Team Meat - 3DS eShop has 2 GB limit, interest in bringin...

[robometal cowboy]

Team Meat - 3DS eShop has 2 GB limit, interest in bringing next game to Wii U
Click Here to View Story

The following info comes from Team Meat’s Tommy Refenes...

“[WiiWare's] 40MB is horrible, but [3DS's] 2GB is reasonable. Super Meat Boy would have been on WiiWare if we could have had just a few more megabytes of space – you can only compress stuff so much before you have to start cutting out huge parts of your game. Unfortunately, at that point, it just isn’t worth the time.”

Refenes also expressed interest in supporting Wii U with their next game...

“If we can in the future, we’d like our next game to be on Wii U as well as everything else.”

Link

[dlf]

50x seems more reasonable, yet even that could take a long time to download if your in a hurry.

[zeeroid]

Super Meat Boy on eShop... PLEASE!?

[Chosenoneknuckles]

Well that [should] end that excuse then...

[Oregano]

Well that [should] end that excuse then...

You'd think but shortly before the Revelations demo was announced Chris Svennson said it wouldn't happen due to Nintendo's size limit.

[Mirr0rR3flection]

What the. . . .I thought the 3DS eShop games didn't have a limit. (o.o)

[The_King_Up_North]

2GB is a very fair limit. I still don't know why there are limits at all, but at least 2GB is pretty reasonable. Anything bigger might as well be a retail title.

[Serpent_Seed]

2GB is plenty. Was the Resident Evil demo even close to that? It was like 1100 blocks. how many MB is that?

[GhuttoALT]

Wow! 2GB is a GameCube game!!! lol

[Phantastic]

What the. . . .I thought the 3DS eShop games didn't have a limit. (o.o)

you are probably thinking of this article that was posted back then
http://www.gamespot.com/forums/topic/28 ... strictions


This size limit is pretty good imo and I bet it will be lifted once nintendo adds retail games. But if not then I'm guessing that Nintendo won't be bringing retail games that is over 2gb--metal gear and revelations to the eshop in the future.
The only other restrictions i see is that nintendo does not allow third party to offer free stuff on eshop thus forcing konami to provide a paid application of love plus to transfer data over to the 3ds game. Also Nintendo doesn't allow price drops which is unfortunate.

[Phantastic]

2GB is plenty. Was the Resident Evil demo even close to that? It was like 1100 blocks. how many MB is that?

thats around 137.5 MB

[WesFX]

Uh huh. Team Meat would complain about the WiiWare limit, wouldn't they.

[Battlestriker123]

@GhuttoALT Most GameCube games aren't even that big! The max for NOD's are 1.4 GB, and most don't even come close to that size!

[bonesawisready]

Sweet. Though he doesn't per say state that 2GB is a limt, just that the ceiling is higher

I want DS and 3DS retail games on the eShop NAO!

[Windsor]

Chris Svennson said

Well there's your problem.

[mushroom_mage]

It seems like these dudes spend a lot more time opining and self-promoting than they do making games.

[Oregano]

Chris Svennson said

Well there's your problem.

Haha. True but lots of devs/pubs have people that are lying liars from liar town. They've also all took a master class in Making Excuses Level 3.

[GhuttoALT]

@GhuttoALT Most GameCube games aren't even that big! The max for NOD's are 1.4 GB, and most don't even come close to that size!

So, 2GB is much better!! \o/

[LegendofSantiago]

2GB is enough. That's the more than most 3DS retail games. If you want to publish something bigger than that it should be on retail because it probably wouldn't sell that well in the e-shop since the majority of the 3DS audience have a 2GB memory card (courtesy of nintendo).

[The_King_Up_North]

A little bit off-topic, but it'd be nice if I could transfer all of my data from a 3DS game card to the 3DS itself. You know, so that I could play a retail 3DS game that I've already purchased without having to switch game cards. Even if it meant I couldn't use the card on other systems unless I deleted the data from the original 3DS (or moved it back to the card), I'd be okay with that.

[Mike_Intellivision]

What the. . . .I thought the 3DS eShop games didn't have a limit. (o.o)

you are probably thinking of this article that was posted back then
http://www.gamespot.com/forums/topic/28 ... strictions


This size limit is pretty good imo and I bet it will be lifted once nintendo adds retail games. But if not then I'm guessing that Nintendo won't be bringing retail games that is over 2gb--metal gear and revelations to the eshop in the future.
The only other restrictions i see is that nintendo does not allow third party to offer free stuff on eshop thus forcing konami to provide a paid application of love plus to transfer data over to the 3ds game. Also Nintendo doesn't allow price drops which is unfortunate.

Hopefully Nintendo will often its stance on these as well.
After all, the streaming services are free and we are seeing third party demos.

Mike from Morgantown

[link29]

So if that's the case, then what's the excuse for Sega not putting Sonic 4: Episode 2 on the eShop then?

[Vidaluko]

I think is the same limit than XBLA games...

[bszelda]

Wow...they limited to only 40MB for DSiWare? That is crazy. I've seen flash games larger than that...for real. Glad that they have a 2GB+ limit now. Maybe we can get some super mega big games to download lmao

[Autosaver]

@Phantastic
The Wii Shop has some price drops, temporary but still.