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Club Nintendo coming to North America 'by the end of the year'

by Christopher Grant on Oct 2nd 2008 1:28PM

"Oh, and one more thing ..."

Okay, so Nintendo's Cammie Dunaway didn't quite pull a Steve Jobs but she did save some of the biggest news for last. Japan's (and Europe's ... and Australia's) envy-inspiring Club Nintendo service – a "loyalty program" which rewards your Nintendo purchase with points to be redeemed for cool swag – will be making its way to North America "by the end of the year." Is this a move to placate the dissatisfied "core" gamer, still bitter from Nintendo's mainstream E3 pitch? Or a plan decades in the making which just so happens to coincide with said dissatisfaction? We may never know, but we're anxious to see what sort of goodies Nintendo offers its too-long taken for granted fanboys and girls.

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Tags: BreakingNews, Club-Nintendo, DS, Nintendo, Wii

Reader Comments (35)

Nothing that Nintendo announced today made me regret selling my Wii. They should really fire Cammy.

You probably only bought one to sell it on eBay in the first place.

No, mine sat on my entertainment center for a long time before I just gave up on it. I just could not get excited about any of the games, and the online made me sad.

I'm glad you sold it. It was too crappy for you anyways...

So are they going to be coming out with some games core gamers want to buy so we could get these points?

My thoughts exactly.

Nope. To get core games you have to send in points from the envelopes of all that haterade you're chugging.

I don't understand what a "core" gamer is. I thought it mean "hardcore", but it sounds like it just means "Zelda fan".

Depends on what this "swag" is. If it's like clothing and trash like that then forget it. If it can go towards games however, that's a much better deal. You'd just have to find a game worth spending those points on :P

On the UK Nintendo site, it says that the points you get from buying Nintendo stuff, will also be given when you buy virtual console games. Even in arrears.

If that makes no sense it's cau'se i'm tired.

:(

The decision to make Cammy Dunaway a face of Nintendo is really odd. On one hand, she is supposed to represent/appeal their casual gamer audience. Unfortunately the casual audience probably has no interest in watching a press conference and the people who actually attend/watch these things probably can't relate to Cammy, so putting her on stage doesn't seem to be very productive.

I second the firing of Cammy.

this was supposed to be a reply to the dirty walrus

That walrus lost a bucket. Is sad.

I know she probably does a good job...at something, just keep her of the goddamn stage.

"I am the Walrus!"

-John Lennon

"The Walrus was Paul"

- John Lennon

If it's the same incredible stuff as Club Nintendo got in Japan then....hells yeah

Joystiq needs to do a top ten stuff from Japan Club Nintendo to get us in the mood :) There has been some awesome stuff over the years....

Hopefully they do pay attention to this one, seriously, the european Club Nintendo is god awful, I think the best thing I once saw were wavebird controllers...

They just started up that Music exchange program, though, right?

Ooo...interesting.

Lessee what you can bring this way Club Nintendo (better not be swag that Nintendo Power used to give with subscriptions...)

I thought today's announcements were pretty sweet after the dismal E3. Come on Sin and Punishment 2, Mario & Luigi RPG 3, Punchout (though hopefully not marred by the motion control), and a good solution to the storage problem rounds out a decemt show for me. Though it can be argued that this is putting lipstick on a pig. Haha for me with political humor.

Hey Joystiq, here's an interesting follow-up question you might want to consider asking-- especially if the program's supposed to be out before the end of the year. Is the program going to be tied at all to the existing My Nintendo program being run, and if so, will games purchased/codes entered prior to the launch of the NA Club count towards Club rewards? I imagine that folks who buy a lot of VC stuff (like, well, us) would hate to have our previous purchases not count.

Yeah, agreed! I have over 50 items registered to Nintendo's website, and COUNTLESS other things I just haven't bothered putting up there. Really lost interest registering when I wasn't getting anything to do it.

I have enough registered for a Nintendo themed Vespa, so I'm hoping it's retroactive as well.

10 years too late. Thanks Nintendo.

There's absolutely nothing to be excited about. Club Nintendo is a way of making Nintendo seem like they love their fans, when in actual fact there's never ANYTHING of any value available to trade in your points for. About once a year they'll put 5 copies of some really old games you already own up there, and someone else will get to them before you have a chance to click on the link...

Actually wait, that's not entirely true... In Japan it's fucking awesome, you can get loads of awesome stuff off there. Nintendo hates us Europeans though, and probably you Americans too... Sorry...

Actually I rather enjoyed being able to buy Wii Points -- sorry, *Nintendo* Points -- with my Stars.

You mean the Wii points cards that they make about 5 of available each day? I've never once been on there when they haven't been sold out

Sweet. Even if it's only the kind of swag you wouldn't pay for anyway.

But no, i doubt they'll care enough to try and make it rival the awesomeness of the Japanese one.

Fernando will certainly win whatever they have to offer.

Club Nintendo isn't particulary good in the UK, you need to have bought a LOT of games to have enough points for anything, and most of it is just crap anyway.

Anything remotely good that shows up from time to time requires a crazy amount of points, and sells out in seconds.

Perhaps the US version won't be handled so badly, but then it's just going to feel like us European gamers are being screwed over by Nintendo even more.

Hey! I was a Nintendo Fun Club member and never got anything except a ID card!

as bad as the Europe one, shed a tear for the Australian club Nintendo. Its been 6 months since its launch and we are yet to be able to see any of the 'prizes'. All we can do is enter the coupon codes.

I expect the US one to be more functional AT its launch, which is just disappointing for NoAU.

So how exactly am I going to get these points (I got a Wii in 2006)?

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