Eh, I'm not getting it yet anyway, and 250 Stars won't change my mind.

What a dodgy marketing technique...

This is a pretty bad sign.

250 stars is worth absolutely nothing anyway.

That's like advertising food as coming with a free napkin.

What's the conversion from stars to coins? 250 Coins is a lot here but the average retail game here get's you 50 stars.

This makes me proud to be British.

What's wrong with more stars for registering a game early? Mario Tennis Open is definitely not a bad enough game for this to be some marketing ploy to try and get more people to buy it.....

I need this gameeeeeee.

I have requested this game for my Birthday, which is on the 28th May! And I love me a few extra Stars. So they only giving us the Saturday and Sunday to register?

how many USA coins are UK stars?

250 stars you say? Well in terms of DSiWare cards (which is all I buy with stars) 400 stars = 100 points (90p), so I dont think I'll be buying the game just for that thank you very much...

better than nothing extra! shame the UK club nintendo is running a bit dry on rewards at the mo, got a couple of thousand stars to be put to good use.

I think the ratio is kind of like, 50 coins is 250 stars. So, 1 to 5 ratio.
Either way, I was gonna get the game right at launch anyway so this is a bonus for me! As long as it means other PAL countries other than the UK get this too that is.

Actually, 250 can buy you 2 packs of Kid Ikarus cards, which with these 500, you can get 4 packs.

Not much, but not by any means worthless.

hey i just registered my copy (got it 2 days early) i didnt get an extra 250 WTF

Stop whining.
They don't have to give you anything .
This is an added bonus.

Looks like no bonus for us North American folks...

That's cool!

Wow, some of you need to lighten up. They often give out extra stars for registering certain games early; although it's usually less. You all make it sound like Nintendo is desperate to shift the game.

It still doesn't change the fact that this is one of the most disappointing Mario titles since... Well, since forever.

@Nightwalker

Are you basing that on personal experience or another's opinion?

Personal, madam.

Keep in mind guys that 3DS titles don't sell that well in Europe (compared to Japan, at least), though it must be said this is a Mario game (Mario games always sell)!

On Metacritic it gets a 7 on average, wich means that it isn't fantastic. But it's also far from a stinker!

People did expect to much from this game, with rpg mode and all. I guess this was a quicky for Camelot. I mean it got released pretty short after the first trailer.

Anyway, I buy it! It may not be great, but I guess it's still fun!