News - More news on Club Nintendo
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Christopher Pioli
at 04:59:55 PM EST on 11.15.2008.
More details on the American incarnation of Club
Nintendo have arisen! Cammie Dunaway, vice president of sales and marketing, spoke in New York about the new service. Points are referred to as "Gold Coins."
You can get them by registering your products - software, hardware, and accessories - on their My Nintendo web-site. Points/gold coins will also be awarded when you fill out surveys discussing your experience with said products. "You actually get points
before you purchase, if you indicate an interest in purchasing," Dunaway explained. The system is set up to reward both purchases and potential purchases.
While we are unsure if we can get free green mushrooms or any other 1-up-based items from the service for 100 gold coins, we do have an idea of what will be distributed. The system will be oriented to reward players with physical products like Japan's system, and will be less like the European version which Dunaway explains "is pretty much digital." It would seem the service will provide American consumers more rewards like controllers and soundtracks, where the digital side would be items like screen savers and possible cell-phone ring tones.
Nintendo's New York team is working in overdrive to get the service ready before the end of the holidays this year.
Source: MTV Multiplayer
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hypersonicexe 11.18.2008 at 09:11:48 PM
That's a good sign. That, and just about every place I looked on the US Nintendo site just now was very careful to say "North America", so I'm assuming the best case scenario, here. Also:
"Gamers have longed for the expansion of Club Nintendo to North America for years, and now Nintendo is making it a reality for everyone. Club Nintendo rewards Nintendo loyalists ~~~who complete surveys~~~ and register Nintendo products with loyalty coins that can be redeemed for exclusive items available only to Club Nintendo members. Club Nintendo is set to debut in North America this holiday season."
http://www.nintendo.com/whatsnew/detail/t6rlC6_5A_XIb0cdW9-uPKEj2vPE-9RS
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animetayl 11.18.2008 at 04:57:34 PM
hyper: Looks like it is for NA as a whole. I checked Nintendo.ca and the news was there.
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hypersonicexe 11.17.2008 at 10:32:15 AM
animetayl - I guess it just depends on how expensive air shipping is. Considering the customer isn't charged directly for the prize (it's a redemption or coupon taken off the cost of the games and reduces profit), it may only be for the contiguous 48.
We don't know, yet.
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animetayl 11.16.2008 at 12:29:06 PM
I hope this applies to NA as a whole, and not limited to the States.
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pixy misao 11.16.2008 at 01:05:26 AM
Club Nintendo? What a retro name, hopefully appropriately so. I already register my games at My Nintendo, but I get even less "bonuses" than I did when Nintendo was losing money with the Gamecube. All I had to do was take a free survey to get a Gamecube disc of 4 Zelda games and a Wind Waker demo, now I've bought dozens and dozens of Wii VC games and I don't even get a thank you note.
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thehawk 11.16.2008 at 12:32:15 AM
As much as I also would like past purchases to work retroactively, let me remind everyone that this is FREE STUFF. They don't technically owe us anything. Even if they do reward us for old stuff, I would be shocked if anything before the Wii/DS counted.
On a side note, I've been purposely withholding my product registrations for quite a long time now. I save them for promotions and stuff.
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lumbersmith 11.16.2008 at 12:00:41 AM
http://blog.wired.com/games/2008/10/post.html
From that interview, it sounds like they'll be deciding which titles they want to give you credit for and you're probably not going to get any points for systems/titles before the Wii and DS. If that's true, then my heart's a little broken, though I'm not completely surprised.
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ershin 11.15.2008 at 11:14:51 PM
I just want to echo the sentiment that they had better award points retroactively. As it stands, there's a pretty fat stack of games that I'm waiting to register out of concern that they might not.
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cainkid 11.15.2008 at 10:44:02 PM
I somehow doubt that Nintendo realizes how much of a kick in the pants it will be for their fans if they don't give credit for old registrations.
I mean like, big time ouch. I would not even try the rest of the system if I found that I was starting from scratch eveen with all my support so far.
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pook 11.15.2008 at 09:33:07 PM
They better grandfather in some past registrations, even if a tiered sytem: half credit for gc/gba registrations, but full credit for ds/wii registrations. especially since most registrations did absolutely nothing.
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hypersonicexe 11.15.2008 at 06:55:26 PM
"You actually get points before you purchase, if you indicate an interest in purchasing," Dunaway explained.
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...what?
You'd probably get substantially less Gold Coins for "indicating interest" in products, though. You'd get, say, 1 Gold Coin for answering a poll, and 25 for purchasing said game? I dunno; depends on the prize pricing.
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thehawk 11.15.2008 at 06:41:01 PM
Yay! Of course, unless they let me enter some past purchases, I won't be able to take advantage of this until next year when Nintendo starts putting out the games I want. But it's still quite exciting, because Japan has received some really sweet stuff.
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hamm 11.15.2008 at 06:40:07 PM
The one thing that I've not seen stated thus far is if they will be retroactively rewarding coins for previous surveys and registered products. I've probably done 30 surveys and I have over 50 registered products already. I also have 7 games I've not yet registered because I don't want to lose credit for them should it not be retroactive.
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nny 11.15.2008 at 06:35:37 PM
NoA - "Let's get physical."
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daetrin 11.15.2008 at 05:46:49 PM
Ooohhh! Soundtracks would be good!
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