Nintendo stress free downloads for retro titles - 6.6.05

Nintendo's George Harrison has announced that old Nintendo favourites emulated on their next console will be available for download free of cost.

People sort of picked on us for not prematurely jumping into online or internet gaming," he mused, going on to point out that now the company has more to offer besides online gaming. Harrison then confirmed that past-gen, Nintendo-created titles will indeed be downloadable for free.

The claim will certainly bring joy to old-school Nintendo fans but Nintendo will have to do more to entice the public onto its marketing campaign if they are to catch up with Microsoft or indeed Sony in the next-gen console wars.

This is a clever move by Nintendo: regardless of the final power of Revolution and the frequency of new titles, Nintendo knows that its loyal fans will cry tears of joy over a free service that lets them download previous Nintendo classics straight out of the box.

Read the full article over at gamesradar.com

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