Nintendo Goes Free to Play with Rusty's Real Deal Baseball

Nintendo's free-to-play game, Rusty's Real Deal Baseball, will be heading to 3DS this April.

Confirmed during Nintendo Direct this week, the shop-management sim will be one of the first from Nintendo to involve transactions as part of the game's design. The game, already released in Japan, involves interacting with a dog shop owner in the game, in order to haggle for discounts in reality.

Company boss Satoru Iwata confirmed that players will be able to purchase mini games off Rusty in exchange for doing a number favours for him - the happier he is, the better the real-life discount will be for players, with the maximum cost tallying in at $4 per game.

There'll be all sorts of Baseball-related mini-games to unlock including the standard batting and catching sequences.

What are your thoughts on the free-to-play concept - will you help Rusty out?