading DS demo ROMs
Monday’s release for Ghost Trick’s new downloadable trial reminded me about the clumsiness of DS demos — the norm for almost everything Nintendo does online.
Even if you have a Nintendo DSi, downloading one of the few demos Nintendo offers each week requires a Wii and a series of steps to transmit the game from the home console to your handheld. And if you decide to shut off your portable or play another game, you need to re-download the demo to try it out again later.
Why is the selection of demos so limited? Why is it still such a pain to download one? Any why can’t I keep the demo on my DSi’s internal flash memory or an SD card?
There is a solution to all three of those problems with DS demos, but it’s either piracy or very close to it.
