


Luckily, his new best buddy, a possessed lamp is around to show him the ropes of the spirit form. Which will be tricky, what with him no longer being among the living. With no memory of who he is (or to be more exact, was), zero clue why he was done away with and only the few hours remaining until dawn breaks before his soul will vanish forever, there's only one thing for the proactive, amnesiac spectre to do: Sissel must solve his own murder. On top of all this it's just bound to be raining. Sissel appears to have lost his memory and if that weren't enough he rather appears to have been murdered too. Please note that you will need Flash to experience this website properly. Even then, waiting for retail sales is almost certainly going to be cheaper than buying a digital version.Ghost Trick Phantom Detective from Capcom, is a combination of a mystery, logic puzzles and a supernatural thriller, only for the Nintendo DS. If there are both retail and digital versions of a game available - which is my understanding - then it becomes a much tougher sell (for me) to choose digital copies that can't be sold/traded/loaned to friends and are locked to a particular console unless there is a meaningful price difference right off the bat. But in this case, there would be no difference from current eShop releases except for file size, so why word the announcement as such and make a big deal over it? Heck, I'm a relatively strong supporter of existing eShop content already.

If the only viable way to purchase a game is through eShop then I can understand the rationale. I was talking about new 3DS games that presumably also exist as normal retail versions, easily available for purchase at stores (such as Mario Kart 7 getting a digital release). Do you really think Nintendo will sell digital copies for less than half of suggested retail rates though?

Even then, your example specifies a discount of greater than 50% for buying digital instead of retail - in which case I already said I could understand the justification. You are talking about a re-release of a rare, existing game from a different console generation (ie: Virtual Console). This isn't how I understand the announcement. Wouldn't paying $20 to download it instead be much better? Before It was revealed that Nintendo will finally bring the NPC version of the game to North America, the only way to buy the game besides importing was to track down a used copy f the GCN version (which is at least $45). Ejamer, there are a few situations where a digital download would be better than retail.
