NINTENDO
PREPARES TO DISCONTINUE CLUB NINTENDO REWARDS PROGRAM
New Loyalty Program to be Announced at a Later
Date; Flipnote Studio 3D Offered to Club Nintendo Members
REDMOND, Wash., Jan. 20, 2015 – After more than six
years of delivering fun Nintendo-themed rewards to its members, Club Nintendo
is preparing to shut down. Nintendo’s loyalty-rewards program rewarded
members with a variety of items, such as downloadable games, Nintendo
posters or character figures in exchange for Coins that members earned
by registering products or completing surveys. Club Nintendo members in
the United States and Canada can earn additional Coins through the end
of March, and can redeem those Coins through the end of June. Nintendo
of America will be announcing a new customer loyalty program at a later
date.
“We thank all Club Nintendo members for their
dedication to Nintendo games and their ongoing love for our systems and
characters,” said Scott Moffitt, Nintendo of America’s executive vice
president of Sales & Marketing. “We want to make this time of
transition as easy as possible for our loyal Club Nintendo members, so
we are going to add dozens of new rewards and downloadable games to
help members clear out their Coin balances.”
Nintendo will add a number of physical reward options
for members in February. Members will also be able to choose from a
lineup of many downloadable games. As a gift to Club Nintendo members,
the Flipnote Studio 3D software will be available to download for free
in February. This software will allow users to create unique
three-dimensional animations and to exchange their creations via local
wireless with others who also own Flipnote Studio 3D. Users who
uploaded creations to Flipnote Hatena will be able to download their
personal animations from the Nintendo DSi Library menu in Flipnote
Studio 3D software. Flipnote Studio 3D will be available to Club
Nintendo members until June 30. The ability to create a new Club
Nintendo account will end on March 31. All users who register to Club
Nintendo before registration closes will be eligible to receive
Flipnote Studio 3D.
About
Nintendo: The worldwide pioneer in the creation of interactive
entertainment, Nintendo Co., Ltd., of Kyoto, Japan, manufactures and
markets hardware and software for its Wii U™ and Wii™ home
consoles, and Nintendo 3DS™ and Nintendo DS™
families of portable systems. Since 1983, when it launched the Nintendo
Entertainment System™, Nintendo has sold more than 4.2
billion video games and more than 673 million hardware units globally,
including the current-generation Wii U, Nintendo 3DS and Nintendo 3DS
XL, as well as the Game Boy™, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS,
Nintendo DSi™ and Nintendo DSi XL™, Super NES™,
Nintendo 64™, Nintendo GameCube™ and Wii systems.
It has also created industry icons that have become well-known,
household names such as Mario™, Donkey Kong™,
Metroid™, Zelda™ and Pokémon™.
A wholly owned subsidiary, Nintendo of America Inc., based in Redmond,
Wash., serves as headquarters for Nintendo’s operations in the Western
Hemisphere. For more information about Nintendo, please visit the
company’s website at http://www.nintendo.com.
EDITOR'S
HYPERBOLE NOTE: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Well, actually, I have a ton of coins to spend and it will be
interesting to see what they replace it with. Okay. Bring on physical
rewards and stuff. - Philip
Wesley (Main
Editor)
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