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Nintendo Network on Wii U and 3DS provides for user accounts, DLC

Well, they’re a bit late to the party, but the new Nintendo Network is finally giving Mario fans the same online presense as those on Sony and Microsoft platforms.

Satoru Iwata unveiled Nintendo’s new online strategy at an investor presentation today. The Nintendo Network will allow for “competitions and communication among users, as well as the sales of digital content,” said Iwata said. The network will exist on both the 3DS and Wii U.

On the Wii U, the Nintendo Network will support multiple personal user accounts per system, and digital sales of both retail content and DLC on the 3DS and Wii U are possible. “This concept was built into the design of the Nintendo 3DS, and we already have the necessary infrastructure,” Iwata said. “We will prepare the same infrastructure for the Wii U. However, we have not decided the concrete timing of when we will start it.”

When it comes to DLC specifically, Nintendo already has a strategy in mind for content. “Nintendo believes that its packaged software should be sold to our consumers in a form so that the consumers will know in advance that they can enjoy playing the software they purchased just as it is,” Iwata told investors.  Any Nintendo DLC will provide “additional structure in which those who love the game will be able to enjoy it in a deeper way for a prolonged play time,” he asserted.

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