WiiU to use near-field communications for easy online purchases

WiiU to use near-field communications for easy online purchases.

Hella cool. It takes big names like Nintendo to start using something like NFC for it to really take off.

Say you’re trying to buy an intriguing-sounding game from the Nintendo eShop. Assuming you don’t have any of those wacky “Nintendo Points” left over in your account (“It works just like regular money, but it’s, er…’fun’“), you have to break out a credit card (or a prepaid Nintendo Points card) and painstakingly enter the card type, card number, expiration date, security code, and billing address, all using a Wii Remote pointer that’s ill-suited to the purpose (hope you haven’t had too much caffeine recently).