Nintendo News: Nintendo Download, Jan. 12, 2017: Buckle Up!
REDMOND, Wash.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–This week’s Nintendo Download includes the following featured content:
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Virtual Console on Wii U
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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:
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Nintendo eShop on Wii U and Nintendo 3DS
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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:
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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
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Great deals this week include Rubik’s
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F-Zero