A full blown Nintendo DSi app store could be in the works, according to DSi developers. Nintendo wants the DSi Shop to offer not just games, see, but everything you could find on an iPhone too. Looks like Ninty wants to make clear to Apple who owns the handheld market once and for all. Read on for full details.
A Nintendo developer conference has been taking place in London this week, and sources at the event have let slip that Nintendo is pushing them towards “short-form” content for the Nintendo DSi. Is Nintendo planning to turn the DSi Shop into a fully fledged Nintendo DSi app store to take on Apple?
One source told Develop that “Nintendo is keen to have developers offering all kinds of software once the DSi store fully launches for access in Europe and America.”
If the DSi Shop is refocused as a Nintendo DSi app store, what’s new here is that Nintendo is actively looking for non-gaming apps for the download service the Nintendo DSi offers, and clearly wants a piece of the mobile app pie that Apple, Google Android, Nokia, Palm, BlackBerry, Microsoft and everybody else are gobbling up at the moment.
Nintendo hasn’t gone on record saying it’s competing against Apple in this way, declaring that it doesn’t see the iPhone and the App Store as a competitor, but a Nintendo DSi app store could be just what’s needed to get people to give up their old DSs. We may hear more at the Nintendo keynote at the Games Developers Conference in San Francisco next week, so we’ll be sure to keep you posted.
i can see Nintendo following Apples itunes and making smaller cheaper games downloadable also addons for games and extras can be purchased.
seems a good idea and i think it will catch on.
Could anybody tell me how DsiWare -ds download station works with developers?
How could sell my NDS game via DsiOnline shop? apple store more easer…