The discontinuation of Club Nintendo isn’t specific to just any region; it’s an international shutdown of the long-running rewards programme.
With this in consideration, Nintendo Australia has today issued an email to local fans down under thanking them for their ongoing support over the years, and notifying current users about the upcoming changes.
From the 1st of April, Nintendo will no longer include product registration cards in its game and system packaging, and will terminate registration of digital products downloaded from the Nintendo eShop on 20th April.
The ability to submit surveys, spend stars, and sign up to Club Nintendo will terminate on 30th September, with Nintendo advising users exchange any remaining star points for exclusive catalogue items over the coming months.
In a similar fashion to other regions, Australia and New Zealand fans who sign up to Nintendo’s new programme during the launch period will be able to download a free copy of Flipnote Studio 3D for 3DS.
Club Nintendo was originally launched in Australia and New Zealand in 2008, and had a bumpy run from start to finish, with limited stock, and only a handful of premium catalogue items ever making their way to local shores.
We can only hope Nintendo’s new loyalty programme goes onto bigger and better things, and most importantly, learns from the mistakes of its forerunner.
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Please no forced-paid subscription, like some of you PS+ fanboys are a asking, to play online. I only play MK8 and will play Splatoon online.
I also hope we get at least a one-time NNID name change.
Uh, is Australia not receiving bonus rewards in February like America?
Or am I just going to have to waste all of my (Australian) Stars?
@Plainsville Nintendo Australia will apparently be topping up the catalogue over the coming months, so there'll be plenty to spend your stars on.
Sweet! We still get to use club nintendo until October! Looking foward to seeing what kinds of new rewards we will get in the coming months.
I liked club Nintendo and receiving the little gifts every now and then. I use my Pikmin Tote bag all the time!! I will miss it, but onto bigger and better things I am sure!!
@Plainsville Were getting bonus rewards? Weird, I just read of the catalogue being topped up like everywhere else.
With all due respect, I hate subscription services. Forget about it for a month, and you've wasted money. Also, when you look at them at a year by year basis, they're always more expensive than you think. Even $5 a month is $60 a year, the price of a full Wii U game!
@BensonUii, I use online for more games than that, but only one or two times a month, maybe. I'd hate to pay the same rate as everyone else for that.
@Tsurii897 yeah, I see the part about them adding more reawrds.... but what is to say Australia isn't doing that too and besides. Club Nintendo in NA pretty much has nothing anyway. Every other region has a much wider array of stuff.
I got the two physical DS "Game and Watch" games, and was saving the points for something physical... but who know what will be available now.
I will have to check the forums for trading points codes as I have a double up of one game I cant redeem again and some EU codes there is no point in redeeming
It's the same in Europe..
I got the two Game and Watch Collection games, but yeah, there's never been anything else worth buying on the Aussie CN.
@Savino The biggest issue with PS+ is you don't actually own any of the games you get for "free". It's pretty much a rental service where the rental ends when your subscription expires. Sure Games With Gold has a worse collection of games but you actually own them, even if you become a silver member (i.e. not buying subscription).
@Savino I don't spend $50 a month on new games. And I have Wii U, Xbox One, PS3 and 4 3DS's in my house. I also don't have Xbox Live Gold - Wii U is my online console of choice.
@Grumblevolcano Not on Xbox One though - only on 360 do you still keep them if your paid membership expires.
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