Japan's eShop Gets Its First Demos

Wow, cool. I'm really looking forward to seeing some demos, I wanna play the Dead or Alive demo :3

Looking forward to playing some demos in the near future. Hope to see lots of demos appear on the Wii U as well.

I'm curious about the size of these demos — I'm thinking I'll have to upgrade past that bundled 2GB SD card soon.

Is there only ever going to be 3DS demos, or is there a possibility of DSiWare demos?

Give us a demo of DOA and Ridge Racer please

6 demos at once? Great start for 3DS demos! Now just have to wait till they come here also.

Lucky D:
It is unfortunate that the demo's are limited, but if after 30 plays you arent buying it then it's fulfilled its purpose. Otherwise you would be able to just get free bits of good games to download and keep and play whenever you want.

I could so play the MH demo more than 30 times... I know I did the same with MHFU before I bought it D:

I wonder how the whole "download in Sleep Mode" thing works that was mentioned in Nintendo Power?

YES! That means it's coming to the U.S. soon! MH3G Wo0+!

Monster Hunter....../cry........

limited number of plays? are they crazy? they´re only demos!

Man if only they still have the Mega Man Legends 3 Demo that would been cool. Sad that the game was cancelled.

why is it those japanese get all the good stuff first anyway?

Love demos monster hunter 3G please:)

Monster Hunter 3G Demo, please. :3

@Heavy_Barrel Ridger Racer is good, just get it if you've played previous game.

"limited number of plays? are they crazy? they´re only demos!"

Exactly, they're only demos. I haven't played a single demo ever that warranted playing /30/ times but not enough to purchase the game!

If you've hit that limit you should really just go buy the darn thing.

Monster Hunter does not need a demo.

Give us Mario Kart 7, Super Mario 3D Land, Dead or Alive: Dimension, Starfox 64 3D, Kid Icarus: Uprising, Animal Crossing, Resident evil: The Mercenaries and Resident evil: Revelations Demos!!! PLZZZ!!!!

i'd be so thrilled to even be able to download a MH3G demo... i'm getting a $99 Wii for xmas just to play Zelda, MHtri and Xenoblade, but i'd still buy MH3G on launch if it sees a NA release

With the exception of Shin Chan, that's a good list if demoes right there. I hope we get a list just as good.

We wahnt demus too

While demos of games such as Super Mario 3D Land, Mario Kart 7, and Shinobi would be much appreciated, I don't like the 30 play limit. Hopefully they'll remove it for the US release. As much as I want that to happen, I sadly doubt it will.

Sweeeeet Things are getting good for the 3DS. Nice Move Nintendo

I cant wait for the demos in the USA!!

Ive heard the Monster Hunter demo is also 20 mins long, so 30 plays at 20 mins is a stonking 10 hours of FREE Monster Hunting action. Seriously, if you have spent 10 hours with a demo of a game then you are probably going to buy it.

Does the 3DS play the DS demos from the Wii? I assumed it did as the system seems like a DS w/ many improvements but since everybody is making such a big deal out of demos maybe not?

In all honesty, I think 30 plays is too generous on Nintendo's part. Should limit it to 10 plays, encouraging people to actually buy the game rather than rinse the demo.
If someone doesn't like a game enough after 10 plays to actually buy the game, chances are that they're not ever going to.

@joco84 as an onlive user i know on some games a 10 minute demo isn't always the best because of length intros

What's the size of the Download? If I have to buy a new SD card for every demo then I'd just buy the game.