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Nintendo 3DS eShop expands to PC, Smartphones
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In Nintendo's Semi-Annual Financial Results Briefing, company president Satoru Iwata has detailed the future of the 3DS eShop. According to Iwata, eShop content will soon be available for purchase from PC and smartphones, though it will still only be playable on 3DS. The feature will not be available in the upcoming system update, but is on the way in future firmware.
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"At the beginning, you will not be able to directly purchase software from your PC or smartphone. Instead, you will need to take a photo of a QR code at the Nintendo eShop by using the camera of your Nintendo 3DS," Iwata wrote, describing the feature. "The Nintendo 3DS will then open that specific page of the Nintendo eShop. That function is already included in the upcoming system update for the Nintendo 3DS. In the future, we will make it so that you will be able to purchase software by using your PC or smartphone."
Iwata also detailed other new eShop features, including add-on content for existing titles. Once a title has launched, players will be able to download new content via the eShop. Players will also be able to set the system to perform passive downloads, so software downloads can be completed while the system is in Sleep Mode.
The eShop will also receive software demos, allowing publishers "to provide the owners of Nintendo 3DS systems with demo versions of their software, for which they can put a limit on the number of trials."
More information is expected to be contained in Nintendo's Q&A session from the briefing, which will be released in the coming days.
