Nintendo and Apple have to be hanging out, stroking each other’s hog. They’re both masters of announcing shit like it’s something innovative and ass-tingling despite having already been done. In this case, Nintendo is all, “Hey, you can download New Super Mario Bros. 2  this summer!” and mentioning the Wii U will support it as well. Yeah, whatever. Passe!

Kotaku:

The freshly-announced  New Super Mario Bros. 2, for the 3DS, sees Nintendo entering the digital download age for  real, as the game will be available as either a packaged product at retail or as a downloadable title (which is saved to an SD card). Other titles will follow. Strangely, the downloadable option will also be available at retailers.

Cont:

It’s not just the 3DS that’s  getting full-scale digital downloads this year. Nintendo’s new Wii U console will be getting the feature as well.

This means that new games released at retail on the system, at least those published by Nintendo, will also be available day-and-date to download.

Interestingly, games will be downloaded through the eShop, but consumers will be buying download codes either from a retail store or an online vendor. Nintendo says prices will be determined by those third-party vendors, which in theory at least should lead to competition and – at least occasionally – lower prices.

Oh gosh! Totally wizard!