Eh? Why would you need to pay to download the games? I'm sure if Microsoft managed it then Nintendo can surely have downloads for free. It's highly unlikely that Nintendo will do it, but perhaps this could even be that secret that they have been keeping from us and also the big announcement that was mentioned.
Buried at the bottom of an IGN preview for the Wii's Tony Hawk's Downhill Jam is the news that not only is this game not going to feature any online component, but every 3rd-party game that comes out for the Wii won't support anything online either. Not until 2007 will publishers be able to offer up Wi-Fi gaming to eager players who picked up a Wii.
IGN Says: "Gamers hoping for an online component, however, are in for bad news, because one isn't planned. Activision would not say why, but IGN has separately learned from multiple development sources that Nintendo will not release Wii Wi-Fi Connection libraries to third parties until early 2007, which means that no third party launch title will have an online mode."
I was playing my wii whist I stroked my large wiimote comtemplating my next move. then it struck me , ohnos! I like men . To appease this problem I had becuase my dog shoved a retro Wii controller up my mother's giant gaping hole in the side of her bresticals, I decided to have a sex-change operation to not feel guilty about my really huge ears that make me look like a cute lil' monkey after a long night of partying with the bros from the planet of Pluto that is currently a dog!