Nintendo's eShop is a Resounding Success

People complained with DSiWare and WiiWare, and Nintendo listened. With the 3DS's eShop, they not only offered a more accessible, consumer friendly and intuitive storefront, they also paced it with some great content. Games like Pushmo, Freakyforms, Sakura Samurai, Mutant Mudds, Mighty Flip Champs, VVVVV, Zen Pinball and more, all offered on the eShop, in addition to the 3D CIassics line and of course the Virtual Console, offering Gameboy, Gameboy Color and Game Gear games, along with full compatibility with the DSiWare store... Nintendo really got it right this time.

And apparently, consumers responded accordingly, if this news article is to be believed:

Analysis firm FADE LLC has just put out a report stating that the entire eShop has generated an estimated $11.1m in revenue -- this is over the course of the seven month period of the release of the eShop -- so it's not a "full" year. Funnily enough,nearly halfof 2011's entire revenue stream was generated by three two-decade old ports released in thefirst weekof the eShop. It's insane how much money Nintendo can make off ancient (yet good) games that often consist of less than 1MB of data.

Additionally, eight out of the top ten best selling titles are first-party Nintendo titles -- once again a testament to how much control the Big N has on their digital platforms. Before you start jumping up and down, note that this is an independent study and not official numbers from Nintendo. Personally, I have seven of the ten games on the below list -- how about you?

Estimated Top Selling Titles, by Gross Revenues (Annual, 2011)

1. The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (Nintendo) - 338,700 Units / $2.3 Million USD (VC)
2. 3D CIassics: Excitebike (Nintendo) - 481,100 Units / $1.3 Million USD (eShop)
3. Super Mario Land (Nintendo) - 230,500 Units / $1.1 Million USD (VC)
4. Freakyforms: Your Creations, Alive! (Nintendo) - 112,700 Units / $969,000 USD (eShop)
5. Pushmo (Nintendo) - 93,300 Units / $634,000 USD (eShop)
6. Kirby's Dream Land (Nintendo) - 84,500 Units / $384,000 USD (VC)
7. Let's Golf! 3D (Gameloft) - 43,200 Units / $356,000 USD (eShop)
8. Donkey Kong (Nintendo) - 82,800 Units / $348,000 USD (VC)
9. 3D CIassics: Xevious (Nintendo) - 47,900 Units / $301,000 USD (eShop)
10. Hyu Stone (Poisoft) - 50,300 Units / $293,000 USD

Destructoid

I'd be buying Pushmo if that damn eShop would let me add that one missing euro. I've managed to add 10 euros to my eShop account and that's it. Now it keeps telling me my credit card information is wrong and only reserves the amount from my bank account for a couple of days while the transaction never actually happens.

All castlevania games there and i'll buy.johny300

I'd be buying Pushmo if that damn eShop would let me add that one missing euro. I've managed to add 10 euros to my eShop account and that's it. Now it keeps telling me my credit card information is wrong and only reserves the amount from my bank account for a couple of days while the transaction never actually happens.

Epak_

Did you try erasing the Credit Card info and inputting all of it again?

eshop sucks

theres nothing for free the demos suck

and the whole thing is just layed out badly.

eshop sucks

theres nothing for free the demos suck

and the whole thing is just layed out badly.

free_milk

[QUOTE="Epak_"]

I'd be buying Pushmo if that damn eShop would let me add that one missing euro. I've managed to add 10 euros to my eShop account and that's it. Now it keeps telling me my credit card information is wrong and only reserves the amount from my bank account for a couple of days while the transaction never actually happens.

charizard1605

Did you try erasing the Credit Card info and inputting all of it again?

I never save my CC info, I always have to input all of it if I'm buying stuff online. I'm a bit paranoid about that stuff (got a good reason though). I love how they finally added the function to add certain amounts of money but now I can't use it. I have 5 euros waiting for me and I'm not going to spend it on some gameboy game :P

[QUOTE="free_milk"]

eshop sucks

theres nothing for free the demos suck

and the whole thing is just layed out badly.

charizard1605

How can excitebike be number two in terms of revenue? Are people willing to pay money for that game?

I had that on NES and it was awesome, but today? naa

Mighty switch force is pretty good too. Better than Zen Pinball etc. If you have a 3DS and you want to buy one and you don't know what, get Mighty switch force!

I'm not a fan of the eShop to be honest. I much prefer Live Marketplace, PS Store, and Steam store over it. That said though, they do release some juicy demos :)

Here's the problem with the eShop in comparison with PSN and XBLA. On PSN and XBLA I can actually TRY the games before I buy them(for the most part). None of the games on the eShop have trials, so I'm not going to buy them. There's many games on XBLA and PSN that I bought purely because I liked what I played. Nintendo just need to give me that option. Sales of games on eShop would be much better if you give gamers a taste of those games, which makes them want to buy them.

[QUOTE="charizard1605"][QUOTE="free_milk"]

eshop sucks

theres nothing for free the demos suck

and the whole thing is just layed out badly.

free_milk

eshop sucks

theres nothing for free the demos suck

and the whole thing is just layed out badly.

free_milk

>Nothing for free

>Therefore eshop sucks

Wut.

FADE LLC = VGChartzzzz

FADE LLC = VGChartzzzz

shinrabanshou

We need 3D Classics: Legend of Zelda, and 3D Classics versions of Mega Man and Castlevania. That would just be too good.Randolph

I wouldbuy a 3DS for portable versions of Megaman and Castlevania. I don't understand why they don't throw up more titles like these. They would sell like hot cakes, whether it be their SNES, NES, or GBA installments. It would print money baby.

[QUOTE="shinrabanshou"]

FADE LLC = VGChartzzzz

charizard1605

Estimated Top Selling Titles, by Gross Revenues (Annual, 2011)

1. The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (Nintendo) - 338,700 Units / $2.3 Million USD (VC)
2. 3D CIassics: Excitebike (Nintendo) - 481,100 Units / $1.3 Million USD (eShop)
3. Super Mario Land (Nintendo) - 230,500 Units / $1.1 Million USD (VC)
4. Freakyforms: Your Creations, Alive! (Nintendo) - 112,700 Units / $969,000 USD (eShop)
5. Pushmo (Nintendo) - 93,300 Units / $634,000 USD (eShop)
6. Kirby's Dream Land (Nintendo) - 84,500 Units / $384,000 USD (VC)
7. Let's Golf! 3D (Gameloft) - 43,200 Units / $356,000 USD (eShop)
8. Donkey Kong (Nintendo) - 82,800 Units / $348,000 USD (VC)
9. 3D CIassics: Xevious (Nintendo) - 47,900 Units / $301,000 USD (eShop)
10. Hyu Stone (Poisoft) - 50,300 Units / $293,000 USD

I came into this thread expecting to see something different than what I saw.

[QUOTE="free_milk"]

eshop sucks

theres nothing for free the demos suck

and the whole thing is just layed out badly.

NirdBerd

>Nothing for free

>Therefore eshop sucks

Wut.

[QUOTE="charizard1605"][QUOTE="shinrabanshou"]

FADE LLC = VGChartzzzz

shinrabanshou

Eshop blows. Nintendo, stop trying to maximize sales for every game. They need to just unload the snes, gb, and nes library. Also, I can't stand how your downloads are organized on the 3DS system, itself. How about instead of 10 gb games scattered about, they put ONE Gameboy icon and then go from there.

vvvvvv ftw

Eshop blows. Nintendo, stop trying to maximize sales for every game. They need to just unload the snes, gb, and nes library. Also, I can't stand how your downloads are organized on the 3DS system, itself. How about instead of 10 gb games scattered about, they put ONE Gameboy icon and then go from there.

Heirren

Pushmo purchase from me :P.

[QUOTE="Heirren"]

Eshop blows. Nintendo, stop trying to maximize sales for every game. They need to just unload the snes, gb, and nes library. Also, I can't stand how your downloads are organized on the 3DS system, itself. How about instead of 10 gb games scattered about, they put ONE Gameboy icon and then go from there.

bonesawisready5

No, I'm saying I'd rather have choice. The system has been out a year now--all the nes classics should be available. They are selling us old games, afterall.

[QUOTE="shinrabanshou"]

[QUOTE="charizard1605"] I don't follow. charizard1605

It's way to slow. Where are the SNES games? the DS games? The GBA games? So far i can only buy a few NES games and a bunch of Old Game boy games.

eshop sucks

theres nothing for free the demos suck

and the whole thing is just layed out badly.

free_milk

well thats odd... because my eShop gave me 20 free games

It's way to slow. Where are the SNES games? the DS games? The GBA games? So far i can only buy a few NES games and a bunch of Old Game boy games.

Vambran

I think I'm missing something. All I see is, yet again, Nintendo is using their new console to re-sell old games that gamers have likely already bought 20 times before. All this tells me is that Nintendo's ability to keep selling old games is a resounding success. Or that people would much rather rebuy old Nintendo games than support and/or encourage new games.

Granted, I'm being a bit sarcastic here...but still.

I think I'm missing something. All I see is, yet again, Nintendo is using their new console to re-sell old games that gamers have likely already bought 20 times before. All this tells me is that Nintendo's ability to keep selling old games is a resounding success. Or that people would much rather rebuy old Nintendo games than support and/or encourage new games.

Granted, I'm being a bit sarcastic here...but still.

ZIMdoom

[QUOTE="charizard1605"]Oh :? Why would Destructoid publish a VG Chartz sourced article, I wonder? Should still update the OP...DeX2010

Notwithstanding that, real digital download data is only available to publishers and platform holders - making tracking nigh impossible anyway.

Trying to pretend such data is accurate, is wrong. Trying to sell such data as FADEChartz does, to people stupid enough to use it for investment purposes is reprehensible.

eshop sucks

theres nothing for free the demos suck

and the whole thing is just layed out badly.

free_milk

I'll agree that it's layout isn't the greatest. As for free content, whatelse would there be? The only free content XBLA/PSN is videos and demos, with the odd game or DLC.

If the developers could charge a little less for some of the games than I would buy from it.

Yeah the eShop is getting pretty good (I'll be downloading Sakura Samurai and Dillon's this weekend when I go home) but it's still not laid out very well. You should be able to adjust it's layout exactly like you can with the Home Menu and have it display 2 or 3 rows instead of only one. That would make it much easier to look at things and scroll through the shop much faster.

Also, new 3DS systems shouldn't have to download it. When I got mine for Xmas, I had to update to the latest firmware, which included installing the eShop on my 3DS. That seems very silly when it's something Nintendo is trying to push.

[QUOTE="bonesawisready5"][QUOTE="Heirren"]

Eshop blows. Nintendo, stop trying to maximize sales for every game. They need to just unload the snes, gb, and nes library. Also, I can't stand how your downloads are organized on the 3DS system, itself. How about instead of 10 gb games scattered about, they put ONE Gameboy icon and then go from there.

Heirren

No, I'm saying I'd rather have choice. The system has been out a year now--all the nes classics should be available. They are selling us old games, afterall.

Yeah the eShop is getting pretty good (I'll be downloading Sakura Samurai and Dillon's this weekend when I go home) but it's still not laid out very well. You should be able to adjust it's layout exactly like you can with the Home Menu and have it display 2 or 3 rows instead of only one. That would make it much easier to look at things and scroll through the shop much faster.

Also, new 3DS systems shouldn't have to download it. When I got mine for Xmas, I had to update to the latest firmware, which included installing the eShop on my 3DS. That seems very silly when it's something Nintendo is trying to push.

nintendofreak_2

People complained with DSiWare and WiiWare, and Nintendo listened. With the 3DS's eShop, they not only offered a more accessible, consumer friendly and intuitive storefront, they also paced it with some great content. Games like Pushmo, Freakyforms, Sakura Samurai, Mutant Mudds, Mighty Flip Champs, VVVVV, Zen Pinball and more, all offered on the eShop, in addition to the 3D CIassics line and of course the Virtual Console, offering Gameboy, Gameboy Color and Game Gear games, along with full compatibility with the DSiWare store... Nintendo really got it right this time.

And apparently, consumers responded accordingly, if this news article is to be believed:

[Quote="Destructoid"]Analysis firm FADE LLC has just put out a report stating that the entire eShop has generated an estimated $11.1m in revenue -- this is over the course of the seven month period of the release of the eShop -- so it's not a "full" year. Funnily enough,nearly halfof 2011's entire revenue stream was generated by three two-decade old ports released in thefirst weekof the eShop. It's insane how much money Nintendo can make off ancient (yet good) games that often consist of less than 1MB of data.

Additionally, eight out of the top ten best selling titles are first-party Nintendo titles -- once again a testament to how much control the Big N has on their digital platforms. Before you start jumping up and down, note that this is an independent study and not official numbers from Nintendo. Personally, I have seven of the ten games on the below list -- how about you?

Estimated Top Selling Titles, by Gross Revenues (Annual, 2011)

1. The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (Nintendo) - 338,700 Units / $2.3 Million USD (VC)
2. 3D CIassics: Excitebike (Nintendo) - 481,100 Units / $1.3 Million USD (eShop)
3. Super Mario Land (Nintendo) - 230,500 Units / $1.1 Million USD (VC)
4. Freakyforms: Your Creations, Alive! (Nintendo) - 112,700 Units / $969,000 USD (eShop)
5. Pushmo (Nintendo) - 93,300 Units / $634,000 USD (eShop)
6. Kirby's Dream Land (Nintendo) - 84,500 Units / $384,000 USD (VC)
7. Let's Golf! 3D (Gameloft) - 43,200 Units / $356,000 USD (eShop)
8. Donkey Kong (Nintendo) - 82,800 Units / $348,000 USD (VC)
9. 3D CIassics: Xevious (Nintendo) - 47,900 Units / $301,000 USD (eShop)
10. Hyu Stone (Poisoft) - 50,300 Units / $293,000 USD

charizard1605

[QUOTE="DeX2010"][QUOTE="charizard1605"]Oh :? Why would Destructoid publish a VG Chartz sourced article, I wonder? Should still update the OP...shinrabanshou

Notwithstanding that, real digital download data is only available to publishers and platform holders - making tracking nigh impossible anyway.

Trying to pretend such data is accurate, is wrong. Trying to sell such data as FADEChartz does, to people stupid enough to use it for investment purposes is reprehensible.