Music Download Service Heads to 3DS in Japan

Amongst the Mario games and Animal Crossing discussed during the Nintendo Direct presentation today, Nintendo Japan announced a new music service for the Nintendo 3DS.

Due to start this December in the company's home turf,  the 3DS will get its own app to purchase songs from the Club Recochoku service - a cloud based music provider. Any song downloaded on the Nintendo 3DS can then be accessed on another device, say a mobile or tablet, that has support for RecoChoku.

Likewise songs on a user's account purchased by other means can be loaded onto a 3DS.

With over a million songs in its catalogue to date, it's certainly a start to pumping out the tunes on the move with the 3DS. No western offering has been suggested so far, but with Nintendo embracing the digital distribution medium, equivalents are likely to surface at some point.