Although Club Nintendo has announced that they will soon be gone for good, that doesn’t seem to be stopping them from throwing in some new rewards for fans to cash in their coins just a few months away from closing date… at least in Japan.
Club Nintendo of Japan has announced a whole new batch of rewards, including a few Zelda-themed goodies. For those of you in North America who have been keeping your eye on Club Nintendo rewards…
Way back in September, we learned that Japan received the A Link Between Worlds soundtrack, in the form of a Club Nintendo reward. A month later, photographs of the Japanese soundtrack surfaced, leaving the rest of the world green with envy.
Just when we’d given up hope of the elusive CD ever getting a Western release, Nintendo surprised Europe with the soundtrack last week, again as a Club Nintendo reward. People have now started to receive the CD, and we have an up close and personal view…
A little under two weeks ago, Nintendo announced that they would be discontinuing their customer loyalty program known as Club Nintendo. Before all services were to stop on July 1, 2015, they promised to update their available rewards with brand new physical and digital items once February came around. Well, as of today, the new rewards have officially been added…
With the recent announcement that Club Nintendo will be discontinued later this year, Nintendo has promised to continue to fill out their catalog with digital and physical rewards for the next couple of months. Although the North American site states they will start doing so on February, it seems that the European page has gotten a head start. They’ve recently added the A Link Between Worlds Official Soundtrack to their catalog…
With Club Nintendo shutting down and Best Buy canceling pre-orders, our podcast team spends this episode discussing the idea of merchandise and physical rewards vs. digital rewards. We also discuss our favorite gaming giant’s competitors: Microsoft (With their recent windows 10 conference) and Sony (They do stuff too sometimes). We continue to mention the new list of weekly features at ZI, as well as talk about the plethora of Zelda parodies you can find online! It’s a great conversation this week filled with both laughter and depth. Your collection of talking heads for this week is Adam (Does he ever take a week off?), Jake (Just some guy, I guess), Chris (Lovable and foolish as always), and Caleb (He hates games and so should you)…
If you were looking forward to registering Majora’s Mask 3D, the New Nintendo 3DS, or any upcoming games onto your Club Nintendo account, you may have to sit down for a second. Nintendo has just recently announced that they will be discontinuing their customer loyalty program known as Club Nintendo. This is being done so that they can focus on their plans for a new loyalty program. Nintendo promises to share details on this mysterious new program at a later date…
Rare are the days when we hear updates regarding the rewards on Nintendo’s points-based customer rewards system, especially physical rewards. Just recently, the North American Club Nintendo website was updated with three physical rewards, one of which happens to be Zelda-themed. While this is not a brand-new rewards, the scarcity of these kind of updates makes it something to enjoy.
Priced at 400 coins…
Club Nintendo just added three amazing Smash posters to their collection, and they’re completely amazing.
You can buy all three of them for only 700 coins on the North American Club Nintendo website.
The posters feature Rosalina, Palutena, and Villager, three of the newcomers on Super Smash Bros. Wii U and 3DS…
Nintendo UK has released a commercial for Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS entitled ‘A Link to the Smash’. It is basically a Link love fest, as fans describe why Link (or Toon Link in one case) is their favourite Smash character. Check out the video below the cut. Catty GreentreeI am a writer, blogger, and internet humourist. www.zeldadungeon.net/wiki/User:Cattygreentree
For those Zelda fans who are on the fence about Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo UK has a trailer with a focus on our hero. In the recently released “A Link to the Smash” video, Nintendo interviews Smash fans (some in costume!) regarding how they feel about the new game and how Link plays in it. Those interviewed seem to agree that Link has been improved since previous entries and is a very versatile character (e.g. long-range attacks, short-range, etc.), although some note that…
