Nintendo has changed their My Nintendo mission list to have additional rewards for promotional emails. If you sign up to receive these emails, you will get 30 Platinum Points. You can get a monthly 10 Platinum Points if you keep receiving them. Below is a screenshot that indicates where you can find the missions on the list.
All they need for me is some way to convert Platinum points to Gold.
well, Platinum is a far more valuable element than Gold
true but gold offers better rewards in most cases
One problem with the Gold points games are that they’re overpriced. They use up far too many of your valuable coins and they aren’t anywhere near worth that much. $70 in eshop downloads is 80 gold points. Super Mario 64 alone is 90 and that’s only a $10 N64 game. (I think? I don’t remember. Maybe it’s $15.)
The best rewards that don’t destroy all your coins are definitely the discounts, but only really matter if you’re willing to download your games.
I also find it random that they have some game rewards as gold points only and some (like Warioware Touched) as platinum points only. Discounts would be better if they didn’t have them be region-exclusive in my opinion (I still get more and more worried about Nintendo every day because of this…).
The Wii U rewards require gold points and the 3DS ones require platinum points.
Oh, that makes sense, never mind.
Yeah I didn’t understand it either until I took a closer look.
Nintendo: We’ll give you points if you sign up for promotions-
Me: FINE.
That was my exact reaction XD
as much as i love nintendo i already got to deal with spam so no thanks
So far I have yet to even care about trying to earn points on this new rewards system. It totally SUCKS! It’s worse than Club Nintendo during it’s final year.
I am just faithfully signing into Miiverse every week and waiting for a good reward…
I give it a year after NX’s release before I give up on it. Aside from the Ink Tank cosmetic item for Miitomo, my coins have just been sitting there, until I’m pretty much forced to use them or they expire after a measly six months.
Just like with the 32-gig memory for the Wii U, I have to ask: who in the hell thought that was a good idea!?
It’s Nintendo. Every bad idea is a good idea to them, and vice versa,
Just like WWE.
Least WWE seems to be learning somewhat right now.
Even worse is that that’s for the premium edition. (As they called it back then) Basic one has a paltry 8GB… 32GB should’ve been the base. 64GB should’ve been premium. After game updates and only two indie games downloaded from the eshop, I had a few hundred MB left. Come on now…
irrelevant…i can’t do shit with platinum coins…
My biggest problem with Nintendo is that they want us to go digital with our games, yet give is a crappy amount of internal storage on the Wii U. I have a 64gb SD card for my 3DS that I got for really cheap, and I’ll never run out of space. My Wii U on the other hand is full and I can’t even download the Nindie Bundle games. -.- Let’s not forget that External hard drives are not cheap. Hopefully they’ll fix this with the NX, but knowing Nintendo, they won’t.
External hard drives for the Wii U don’t cost much. But I found it rather annoying to deal with tbh. I grew tired of carrying one around every single time I wanted to play one of my downloaded games. Nintendo wants you to purchase games digitally but make it hard to do that. Low storage, games tied to hardware, and no cloud storage. WHY? If someone bought an 8GB Wii U with an external hard drive and something were to happen to it, well, they have no games to play. And all the games that they had were for nothing because that data is gone. Not cool!
As much as I hate Wii U now, least it does one thing right that the PS4 isn’t doing: letting you actually download games to an external hard drive & letting you then play said game from it. Looks like my 2TB Toshiba external HDD is now a waste of money cuz I’ve given up on Wii U & the PS4 can’t use it. Then again, I could always use it for other things so that 70 something I paid for it doesn’t go to waste. Maybe PS4 will get an update that allows their use at a later date or they’ll make it an exclusive feature to the damn PS4 Neo. Well least my shit isn’t console locked, unlike that fucking Wii U with it’s fucking dark age system transfer bullshit, so if the latter occurs, I can just remove my account & everything from my current PS4, format it, then do a trade in at Gamestop to get the PS4 Neo for a cheaper price. Then just get the thing home & put my account onto it. Problem easily rectified. >.< Til then, I'll just have to play the "which game do I play less & won't have an issue with removing to make room for another game" game.
I prefer digital games, but both my PC and PS4, I custom installed solid state drives (much better than hard drives) and the 3DS of course uses an SD card. However, for the Wii U, the only option I have is either a very large (and expensive) flash drive or an external hard drive, both of which through a relatively slow USB 2.0.
I’ve already had three internal hard drives die in my household over a decade and a half, and the external hard drive my Wii U was using broke overnight while downloading Smash 4 at midnight.
Also, Nintendo’s digital content management policies are a bit awkward and out-of-date… Like, when I go to a friend’s house or the game room at my college’s campus, I can pull up all my PS3/4 and Steam games after a quick download. Wii U, on the other hand, I can’t access my library as it’s tied to a console rather than an account… (And I can’t even do a “quick download” as wifi in general is crappy and an Ethernet-to-USB 2.0 adapter tends to limit speeds severely from 150mb-ish to 15. As a gaming console, the Wii U really should have a native Ethernet port)
tl;dr The Wii U is the one console/device that I don’t like getting digital content on even though I prefer digital over physical for pretty much every other gaming device or entertainment medium in general.