Nintendo games won't have DLC, says Reggie Fils-Aime

Nintendo will not provide downloadable content for its games, the firm has said.

American boss Reggie Fils-Aime said it wants to sell the complete experience to consumers and not force them to buy more at a later date.

"We're interested in [DLC] to the extent that it makes sense to the consumer," he told AOL Games Blog.

"And it's interesting: I've had this conversation with a number of our key developers, and their mentality is, 'Reggie, when we sell a game, we want the consumer to feel that they've had a complete experience'."



"Now, in addition, if we want to make other things available, great, and we'll look at that. But we're unwilling to sell a piece of a game upfront and, if you will, force a consumer to buy more later. That's what they don't want to do, and I completely agree."

Fils-Aime said that the company wouldn't be adverse to digital expansions, suggesting possible free-to-play games if the consumer would feel "satisfied".

"I think the consumer wants to get, for their money, a complete experience, and then we have opportunities to provide more on top of that," he teased.

Responding to free-to-play games, he said: "All I'm saying is - your question was - will Nintendo participate in this additional digital content? And the answer is yes, but the way that we'll do it is that whatever we sell initially, we will feel that that is a complete experience. And if that's all the consumer wants to do, that they'd be satisfied."

This week, Nintendo released two of their biggest games of the year: Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword on Wii and Super Mario 3D Land on 3DS.