Satoru Iwata has confirmed Nintendo themselves will offer DLC in their games, but not until next year.

Last week Nintendo announced that the eShop would be expanded and downloadable content would come to the Nintendo 3DS. During the meeting Satoru Iwata claimed that this is something developers have been requesting for some time and in the Q&A that followed Satoru Iwata confirmed Nintendo too would offer downloadable content.

Unfortunately for fans who had been hoping Nintendo would introduce it into titles such as Mario Kart 7 Mr. Iwata claims that Nintendo will begin offering "something like this [DLC] for the titles Nintendo publishes next year," and seeing as this was said at an investors meeting there is a chance he means next fiscal year (April 2012-March 2013). However, while this may initially disappoint some fans he did promise that it will be done "in a way that should be appreciated by our consumers". He also notes that some companies are planning to offer this service "early next year", although we will have to wait for their own announcements.

Moving onto boxed software Mr. Iwata notes that Nintendo "failed to offer strong software titles without long intervals in the first half of this year" but claims it is because unfortunately they simply could not deliver the titles but are looking to make up for it in the next six months. Satoru Iwata describes the year-end sales season, which will see the release of The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, Mario Kart 7 and Super Mario 3D Land amongst others, as "so dense that, if we added any more software, the total sales would not increase" and as a result certain games have been delayed until next year.