Before you can try a demo, you need first to discover it. Today we discover games by word-of-mouth, a positive magazine review, or a passionate blog post. Later this year, we can add another method to that list: Miiverse. Miiverse will encourage discovery of software through Miis who will congregate around popular games on your Wii U home screen. Once you've taken notice of a game, the next step is finding out if that game is relevant to you. I'd argue there's no better way to see if pants fit than to try them on yourself.


One of the things I've appreciated about my Windows Phone 7 is that the majority of applications are free to try. The trials are usually limited to only the first few levels in a game or a restricted set of features in an application, but you usually get enough content to form an opinion. I hope to see Nintendo more fully embrace the increasingly-common "free to try" model with Wii U.