
As you have no doubt heard (well, maybe I have a little doubt), Nintendo's relatively long-running loyalty/rewards program, Club Nintendo, is ending July 1, 2015. Key facts:
- Newly (as in, as of yesterday) released games don't have Club Nintendo codes anymore.
- You have until March 31 to register all your codes. Accounts cannot be created after this date.
- You must redeem all your Club Nintendo coins by July 1, 2:59 AM EST.
- All Club Nintendo codes must be redeemed by July 31, 2015.
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Also, we're getting Flipnote Studio 3D. ALL Club Nintendo members! ...Apparently for free. If you don't have a Club Nintendo account yet (why wouldn't you?) but want Flipnote Studio 3D, you can still get it!
"As a small token of appreciation for your loyalty, all Club Nintendo members will receive a download code for Flipnote Studio 3D in February, 2015. Flipnote Studio 3D will be available to Club Nintendo members until June 30, 2015. The ability to create a new Club Nintendo account will end on March 31, 2015."Some analysis: Club Nintendo has been gradually scaling back its rewards for years now, which has not only been a thing in America, but in other regions around the world, as well. To date, the best reward was still Doc Louis's Punch-Out!! in the loyalty program's first year, and I was happy to be able to play that as a big Punch-Out!! fan.
Before Club Nintendo we just had the MyNintendo accounts that our Nintendo NSider Forum accounts were based off of. The username/password for MyNintendo carried over to Club Nintendo after NSider closed. MyNintendo also had registration of games/systems, except it wasn't really a rewards program. However, registering three games WAS how you could get The Legend of Zelda: Collector's Edition. (It's also how I've played The Legend of Zelda, The Legend of Zelda: Adventure of Link, and The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask.)
Three GameCube games would be like 150 Club Nintendo coins today. You can't get anything anywhere near this value for that now. |
Just to take inventory: I'm sitting on two Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate demo codes (that I just got today, actually), a The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD code, an F-Zero X code for the Wii, and two Digital Deluxe Promotion codes (each worth $5 in eShop credit). I gotta get rid of those before June 30.
...Look forward to a KoopaTV giveaway contest between now and E3 2015!
By the way, some people think Club Nintendo being discontinued is a sign of Nintendo's financial health, or something.
That's ridiculous.
If anything, with amiibo, the lifetime money value for the average Nintendo customer has only increased. That means a rewards program should actually be improved. After all, Nintendo said they're working on a new program, so we'll see how that goes.
Bright side: You don't have to destroy your game box covers anymore trying to get the codes after they stopped including them in a packet behind the instruction manual. Poor Professor Layton Vs. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney now has a rip in it!
Ludwig has had a MyNintendo account since 2003 and has gotten all sorts of free stuff for the thousands he must have spent on Nintendo products. He hasn't calculated how much money he has given Nintendo in his lifetime and would probably be scared of the total, so he never will.
For more on how Ludwig is a Punch-Out!! fan, see the Punch-Out!! week series of articles.
Club Nintendo's giant reward catalog for 2015 is revealed! Thoughts inside.
Even though Club Nintendo discontinued, the site is still accessible. The same isn't true for the Deluxe Digital Promotion!
Nintendo's new rewards program is "My Nintendo", different than "MyNintendo" here.
*cries quietly* So many games I still planned to register to get Platinum status in future years... XD
ReplyDeleteYeah, takin' advantage of that (formerly) 5-year registration period...
Delete...Now you gotta dump it all now.
I think I actually threw away a few codes... :P
ReplyDeleteIt would be pretty cool if they had amiibo as prizes.
Well, now we know they won't be!
Deleteyup!
Deletelooks like flipnotes gonna be the next pokemon bank though. Now that they're emailing codes, the eshop is going to crash when they're released.
They're e-mailling them? I thought they'd be sent via the to-do list.
Deleteoh,my bad. misheard the update. That delay really sucks. It's going to crash again then as well.
Delete...probably, unless no one knows about it being there.
Delete...Eh all of the mainstream sites will mention it. >_>
That's probably true. I'm a bit frustrated they keep delaying it.
DeleteTo be fair, it went from "sometime in February" to "this week in February" to "sometime in February".
DeleteI suppose that's true. Still, they should pick a time and commit to it. It's understandable to do it once,but it feels like this lack of preparation has happened a lot lately.
DeleteReminder that Nintendo's was the only online console network to survive Christmas.
Deletehttp://koopatv.blogspot.com/2014/12/on-christmas-only-nintendo-network.html
I'd say that cancels out these recent mishaps.
I suppose so. I wonder if they could release a few download codes at a time to prevent crashing.
DeleteIt doesn't matter if the codes are released or not: If people THINK they are, they'll head over to CN and crash it.
Deleteoh,right. I just don't see why this chaos could have happened two years ago. no matter how long they delay it,it'll happen. Obviously,their best bet is some obscure time,but still...
DeleteThey should just take the crash and keep saying "YOU GOT UNTIL JUNE 30!"
DeleteThe sad thing is that I was debating what to get for so long,I never spent my leftover points.
Delete........Oh.
Delete...Well that sucks. :(