Among all of the excitement around the launch of My Nintendo, gamers in Europe and PAL territories can also see another promised feature in action - the option to purchase over 2000 games from the official website, with those downloads then sent automatically to their system.
We've already tried this out through My Nintendo itself, where a message at the top of the screen advised that Flipnote Studio 3D is available for free in Europe. Clicking through a few pages and providing our Nintendo Network ID login details (we were already logged into the new Nintendo Account) completed the process, and shortly afterwards our 3DS had automatically downloaded the app.
That infrastructure is applied more broadly on the official Nintendo site across Europe, however - we tested it with the following random titles on the UK-based site, covering the Virtual Console on Wii U and 3DS and a recent Wii U 'Nindie' game, all with the option to buy along with integrated details showing what you'll get in terms of My Nintendo rewards. As you can see, one choice falls just below the threshold for 10 Gold Points, while the 50% Star Fox 64 discount doesn't exclude it from the £8.99 bracket.
What is lacking, we'd suggest, is a nicely designed eShop-style web platform - at present you can only browse the 'Games' areas found through Nintendo's official websites or search for a game by name. It's also worth noting that the availability of a lot of smaller games is still rolling out in Nintendo of America, but as it was the NoA press release that cited over 2000 games being available to buy online for automatic download we expect it to kick in very soon.
It's terrific to see that download titles of all sizes and prices now have an extra avenue to earn sales. Perhaps a future step will be a presentable online eShop as a dedicated website, however, to mimic the approach taken by the likes of Sony with PSN.
Another step in the right direction for Nintendo, that much is certain.
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Where is Link?
http://www.nintendo.co.uk/Misc-/Nintendo-eShop/Nintendo-eShop-Nintendo-3DS-and-Wii-U-109605.html
^ There's the link
Miitomo is live!
Is this option also out for US?
The Eshop website is still awfull. I can't even find it without a direct link. I hope it gets better in the futur.
MyNintendo site is actually great.
@Kokusho It's easy, just go to www.nintendo.co.uk and go to the bottom. Click on the Nintendo eShop icon (it's the second one between Nintendo Direct and Miiverse) or Nintendo eShop under Misc.
Sooooooooo wich store do I buy outta to get coins?
http://store.nintendo.co.uk/digital-downloads/wii-u/all-games.list
http://store.nintendo.co.uk/digital-downloads.list?widget_id=158398
Links that will actually take you to the pages
Just went to on the website there,hoping to purchase a few games.I clicked Starfox 64 thinking I could add it to a basket and check out when I've finished shopping like you are able to on every other website for the last decade or so but no,you have to proceed to checkout with every single purchase.This wouldn't be a problem if I never got charged £1.50 international visa fee for every transaction.What a joke!
@samuelvictor Those games aren't out yet. Release dates are TBD. But it is weird how those are the first one that come up. This is not properly done. Page 2 should give you better results, since those titles are in the eShop.
Weird that Nintendo put this out half baked. At least you can search titles and find them that way.
@OorWullie For Starfox 64 try this link http://www.nintendo.co.uk/Games/Nintendo-64/Star-Fox-64-1093854.html
@PALgamer Thanks but I already found the game page no problem,my issue is you need to proceed to checkout for each game you want to buy instead of just adding it to basket so you can continue shopping and pay for them altogether when done. Every website I know does this,my own website does this,it's the most basic of features,.I planned on purchasing 4 games through there today but if I want to I'll have to pay 4 separate visa card fees instead of 1.
FYI, this is also how you redeem your free download for Flipnote Studio.
https://www.nintendo.co.uk/Games/Nintendo-3DS-download-software/Flipnote-Studio-3D-763095.html
If you visit the page for a download software you already own, sadly there's nothing akin to a "Claim Gold Coins" option.
When I tried downloading Flipnote 3D and login in to my account the page kept crashing. Gave up in the end. Any advice?
The rest of the improvements, I am very happy with!
@OorWullie
Isn't that a basket at the top right side if the screen? Or maybe a basket's not available in your region?
@Vee_Flames Yep,it appears to be anyway. Unfortunately there's not one on the UK site,at least that I'm aware of.
@Vee_Flames That's the UK Official Store http://store.nintendo.co.uk/
@PALgamer yeah, I noticed that... where's the link to the new digital store?
@Vee_Flames Click on 'games',then 'all Wii U games' and it will take you there,strangely to a page of games that aren't even out yet.
@samuelvictor I just went there again and instead of Color Splash at the very top I've now got "The latest title in The Legend of Zelda series (working title)" with Color Splash below it.I agree mate,it's a bit of a mess.
They need to just scrap their UK site, and start again. I suggest putting the store into my.nintendo.com.
It is just so messy, full of old pages, links everywhere which take you to places which don't seem like the same site at all.
They definitely need to at least seperate the "shop" into its own section where you dont randomly bounce back and forth between things.
I clicked on "view all wiiU games" and ended up on sort of news search page??
It's all very exciting!!
@samuelvictor @Vee_Flames @OorWullie The Nintendo Official UK Store is actually a store of physical goods, therefore only boxed retail games are sold there.
Is the online eshop available in NA yet I can't find it?
@HeroOfCybertron Actually, it's not really the eShop, simply told, the already existing game pages have been updated with the option to buy the game, with the reward in gold coins if you do so and apparently the terms and conditions for the sale, everything else is the same as before!
@Mister_Wu So the only thing they did was add an option to buy certain games with My Nintendo Gold Coins in addition to a credit card which was already available, correct?
I thought they said the new store will be accessible from within the E-shop too or did I read that wrong?
The UK site is clearly not ready,the MyNintendo tab that's been added at the top disappears when you go into the games page.I hate to be negative but I expected a lot better than this.
@HeroOfCybertron In Europe, simply the possibility of buying a game from Nintendo's preexisting games' sites with Nintendo Network credits (it was not possible before, you had to go through the consoles' eShop), plus they tell you how many Gold Coins you get. If you want to use the coins instead, you have to go to My Nintendo site.
@OorWullie The fact is, there isn't a store at all, in the end they just updated the preexisting game pages (which is good in a sense, the Super Mario Advance 4 and Super Mario Bros. 3 pages still state that the Koopalings are Bowser's children, with the Super Mario Bros. 3 page even stating that they are natural children )!
@Mister_Wu I really expected there to be a new look store,even an E-shop app perhaps.I thought one click on a bookmark or app and I'd be taken to a fancy looking modern store,that's easy to browse and filter and make purchases on.Instead we've got the same old clunky unintuitive website with an added option to purchase.Half the filters on the games pages dont even work.
I must say though the Super Metroid page has some awesome background art.
@OorWullie See, everyone is happy with this choice now
I noticed that with the New 3DS Virtual Console titles there is the option to buy either one of the two versions, but not with traditional 3DS games (e.g. Super Mario Bros. 3), could someone confirm if cross-buy is present in the latter case (non-SNES 3DS VC titles)?
Um, why doesn't the eShop link on the webpage take you there - hell why can't you find these titles on the Nintendo Online shop, or in My Nintendo - why aren't these all just one website!!!!???
Wonder how many years it'll take for them to open a dedicated website.
Wasn't DeNA supposed to be giving Nintendo a hand in dealing with this? And what state were things in before they decided that they needed the extra 6 months to finish things up?
It's worth noting that going to the web browser eShop nets you 30 Platinum coins in addition to the ones you earn by using the console eShops. You don't get notified and it's not a visible mission, they just appear in your account after you've gone to the page and logged into your NNID.
@Mario_maniac Thanks mate. You also get 10 platinum coins for clicking the block in the lower right section of the page.
Wish they'd let you browse apps and demos and then set it up so they'd download automatically on your system
Ouch, the 'Offers' on the UK site are terrible. Suppose I shouldn't be surprised at this point.
"Among all of the excitement around the launch of My Nintendo, gamers in Europe and PAL territories can also see another promised feature in action"
Not true. Not all PAL territories have this at launch. Later we will though.
"Purchasing downloadable software from the Nintendo webiste is not available at launch in Australia/New Zealand."
http://www.nintendo.com.au/support/mynintendo/faq
NintendoLife does not give any fudge about Australia so NintendoLife did not mention this. I am not surprised.
Does this website for eShop purchases actually exist for all European countries or is again some localized crap? Since I can't seem to find anything else except the direct link to Flipnote Studio 3D.
I am from Finland and we have a localized Nintendo webpage done by the Nordics distributor Bergsala and it does not have any shop interface so is there some generic shop site for European customers? I'd like to try out if there is some shopping cart functionality for multipurchase or do we still need to buy each game separately one by one.
Could NintendoLife please do a really detailed guide for the website eshop as it seems only the American website was properly updated?
Why couldn't they just open one shop under www.nintendo.com and then from the account locale determine the currency etc.
Or do www.nintendo-europe.com/eshop or something like that and make that for all European countries.
I can find some games to purchase digitally through the nintendo.co.uk website, but it's really difficult to find anything and navigate. The american website looks amazing compared to the UK/European one.
Wow! The UK version really is pretty crap compared with the US one.
On a positive note, I like that you receive the number of gold reward points based on a title's original price, not its discounted price (e.g. I bought Star Fox 64 yesterday for £1.50, or something like that, as I already had the game on the Wii and I still received the 10 gold points for it!).
@mrchills @Daemonite @Flanktwo here ya go! http://www.smashbros.com/images/og/link.jpg
@Uberchu thank you
@Kamalisk
It's exactly like that, the European/UK site is a total mess. The old pages are still there, the confusing UK official store is there and both it and the "eShop pages" have download purchase links which doesn't make any sense.
Shibata & co. really need to up their game, because this looks like cheaply done crap.
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