Nintendo News: Nintendo Download, Jan. 12, 2017: Buckle Up!

REDMOND, Wash.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–This week’s Nintendo Download includes the following featured content:

• Virtual Console on Wii U
  • F-Zero
    X – In this high-octane Nintendo 64 racer, choose from
    30 different hover-car racers, including updated versions of the
    Blue Falcon and other vehicles from the original F-Zero
    game. With five separate play modes, hidden vehicles and courses,
    and an excellent soundtrack, F-Zero X is an all-time
    classic Nintendo racing experience.

  Nintendo eShop sales:

  • Nintendo eShop on Wii U and Nintendo 3DS
    • Great deals this week include Rubik’s
      Cube, Tadpole
      Treble and Buddy
      & Me: Dream Edition, plus several more! Check out
      the full list of deals on Nintendo 3DS and Wii U available this
      week at http://www.nintendo.com/games/sales-and-deals.

    Also new this week:

    • Shift
      DX (Nintendo eShop on Nintendo 3DS)

    In addition to video games available at retail stores, Nintendo also
    offers a variety of content that people can download directly to their
    systems. Nintendo adds new games weekly to Nintendo eShop on the Wii U
    console, the Nintendo 3DS family of systems and the Wii^™ Shop
    Channel for the Wii console.

    Nintendo eShop is a cash-based service that features a wide variety of
    content, including new and classic games, applications and demos. Users
    can add money to their account balances by using a credit card or
    purchasing a Nintendo eShop Card at a retail store and entering the code
    from the card. All funds from one card must be loaded in Nintendo eShop
    on either Wii U or the Nintendo 3DS family of systems, but can be used
    in either Nintendo eShop if the systems are linked to a single Nintendo
    Network account.

    The Wii Shop Channel offers games and applications and uses Wii Points^™,
    which can be purchased via the Wii Shop Channel. The Nintendo DSi^™
    Shop offers games and applications and uses Nintendo DSi Points^™.
    Click here
    for details about the recent Nintendo DSi Shop service change.

    Remember that Wii U, Wii, New Nintendo 3DS, New Nintendo 3DS XL,
    Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo 3DS XL, Nintendo 2DS and Nintendo DSi feature
    parental controls that let adults manage some of the content their
    children can access. Nintendo 3DS players who register a Nintendo
    Network ID gain access to free-to-start games and free game demos from
    Nintendo eShop, and also get the latest news and information direct from
    Nintendo. For more information about this and other features, visit http://www.nintendo.com/wiiu
    or http://www.nintendo.com/3ds.

    Note to editors: Nintendo press materials are available at http://press.nintendo.com,
    a password-protected site. To obtain a login, please register on the
    site.

    Contacts

    Golin
    Eddie Garcia, 213-335-5536
    egarcia@golin.com
    or
    Rich
    George, 415-318-4342
    rgeorge@golin.com