Nintendo Download: 22nd November 2010 (North America)

DEMOS! xD

THE DEMOS ARE HERE!!!
THE DEMOS ARE HERE!!!
THE DEMOS ARE HERE!!!
Finally

You got tetris party live?! NOE do the right thing for Friday

Not only demos, but a VC game as well.

Just wish they just keep them in the Shop Channel, including last years entries.

YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYESS! YESYESYES! FOR JOYS!

Finally, some demos! I'll be downloading all of them.

Oh and Tetris Party Live on DSiWare?! That's going to be amazing! (Well, hopefully!)

I plan on downloading all the demos as I own none of the games. However, I an planning to get BIT.TRIP.FATE (after I get VOID, and RUNNER) and Jett Rocket. I'm a happy gamer.

Take note, Nintendo – this is how you stop gamers moaning Monday after Monday. Give 'em some demos.

I'd get Tetris Party Live if it was Tetris DS Party Live. Tetris DS was the best.

...demos? I was looking at the Virtual Console release!
...no; really.

I'm gonna get Spin Master. I've seen the gameplay on Youtube.

@MarkyVigoroth That couldn't hurt either

Is the "And Yet It Moves" demo coming here?

Finally, a good week. I'm getting Tetris and all the demos.

At least we got Spin Master. I'll DL the demoes when I feel like it.

DEMOS! Party!

TPL with online play!! Aww, can't believe I got talked into loaning out my DSi last night.

Well, at least demos will give me something to fall back on.

PENGUINS wait its wii ware ...... aw fishes

More demos! Yay!

sweet! i've been on the fence about AYIM and ThruSpace for a while now... hopefully the demos will help me to decide finally :3

I don't get the appeal of demos, but as long as they keep the fanboys happy, then I'm not complaining

It would be nice if we europeans get the "And Yet It Moves" demo", too. I'm very interested but still unsure if it's worth the money.

Big whoop, demos. But wheres mah Bonk?!

So, is Tetris Party Live a shorter version of Tetris Party Deluxe for DS?

Why is everyone complaining about the demos leaving?

Just download them now! I still have mine from last year.

Today is a good day.
I'll be trying FATE and ThruSpace soon. Maybe Jett Rocket, too, just to check out the faux-Galaxy visuals.
I wish Spin Master was on the SNK Arcade Classics Vol. 1 disc. Just found it cheap and have been loving the old NeoGeo power I always dreamt about back in grade school.
It's so nice not hearing all those moans and complaints... it doesn't even feel like a Monday, what with the relative silence of naysayers out there. Me happy.

Really pumped about FINALLY getting some Demos to games I've been curious about on WiiWare. I might make my first WiiWare purchase in over a year now!

I'll have some demos plzkthnx. Just FATE and Thruspace though, I have the other two as the full games.

What a nice surprise! Very refreshing to see a very good week. I'll be of course downloading all demos even though I own 3 of the 4 just to support the idea of demos. I'll also have to grab Tetris Party Live! What a great surprise it is to see Tetris DSi today, and with full online functionality! And to top it off, they were even kind enough to throw us a VC game. Even though I have no interest in it, its still nice to see one at all. Hopefully we get Mario Party 2 this year! Great update. Thanks Nintendo!

Eh, still nothing interesting for me...>_>

Nice, DSiWare needed its own port of Tetris, even if its a Lite version of a retail one...

Tetris Party DSiWare?! For only 500 points!!?!?!?!!! Goodbye, life.

Demos and Tetris!
This is a good Week

_{Lucky Americans, grrr.}

Yay demos!!! I don't feel like complaining today lol.

@lz: Demos are how we try out games we're not sure we want to drop money on for free. How is that NOT appealing?

VC, good. Game I don't care about (read the review, not interested), not so much. Ah, well...still beats nothing.

I hope we get tetris party live soon.

I gotta say, while the demos are free, they CERTAINLY didnt make me want to spend money on them. While the BIT.TRIP one was halfway decent, the rest are pretty laughable.
Thruspace is pretty shallow from what I saw, and would only be fun to someone who likes tetris-based puzzle games.
And Yet It Moves was my least favorite of the bunch. Im all for retro graphics, just... not BAD retro. It feels like a game that was made in 1995, and has a terribly ugly design to it. Your better off playing a free flash game.
Jett Rocket isnt really bad... its just overly simplistic. Its more of a Nerf'd wanna-be Super Mario Sunshine.
And im not saying these games are bad (Okay, maybe im saying AYIM was horrible in my opinion) seeing as how they are just demos, but Nintendo should really be showcasing GOOD Wiiware titles. Last year's choices were much better, and I still have one of the demos (Pokemon Rumble. Lol I feel poor now)
Hopefully the next batch o' demos really makes up for this.

Sweet, tetris and demos. I'm getting all my demo's this week, because they are FREE! Bit.Trip has at least two levels in the demo, i think, which is pretty sweet. I'll be playing just the demo for a while. I don't think I'm interested in thruspace after trying it, though it's not bad. Still need to get the other two.

Unfortunately, it seems I've run out of room on my Wii menu. I'm going to need to get my SD card from home that I use for my DSi to download all four of them. Why are the demos so large? They're almost as bad as the regular games (except thruspace). I wish you could get rid of the Photo/Weather/News channels. I never use them!

I'll get all the demos except for Jett Rocket which I already own (as should every Wii owner).

What a great line-up of demos! VC support is nice, too.

I downloaded Tetris Party Live even though I already have Deluxe. It's worth it just to have it on my system all the time and you can play online over WPA instead of needing WEP.

I'll be getting the AYIM demo.

You know, generally I tend to defend what are sensible business practices, but I really don't see why they don't just keep the demos up.

I'll get the Jett Rocket and Bit.Trip Fate demos.

Yay Tetris and Demos. It's a lucky day for us.

Tetris or wait until Cave Story, hmmmmmmm....
Great week.

I've downloaded all the demos, the only one I didn't play yet was "And Yet It Moves". Bit trip fate which I already planned on getting, I know I'm gonna get for sure now. Jett Rocket was solid, i'm in no rush in getting it, I might as well save thoughs 1000pts and just start playing Mario Galaxy 2 again for the extra stars. Thru space isn't worth it, it just feels like a mode that should be in a tetris game. I'll be playing "And Yet it moves" later. Next week I hope to see cave story, excite bike, you me and the cubes, bit trip runner, and art style light trax

Wow... took THIS LONG to finally put Tetris on the DSi. sigh lemme go get some DSi points so I can download it... I never thought this game was coming.

... And where's myDiary?

I'll be picking up all the demoes except Fate since I already bought that one.
Also, do I spy another Neo-Geo game that isn't on a compliation? Awesome.

About f****** time Tetris came to DSiWare. I may have to haul my Wii to a friend's house to grab the demos.

YAY FOR DEMOS
only have enough room for 2 though.

WTF Where's SHANTAE?!?!?!?!?

As a longtime lurker of this site, this will be my first post.
Kudos to the staff members at Nintendo Life for maintaining such a great site and for making it very accessible and most importantly, very approachable (even though on occasion some of your headlines are unnecessarily over the top and counter productive) and to top it all of, having a great community accompany this site.

With that said, what a great way to accompany the launch of the demo service (an ongoing demo service I might add) by also releasing Tetris Party Live and a VC game.

Seems like excellent timing by NOA to do this just before Black Friday and in effect, greatly increase demand for Nintendo Point cards ( they probably delayed Spin Master in order to coincide with what was planned for this week).

Also according to Gaijin Games, any game's demo will be available for a minimum of 4 weeks and will stay on longer depending if its rank is higher than bronze in the Nintendo Channel (in order to rank any demo in the Nintendo Channel, one must have played it for at least an hour).
http://www.gaijingames.com/?p=1838

Nothing for me, but will def download the ThruSpace and FATE demo's tonight.

Jett Rocket and AYIM for demos? Awesome!

Snowpack Park sound kinda fun, especially the word adventure got my interest. Good that you guys get demo's as well. Wish I had a demo for AYIM, would have saved me some money.

Finally a good week with VC and demos.

@NabucaCPM: Welcome to the community, then! Always nice to see lurkers sign up.

Ranking demos on the Nintendo Channel sounds like a doofy way to decide what sticks around, especially with the standard "one hour minimum play time" still in effect. These are demos, for crying out loud...how many of them seriously have that much gameplay to offer?

There's also another problem with this method...it basically means that they'll only hang on to demos for the GOOD games. Y'know, the ones that arguably need free demos less. It's a very screwy system to be sure. Why can't Nintendo ever just do something in the established way?

@NabucaCPM Yeah, our community is pretty sweet.

I thought these demos were better than the last batch because most of them didn't automatically spit you out into the Wii Shop Channel after they ended. AYIM was really cool. I want to know how it stacks up to Fluidity before I buy it.

@NabucaCPM- Welcome to NL! Hope you enjoy your stay.

Anyway, I tried the FATE demo and the AYIM demo and they're pretty cool. I was on the fence on both of them, but now I think I'll get them whenever I a.) Have more money, b.) Have more time, and c.) Have less games to complete.

Now, if only they could release a demo for Dive: The Medes Islands...

@Stuffgamer1, Gamesake, and Qwikman & Bass
Thanks for the nice welcome.

@58
"There's also another problem with this method...it basically means that they'll only hang on to demos for the GOOD games. Y'know, the ones that arguably need free demos less. It's a very screwy system to be sure. Why can't Nintendo ever just do something in the established way?"

The impression that I get from the ranking system that's been put in place, is that its mostly a side bonus instead of actually something that's integral to the demo service. What's so wrong with the better games being available for a longer time, it's not like any one demo has an advantage over another. This would purely be decided by the players and would only take into account the quality of said game. At the end of the day Nintendo is the one that picks up the tab (bandwidth fee to be exact) for the time extensions of said demos, why would they pick up the tab for demos that didn't manage to rank higher than bronze compared to those that actually did.

serdomr demos! im gonna go get thos now...

EDIT: that was a fail at typing awesome...

@NabucaCPM: Well, my point was that demos really should be kept up regardless (like both Sony and Microsoft do), and if you DO only keep some, it should, from a gamer's perspective, be the ones for the games that are less "insta-buys," therefore needing the demos more, run-on sentence.

i didn't really care to download any of the real versions of the demos that were added to the wii shop channel but i did want to try bit.trip fate n jett rocket to see what all the fuss was about....i downloaded the demos because of how people were raving about them on this website....i was shocked at how much i absolutely LOVED jett rocket (i will definitely buy it in the near future), and as far as the rest...they didn't do much for me

@Stuffgamer1

To begin with, Nintendo doesn't even collect any money from subcription fees associated to the Wii's online, and with that in mind, expecting demos to last indefinitely doesn't seem like it would make for good policy.

To better illustrate this, if demos were to remain indefinitely, first it would start with just 4 demos but by the time it reaches 20, the costs that would be associated for keeping 20 demos in place will start to add up pretty quickly week after week (one week it's 20 demos, the next 21, and the week after that 22). Eventually, when the costs associated start to become problematic, I can only imagine the complaints that would follow after NOA decides to start removing demos.

It could also be said, that with this incoming and outgoing demo system that they have put into place, that it provides a nice incentive to directly check out the Wii Shop Channel on a weekly basis, by seeing what new demo has been made available and in turn also check out the week's other offerings.

@NabucaCPM: Sony doesn't collect subscription fees on PSN either, yet demos aren't removed. Obviously, there's a cost-effective way to do it, and Nintendo simply can't be bothered.

That incentive thing makes no sense, because ideally, demos would routinely release alongside new games just as they do on other services. That way, you'd want to check the channel simply to see what's released period. If there's one thing Nintendo's failed at recently, it's giving people reason to go on the Shop Channel at all.

@Stuffgamer1
IMHO, Sony is a horrible example in regards to being known for their "cost effective" decisions. I'm sorry, but for them to think it was a good idea to lose a fortune on every console they sell and for this to go on for years on end, would seem to indicate a company doesn't have very good management skills to begin with. By extension, it wouldn't be too farfetched to consider that whatever demo service they use that it may at the end of the day, result in actually not being cost effective.

As for your second point, I was mostly referring to Wii owners who would usually check a week's downloads through a press release and that this would be a good first step to motivate such owners to access the Wii Shop Channel and see what is being offered for the week. Also if the European downloads are any indication, a new demo will be made available week after week (and who knows, on some occasions there may even be two demos offered in a single week).

Anyways, I appreciate this discussion (and not surprisingly for it to occur in a civil manner, something that can't be said of most sites on the net).

I bought this game right when it came out and its one of the best DSiWares I own... If you have another household family member, and they have the same game, you can do a voice chat in between lobbys of the Tetris game. There are 2 online game modes, duel space, and a regular tetris battle. They're is also single player. Avatars, Backgrounds, and everything you could ask for a 500 point game. But seriously, buy this. You won't regret! ^_