[February 21, 2013]

Nintendo News: Nintendo Download Highlights New Digital Content for Nintendo Systems

This week's Nintendo Download includes the following featured content:

• Nintendo eShop on Wii U^™
  • Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate - Demo Version - Discover the epic world of Monster Hunter as you journey through more than 200 exhilarating quests, battle larger-than-life monsters and create hundreds of weapons and armor. Hunt with your two AI companions in single-player quests or team up with up to three friends in four-player online battles. Visually stunning HD graphics deliver a unique and stunning world for players to explore, and with the addition of online chat, this is the best Monster Hunter experience to date.
  • F-Zero^™ - Speed into the future with the first installment of the F-Zero^™ series. Originally released on the Super NES, strategy will play a big part in this classic game as you choose between four proton-powered hover cars and race across 15 courses filled with challenges and pitfalls. Find shortcuts, elude hazards and snag power-ups if you want to beat the competition. F-Zero is the second game released on the Virtual Console for Wii U to celebrate the 30^th anniversary of the Famicom. For a limited time, the game will be available for only 30 cents.

Also new this week:

• Trine 2^™: Director's Cut - Demo Version (Nintendo eShop on Wii U)
• Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate - Demo Version (Nintendo eShop on Nintendo 3DS)
• Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed - Demo Version (Nintendo eShop on Nintendo 3DS)
• Yoshi^™ (Nintendo eShop on Nintendo 3DS)
• Etrian Odyssey^™ IV: Legends of the Titan (Nintendo eShop on Nintendo 3DS)
• Picdun 2: Witch's Curse (Nintendo eShop on Nintendo 3DS)
• Viking Invasion 2 - Tower Defense (Nintendo eShop on Nintendo 3DS)

To view this week's Nintendo Download in its full graphical version, please visit: http://news2know.net/nintendo/downloadE28Uwd2p.php.

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 titles weekly to the Nintendo eShop for the Wii U system as well as the Nintendo 3DS and Nintendo 3DS XL systems, to the Nintendo DSi^™ Shop for the Nintendo DSi system and to the Wii^™ Shop Channel for the Wii console.

The Nintendo eShop is a cash-based service and features games, applications and videos. Users can add money to their account balance by using a credit card or by purchasing a Nintendo Prepaid Card at a retail store and entering the code from the card. All funds from one card must be redeemed in either the Wii U eShop or the Nintendo 3DS eShop, respectively. They are not transferable and cannot be divided between the two systems.

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^™, which can be purchased in the Nintendo DSi Shop. A Wii Points Card^™ and Nintendo DSi Points Card^™ can be purchased at retail locations. All points from one card must be redeemed in either the Wii Shop Channel or the Nintendo DSi Shop, respectively. They are not transferable and cannot be divided between the two systems.

Remember that Wii U, Wii, Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo 3DS XL and Nintendo DSi feature parental controls that let adults manage some of the content their children can access. For more information about this and other features, visit http://www.nintendo.com/wiiu, http://www.nintendo.com/wii, http://www.nintendo.com/3ds or http://www.nintendo.com/ds.

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