Digital Makes Up 14% of Key Nintendo Franchise Sales

Well we all want some good download software from the eShop, but when all they offer is GB games of course their sales will climb...
I'm not suprised by the 14% - if anything I was expecting higher.

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I'd say another "Nintendo Life Favorites" section in the eShop should do the trick.

I want to say that the last numbers I saw with Sony and Microsoft put their Digital Sales vs Retail Sales in the 40% Digital and 60% Retail range. Now that retail games are releasing on those platforms at a discounted rate, I expect that number to start to climb even higher over the next year.

Digital sales bring in tons of revenue and Nintendo is missing out on easy money with their lackluster online store(s).

I think that visualization is backwards. Or the "=" should be a ":"

I thought it would be lower to be honest.

@5. they're long dots

@7. Oh, that makes sense.

@NintyFan But what if Nintendo was developing new Nintendo games for their downloadable services? Wouldn't you buy a new 2D sidescrolling Mario or Metroid game?

It's not exactly about what Nintendo is doing, it's more of what their not doing instead. Nintendo could generate more digital sales than any of it's competitors, but they don't strive for it. If Super Mario 3D Land can sell 500,000 copies at retail, imagine what a New Super Mario Land (speculated name of course) would sale on the digital front?

yeah. Missed opportunity. People buy Mario and Zelda because they're good games and Nintendo designs great stuff; no one cares if it's digital or retail. IF digital was truly a priority they could develop more major releases for download, cool nintendo 'apps', achievments, games with online play, and actually advertise them and offer demos and gift games to new users. The sales would roll in; they just aren't doing it, and they'll have to to stay relevant. I can't get on a bus or train without bumping into sony/360 game advertising (chicago) but I have NEVER seen a Nintendo add (except Wiifit). where is it?
Put one NEW 2d mario game on WiiWare, advertise it like the retail ones and watch every single person with a wii buy it. (big savings on production). they never did, never took it seriously.
think about it.
New super Mario wii could have really been a fully 2d download game priced at about $20 and everyone on earth would have bought it (with simplified cartoon graphic style). The online purchase is arguably even more secure than the disc of it that was copied and had more ROM downloads than any game ever, which hurt sales.
I know that's not their business model but it works if it's taken seriously. When you learn to focus on a separate line of download titles that are smaller with shorter dev time and less production cost it means more purchases faster. it also leaves opportunities for more levels, content and features for long term cash-in that the consumer also loves. Nintendo loves the old model of one Huge game at a time because it works, but when it doesn't it fails hard. Gotta put some of those eggs in another basket.

The occasional sale would be nice.

How are those long dots? O.o

ok cool well on eshop,i care for gbc games to be there and other stuff 4 eshop and bout the 3ds games,ok cool nuthn else 2 say.

Want to boost digital sales? Release games people care about. Yeah yeah, I know what you guys will say. "Look at this game and this game and this game! People care about those!" Sure, there are a couple good releases, but the rest are trash. We need more games that are actually good!

Seriously! Nintendo should hire teams dedicated to releasing a lot more digital only proprietary titles! I understand the line they walk. Too much, and you'll overkill your characters. It just seems too little right now. Also, the games featured every month are often the same games over and over again, simply placed in different menus. It needs to be easier to view older dsi ware games without having to filter search for them. The average person is not going to do that. At least, have a "what's old is new" section. Feature the first 20 dsi ware games, and the next week feature 21 to 40, and so on. Repeat this cycle when it completes. Regardless, something need to be done. Also, how about new videos to purchase? Halloween ended over a month ago!!!!

Demos and sales, as well as more games to choose from would greatly increase the revenue generated by their digital store.

@flowerpoints
It could also be an analysis based on the quote itself because these journalists do make new ideas that connect to the quote.

I would like to think that Reggie hyping those numbers means he grasps the potential value in releasing more digital content. Which, in turn, could lead to more VC!

I think there’s no big hope for the Dsi-Shop anymore. On the Wii Ninty could only make some more money with releasing more VC games. Added online would interest more people in the VC games and if you can easily transport them to the WiiU there’s no reason not to start with that right now.
For DSiWare it would surely help if it were handled like 3DS Ware or 3DS VC games instead of being restricted to a small number of games on your system and all the micromanagement that comes with it.

The eShop is a quite big step in the right direction. It seems that games are being advertised to 3DS owners on a regular basis now.
I think there are more opportunities to make people visit the eShop though. While the program to get Kid Icarus for free is great there could be small, free downloads for SM3DL and MK7 on the eShop. When you downloaded ‘em you’re directly greeted with a link to another eShop game you might like _{and don’t have yet}.
Or they offer a free app in the vein of Personal Trainer: Walking _{(aka Walk with me! Do you know your walking routine?)} and port it to the 3DS. In my opinion the pedometer is the main casual feature of the 3DS and could interest quite some people.

@NintyFan (9.) and @Slapshot (10.): While you’re ideas are great and I would love to see remakes or new games in the vein of Metroid 2, SMB2 and Zelda 2 I couldn’t help but be amazed by the quality of NSMBW. I doubt they would reach the same greatness with a downloadable game. I don’t know if an episodic game would feel good either.

Lastly from an old comment of mine:

• Have as many demos as possible. This is the best way to convince people that they want the _full game.
• Give it all that you've got. There are a lot of people that can't stand the monochromatic GamBoy games _anymore. If there was an option to play these games with the palettes the GameBoy Color or the GBA offered it would most likely mean more sales.
• Enable wireless multiplayer play for every VC game that originally had a multiplayer option. I'd download a lot more of these if they had multiplayer options.
• Start releasing VC games of the platforms that already have been announced (Game Gear and TurboGrafx-16). Otherwise people might give up on the 3DS’s VC because they think there’ll never be games in colour.
• I'm sure GBA and SNES games would sell very well in the eShop.
• We already know that NES games can be bought in the eShop one day. I've got quite some NES games on the Wii's VC and won't pay the same price for them in the eShop again. I would think about spending some cents per game for being able to play it on my 3DS though. Or i'd spend about 20 € if i could play all of my Wii's VC games on my 3DS _{and maybe vice-versa. Think about it as some kind of reversed GameBoy Player.}
• I cannot understand why us owners of a credit-card have to put more credit on our accounts than we need at the moment. Let us pay only for the game we want please!