Nintendo Zone

Nintendo Zone
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DeveloperNintendo
Denyu-sha
TypeOnline distribution service
Launch date
  • JP: November 14, 2008
  • NA: November 27, 2008
  • EU: April 25, 2012
Discontinued
  • NA: August 28, 2016
  • EU: March 28, 2018
  • JP: March 28, 2018
Platform(s)Nintendo DS
Nintendo DSi
Nintendo 3DS
StatusOffline
Websitewww.nintendo.com/3ds/nintendozone

Nintendo Zone was a download service and an extension of the DS Download Station.[1] Users could access content, third-party data, and other services from a hotspot or download station.[2] The service had demos of upcoming and currently available games and may have location-specific content. When the service debuted, users could also connect to the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection and DSi Shop.[3]

The Nintendo Zone Viewer application allowed the Nintendo DSi and 3DS to detect and use the Nintendo Zone service.[3][4] This application provided location specific content to users via Nintendo Zone hotspots and was discontinued in 2014.[5]

  1. ^ "Nintendo Zone test service were available at the Nintendo World store beginning November 14, 2008, but were discontinued as of April 25, 2016". Nintendo of America. Redmond, Washington: Nintendo. November 14, 2008.
  2. ^ "- Nintendo - Customer Service - Nintendo DSi/Nintendo DSi XL - End User Agreement". Retrieved July 19, 2015.
  3. ^ a b Satoru Iwata (October 2, 2008). "Nintendo Conference Fall 2008". Nintendo. p. 5. Retrieved May 22, 2009.
  4. ^ "Iwata Asks". Retrieved July 19, 2015.
  5. ^ "Nintendo Zone Viewer Service Update".