NintendoWare Weekly: Nintendo Videos for sale, Double Dragon

Do you like the short clips available on Nintendo Video, but wish they wouldn't randomly disappear from your system when new ones come along? Starting today, Nintendo is offering a selection of previous Nintendo Video shows from DreamWorks, downloadable from the eShop for $2 each.

It's sort of like buying an episode of your favorite TV show on iTunes, we suppose, if that episode was five minutes long and only viewable on a 3DS. Kind of weird, but at least it's an additional option.

In other news, Double Dragon! The ... Game Boy version!

Double Dragon (Game Boy)

WiiWare

Fish Tank (iFun4all, 1-4 players, 500 Wii Points): Match-four puzzler about catching fish in a net.

3DS eShop

Double Dragon (Game Boy) (Aksys Games, 1 player, $3.99): Billy's fight to rescue Marian, in beautiful black and white.
DreamWorks Animation Halloween Collection (Nintendo, $1.99 each): "The Pig Who Cried Werewolf," "Night of the Living Carrots," and one more video TBA.

DSiWare

Castle Conquerer - Revolution (CIRCLE Entertainment, 1 player, $4.99/500 DSi Points): RTS in which you fight an evil "empire" in a medieval-ish setting.

Reader Comments (44)

What are you doing, Nintendo?

@remakeyourself
We'll find out what they're doing in tomorrow's conference.

@ColorblindMonk

Yeah, I'm bracing for another stock drop.

@ColorblindMonk

Answer: not much!

2 bucks?... for forgettable content that we already saw free of charge?

@Tab So unbelieveable, you had to say it twice? Yeah, I read it twice too. :( I do hope for some awesomeness coming out of tomorrow's conference.

@NetOperator Wibby
The first comment was free. Reading the second one will cost you 2 bucks.

They are selling us advertisements for $2 each? Wow,who wasn't begging for this?

@Hoops

Who knows maybe they're aiming for people who are really into the Blue Man Group? You know, Blupies.

@Hoops It's not like they're trying to sell all those Red Bull ___ videos. The DreamWorks shorts have actually been pretty entertaining.

@ratchet92
Yeah, those ones at least weren't ads like the trailers/Discovery ones.

I might be being overly optimistic here, but I feel like this probably has more to do with DreamWorks wanting to charge for the videos than Nintendo. Hopefully anyway... *crosses fingers and hopes this doesn't become a trend*

So they designed an app that deletes videos automatically so they can charge you for them later?

@CoconutSkittle
Mind you, they do repeat these videos constantly.

While most of them aren't worth even repeating or even owning, some of them are rather worth it. Other than the obvious Dreamworks shorts, you've also got the artistic videos... that I can't remember their odd names.
But honestly, some of them are great in 3D and some of them are just downright good videos - worth it for those who want to keep them.

Flipping idiots. Nintendo hasn't a clue apparently...

Come on 3DS... there are some great games coming out for it but the road to it is more like a path covered in dog poop and glass and you have to eat the dog poop and glass.

@Undulation
Fear Factor: Nintendo?

I dont feel strongly about these videos either way. Im suprised people do.

@TwEE

Same here. I barely read this and go *shrug*. Then in the comments I see people go ADRGDRGTBDFBCGBCGBBHJJDR%^&$%!!

Can't I just go to Youtube for free? I mean did it suddenly become 1998 where you paid to use the internet by the hour?

@Faceless Troll
Some of the videos people would want are exclusive for the 3DS (not released on dvd, website, or anything else)........... which makes it difficult to find on youtube. Actually ridiculously difficult, I've found out.

@blahblah55 The question is, why would anyone want these videos?

@Faceless Troll
I personally liked the Dreamworks werewolf short. Definitely worth owning just to watch at my convenience - and for anyone else who wants to borrow my 3DS.

Forget the videos, Double Dragon is where it's at. The Gameboy version is surprisingly good.

@Sarge

The 3DS is proven without a shadow of a doubt how awesome the GameBoy family was during its run. It's always a treat going back to that system.

But...Fish Tank...

@Sarge

Are you kidding? They can't just "forget" about those videos, finding Nintendo stuff to get their panties in a bunch over is like a sport to them.

Who cares about Double Dragon if there's some random video thing you can use as an excuse to go "oh gawwwd nintendo, you're sooooo dumb!:"

Okay seriously now, who is at the damn wheel over at Nintendo?

I have no reason to buy those videos. I've seen them once already.

> Buy videos that were free
ಠ_ಠ

@Shadow Hog
Or you could just not buy them...
They'll repeat anyways.

It really is strange how things differ from site to site.

In one site, you see people hating on Nintendo Power and not caring if it goes away - in this site, there were a surprising amount of Nintendo Power supporters who weren't even diehard Nintendo fans...

In several other sites, you see people wishing they could keep certain videos they've seen in Nintendo Video and were willing to dish out $1.99 for them (considering that's as low as eShop prices can go) - making this news VERY good news. In this site, you see tons of people who find this news absolutely preposterous - with a mixed bag of those who never cared for Nintendo Video, or those who have never seen any Nintendo Video.

Not saying it's blasphemy that many of you think that way - just saying that the culture here is very different from other sites.

Are these videos on youtube?

I love how people give Nintendo crap for it but it's the same thing other companies like Apple does.

@Baha05 2 bucks on itunes will buy you an hour episode of a tv show or some full movie rentals, this is hilarious bullshit in comparison.

@Baha05 Um Apple does nothing as lame as this.

@(Unverified) Uhh yeah they do, they charge for pretty much the same "Free" TV shows, movies, music videos. It's no different from what Nintendo is really doing.

WiiWare in two words: Fish Tank

Like Wii's VC, looks like Ninty's giving the overlooked retro games a chance to bask in the spot light, though briefly. They're not going to put out all the best GB games in one week, and it will take a little while til we see some good eShop exclusives.

Double Dragon on GB is pretty sweet though. One of my favourite GB games. But I have the original cart and no intention of buying it again.

@yomachaser Except you know Nintendo needs some kind of profit, it's not like they are Apple and have other revenues.

It's really unfair of Nintendo to force us to buy these videos that we don't want. I wish they'd give us a choice on what we can spend our money on.

@SonicRift Does Nintendo have you at gun point?

@SonicRift They're making you buy them? Are the Nintendo ninjas going to go get you if you don't?

I'm in EU and Double Dragon has been in my eShop since eShop was like two weeks old...
Never downloaded it, thought.
And on the other hand, we haven't got Netflix yet.

NintendoWare Weekly: Nintendo Videos for sale, Double Dragon

Double Dragon (Game Boy)

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