Club Nintendo is back with a fresh new look and the ability to purchase downloadable games with Nintendo Coins, earned from redeeming your purchases. Currently up for grabs are Super Mario Kart for Wii and The Legend of Zelda: 25th anniversary poster set amongst other items. Go ahead and check it out.
Tip: Kenny and Danny
And what about Europe?
:C
Wait, you didn’t say first?
Some faith in humanity has been restored! :’)
First
yeah, are we going to get the same treatment? i have 950 coins eagerly waiting to be spent on super mario kart
nope sorry you guys have already gotten enough
Years of missing out on RPGs that made it to the states but not Europe? No, no we haven’t even started to get enough yet.
The club-nintendo UK homepage isn’t loading up for me so fingers crosssed it’s for the right reasons!!!
What happen with Mexico!? We also need more things for us u.u
Ya se es horrible que nos dejen fuera de club nintendo, yo cree una cuenta y me la canncelaron por no ser de EU
-Traduccion-
i know its awful we are out of club nintendo, i created an acount but they cancelled it whe they figured out i was not from US
¿En serio te la cancelaron? Yo tengo una cantidad enorme de puntos y no los quiero perder por no ser de EU… >_<
Que conste que para comprar juegos solo se recibe un código por internet, no como las demás recompensas que ofrecen que son por servicio postal…
yo soy de México y pude descargar juegos, solo crea una cuenta valida
Yo soy de Honduras y creé una cuenta con la dirección de un familiar mío en estados unidos, mis rewards le llegan a él y él me los manda a mi pero ahora mejor voy a gastar las coins en juegos xD
Interesting indeed. I might pick up Super Mario Kart, the emulator version is kinda lame.
You could mention that it’s Club Nintendo US.Club Nintendo Europe is still behind…
Woohoo! I saw it a several minutes ago. Im so happy lol
I already ordered the Zelda posters a couple hours ago.
:D
same here
In europe we have stars instead of coins… we get 250 stars for a retail game for example and we can change them by a ratio of 4 : 1 into Nintendo Points… So in order to get a 3d classic title for example which is 600 points in the 3DS shop you have to collect 2400 stars which is an equivalent of almost 500 Euros invested in Retail-Games (mostly frist party)… what a rip off!!!!
What a rip off?! It’s free bonuses you receive for games you purchase! Does Microsoft do this? Does Sony do this? No! Be grateful that Nintendo gives away awesome gifts away to their fans!
What are you talking about? Free Gifts??? Nintendo products are way overpriced and the prices don’t go down for years.. After almost 5 years they’ve introduced “nintendo Selects” (still overpriced) and the selections are way to few… If I’m heading for the store right now and wanted to buy a 3 and a half year old game (Mario Kart Wii) they would still charge me 50 bucks for it… For the same money I can get two triple A Playstation 3 Games (platinum) and one PSP Essential… So please, don’t tell me I should be grateful… I love Ninetndo I really do, but they’ve drained my wallets for 20 Years now… and they couldn’t even give me a 1 to 1 ratio for changing stars into points? I pay 50 bucks for a game and they gave me the equivalent of 75 cents? Or how about getting a 3DS for 249 Euros? Wow! Almost a whole Euro credit in their store!!! You can’t be serious….
That wasn’t what you were complaining about in your orignal post. You said how it’s a rip-off that it would take you 500 euros that you’ve already spent in games to exchange for a 3D classic game. You don’t buy games to exchange for points, you buy games to play them. What I said was that XBox and Playstation fans spend all their money on games (like us) but get nothing in return. At least we get free prizes for purchasing Nintendo products.
That was exactly what I was complaining about… And this is about Nintendo, not about Sony or Microsoft… They have their own faults, but right now I’m talking about Nintendos bad buisness policies.ANd there are plenty…. I don’t even begin talking about those – I could write a whole book about… (keep in mind, that I consider myself a die-hard Nintendo lover)
Back to the topic: When they announced the exchange of nintendo stars into NIntendo points I was excited. Finally I could spend my collected stars (by buying lots and lots of expensive Nintendo products) for something I care for: Games! But then it was said my precious stars would be only worth a quarter in Nintendo points… and that was slap in the face! It was such a good Idea… ruined by greed. In the end I got one or two virtual console games (VC = another example of bad marketing) for thousands and thousands of stars…. Now that’s a bummer. Nintendo kicked me in the balls before, again and again… Still, I support them, and millions of other fans. And for that, as truly devoted costumers, the backbone of that company – don’t you think we deserve a bit more as a store credit calculated that measly? Please, no fanboyism.. stay factual… ;)
Prices don’t go down for years? They changed the price of the 3DS by $80 in less than one year, didn’t they?
Yes.. they dropped the price… because it was too high to begin with… At least I have a few free games I played to death decades ago as a compensation… ;) Seriously, I was talking about Wii- GAmes (or Gamecube, or N64, or GBA Advance, or DS for that matter). It is absolutly normal, that a good selling PS3 game for example is on the shelf for 20 bucks only half a year after release. It’s common sense: You sell loads of games until numbers go down.. then you drop the price… and sales will go up again… When the market is saturated you’ll probably drop the price even more… Or the other way around. Game sales are very weak.. What do you do? You drop the price! Not so Nintendo. The only exeption are Nintendo “Selects” and “Player’s Choice” (or what was the name of it?) but as I said: Way to late in the consoles lifecycle, to few games ans still to expensive! So I refused on a few games. Super Paper Mario? 49,99 Euro! Mario Kart Wii? 49,99! New Super Mario Brothers Wii? 49,99! Donkey Kong Country Returns? 49,99! I know there a sources where you can get them a bit cheaper but still.. many of those games that are full price are 4 years old….
I could go on and on.. but I won’t… Enough time and energy wasted for something that will hopefully change in the future..
You dont buy games just for Club Nintendo…
Of course not… But I am a member of Club Nintendo, and a customer of Nintendo… And in both cases I am severly dissappointed in Nintendo… Keep in mind, that I bought every major console since the SNES of my own money, same goes for the games. I am a customer and Nintendos customer service had too many flaws, so did their buisness policies… I will not even start with their products (consoles, games) lately… Can’t you be realistic for a moment and just take a look at the facts..? Besides, it was a simple FACT: I am dissapointed with the star/points system… That’s all. My opinion… You can have yours…
Still, we dont have it in Latin America….
This sucks… Still, I’m pretty sure we can log in as US residents and download the games with available coins, but I’m not really that interested in neither Xevious or Mario & DK…
You need a US or Canada zip code…..
Nothing in Brazil :/
this coin system is whack
also the website flash is laggy
Nintendo + Web presence = fail
also how is it not incorporated with the wii shop channel?
It gives you a code that you put in on the Wii shop channel. You click on setting, then on “download certificate” and put in the code.
Your Web presence = fail
Get a better computer/faster internet before blaming Nintendo.
Thank you very much. ^
I’m on the UK Club Nintendo site now and it’s still using stars, not coins. There is no fresh new look or downloadable games for us either :(
Well this is awesome. I didn’t realize I hadn’t done a post play survey for a game which I forgot about and did other Post Play surveys and just got enough coins to get Gold Status.
Now time to order those Zelda Posters.
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Yes! Got my Zelda 25th Anniversary poster set! ^.^
I got Fluidity and Mario vs. DK already!!! So happy :D
Anyone think Club Nintendo is really slow now?
is it just me or what. When I click rewards it signs me out.
same here
same same here
Do you use your 3DS? The 3DS doesn’t allow downloading for certain purposes.
It’s still slow as hell and experiencing difficulties. They’re still fixing the bugs, presumably.
I’m kinda mad I used my coins for Mario posters now. Even tho they are awesome, I rather have games.
Also if nintendo were to make an app for the app store i just wish they would make a club nintendo app because i am always away from my computer.
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I keep on getting signed out when i go to rewards, what’s going on….?
same and then i get a you are not eligible for this elite staus reward, i want minis march again
im trying to get minis march again and it keeps logging me out and says you are not eligible for this elite status reward, do i have to be gold to get it, im close but not gold yet for this year
Club Nintendo is currently unavailable due to site maintenance.
We apologize for any inconvenience.
I think they’re working on the site right now, its really slow.
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I went to download and got your not eligible for elite reward….
Japan gets a gold nunchuck and we (america) get shoelaces FUUUUUUUUUU
The European Club Nintendo is awful. Everything is over-priced and the selection of things to buy with your star points are poor. It would takes years of buying Nintendo products to be able to buy one of the good items off of there.
I wish we could have Kid Icarus 3D as a reward.
Only in Europe… (Remember, Europeans get Kid Icarus 3D if they buy two games?)
I’ve only redeemed Super Mario Kart, 3D Classics Xevious, and Fluidity. I did not get Mario VS DK Minis March Again because I only have a few coins left.
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Club nintendo is STILL doing maintenance on the site :( Hurry up nintendo!!!
Got Mario Kart last night! I still need to download it to the Wii though. Maybe when I get home from work.
its great to be an American!