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Club Nintendo being Shut Down
REDMOND, Wash., Jan. 20, in the year of our Lord 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.
Nintendo has been under fire lately for being anti-Christian.
Numerous members of Family Friendly Gaming Nation have told us
they have been expressing this opinion in the Club Nintendo
surveys. Nintendo shut down their website online message boards
when the same accusation and facts were presented to them there.
It is curious Nintendo shuts these things down when faced with
opinions they do not want to hear.