- Iwata clarified that “add-on content” means both add-on content and an item-based billing system
- November update will allow for micro payments to buy items and add-on content directly within a game
- Iwata on Nintendo’s DLC plans: “Nintendo will also likely next year in some form do this [offer add-on content], in a form that would receive support from the customers.”
- Iwata reminded us of the Q&A session from Nintendo’s July earnings briefing, where he’d mentioned as an example add-on stages that were developed with full creative force
- Iwata has been hearing that third-parties are planning on using the new transaction system early next year
- He called this system “the new Nintendo e-Shop framework”
- Nintendo has no plans to offer item-transaction titles like the ones found on social networks
- Iwata on Smartphones/SNS as promotional tools: Nintendo announced the Nintendo Direct presentation two days before its broadcast on Twitter; viewership was on the magnitude of hundreds of thousands
