3DS’s delayed eShop will make amends.
The 3DS’s digital download store won’t be available when the new handheld launches on Friday as Nintendo wants to make sure it doesn’t make the same mistakes it did with both the Wii and DSi’s online shopfronts, according to the system’s creator.
“The iterations that we’ve had before – for Wii and DS – to be honest, we just haven’t been as satisfied as we would like,” Hideki Konno admitted to Gamasutra.
“It’s browser-based, and to be honest, the ease of use wasn’t what we wanted, and I don’t think that anyone has been pleased with the user response. And I don’t think that people have been using it as often as we want. And being able to, again, easily go into it, look around and purchase things. Again, it just didn’t work out quite as we were hoping.