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Beginnings of a Web-Based eShop Discovered

by Patrick Barnett - October 13, 2014, 7:00 pm EDT
Total comments: 4

Is this a prototype of a soon-to-be browser-based eShop?

A keen NeoGAF user has discovered what is potentially a web-based eShop.

The page (eshop.nintendo.net) links to a site that as of now only allows you to navigate through pages relating to download code redemption. Users were able to enter a download code and have the appropriate title download automatically to their system. The system can do this because the site links to your Nintendo Network ID like the web-based Miiverse client. Other users reported that the functionality was only active for certain regions.

While this is not an entire eShop setup, it may be the groundwork for a larger move to an online store, following up on plans dating to 2011. Nintendo will likely continue working on building this service, however, we may not see the fruits of their labor until they are ready to officially unveil a product.

Talkback

famicomplicatedJames Charlton, Associate Editor (Japan)October 13, 2014

Bang on time!


*checks watch*
Wait, it is 2011 right?

Damn it I need some new batteries!




And so do Nintendo.

Jonnyboy117Jonathan Metts, Associate EditorOctober 14, 2014

I'm glad to see they are finally delivering on this promise. Hopefully, it will lead to a faster version on 3DS (that thing takes quite a long time to come up, even on the new hardware). Wii U handles it much better.

azekeOctober 14, 2014

eShop on 3DS was web-based from the start. That's the reason you couldn't exit from it until it downloads all the icons.

And it's usually a bad idea to do it this web-based instead of natively because you will have to keep full fledged web-browser just to show a rows of clickable icons.

azekeOctober 14, 2014

Seems to be live for NA, check out Tropical Dong for example:
http://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/PlnaGzC3eiJePbHz30UN7sDpcwfWAXVp
Buy digital button leads here:
https://checkout.nintendo.com/#/item/WUPNARKE/billing

They specifically mention you can gift codes that you get that way.

And that if you input your NNID, they can push the game onto the console.

And it works for preorders.

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