Nintendo Partnering with Green Man Gaming for Digital Offerings

I still don't get how buying a digital download through a 3rd party offers any advantage than just buying it on the console itself. Unless you've left your console on and are buying it away from home online. But even that isn't really a massive draw.

@MrGawain It will attract pepole who aren't going out to specifically buy a game and are just browsing the site, and people who want to gift a digital game to someone else

@MrGawain Plus discounts!

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It helps for those that can't buy games directly from the eshop. I can't buy from the american eshop because it doesn't accept my credit card, while Amazon does and lets me avoid having to hunt down one of the prepaid cards.

Awww SNAP! I really hope we can use the GMG daily discount codes for these! That would be golden!

Will these be available in Australia?

@DarthNocturnal if it is organised by NoE, then the download codes will only work on NOE region 3DS consoles.

Download codes are region locked since NoE can only sell games in Europe.

It'll also make it easier to buy games as gifts for people.

I'm hoping this works with Australia, as often we are the same region as UK for console region purposes. We can import UK discs here for Wii U and hopefully it's the same for eShop. GMG almost always sell steam games for cheaper than Steam, and have 20% to 30% store wide discount voucher codes virtually all the time.
And often GMG doesn't pass on the Australia tax either, although some publishers go out of their way to enforce it on their products.

@EonCow @MadAdam81 You can buy PAL download codes from sites like Gamesrocket and CDkeys.They're always around 25 to 30% cheaper than the Eshop,can use Paypal and Skrill to pay for them too.I get all my games this way now.You need to verify yourself the first time you buy from them though which can be a bit of a pain but you only need to do it once.

@OorWullie YES! thanks

I want this to happen more. It opens the way for discounts, which is currently the only drawback for me in my digital only world.

Though the eshop promotions to date have provided me with plenty of discounts, more would be better:)

Wait a minute, so this wasn't possible before in the UK? I always thought there were several keyshops (with Wii u games) in the UK and US, because AFAIK in Germany there is only one (mmoga) and Germany is always behind in this kind of things.

@MrGawain Because this way you don't have to buy a eshop card and waste the remaining amount of money. I myself bought the last big Nintendo games (Splatoon, Yoshi, Mario Maker), through mmoga. They send you the key a few days prior to the release and it's also a bit cheaper than in the eshop (like 36,99€ instead of 39,99€).

@MrGawain If they let Greenman run sales the way they normally do, ill own 3x as many Nintendo games. I bought Skyrim and Fallout 3 and something else on GreenMan for $5-7 each, collectors edition- back when those editions were still $50 in the store, and often, $30 on Steam. I think i saw the $80 Metro bundle on there for $10.

Can you imagine getting splatoon, animal crossing, etc for $10?

@DarthNocturnal Steam does have regional restrictions like Nintendo. For the same reason too, apparently.

http://www.extremetech.com/gaming/196079-valve-enables-region-locking-in-steam-to-stop-you-buying-cheap-games-from-russia

I want avgn adventures for wii U, NoA get it but UK/eur dont, they should really get their sh*t together with the downloads, good move with GMG but they should really start thinking about dropping some restrictions, Im finding myself playing snes more and more because wii u isnt providing the games I really want to play right now, bar a few gems.

I bought mine through mmoga for about £28.99; it's 34.99 via Greemangaming and the official eShop.

that is a cool idea! i just join in today and now i have a gamerocket account and a GMG account! lol

i hope they do discount like what nintendo have done in eshop