Depending on how you feel about the 3DS and Wii U, you may or may not be pleased to hear software discounts for these two systems are no longer being offered on the My Nintendo website in Japan. According to Japanese Nintendo, the page where you could once redeem these rewards no longer exists. If you attempt to navigate to it, you'll get an "Error!" message, informing you the page can not be found. There was no warning about the removal of these discounts, either.
If it wasn't already evident, this is another sign the 3DS is on its way out. Other recent developments have seen Nintendo remove 3DS advertisements from the official webpage in North America, and back over in Japan, the company is ending the YouTube service on the 3D handheld next month. Earlier this week it also received a minor firmware update.
My Nintendo in other regions is likely to remove software discounts for the Wii U and 3DS in the near future. Perhaps some Switch game discounts will finally be added.
[source japanesenintendo.com]
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I’m not surprised, but they really should of given some warning.
Hopefully we do get switch discounts instead one day
Unfortunately, the discounts were usually for something I already purchased. I can't say I'm sad to see 3DS/Wii U discounts discontinued. I would love to see Switch discounts become a thing. Even with my fairly large collection of Switch games, I've passed on enough games that having discounts would push me to pick up some of the games I've missed.
But they were such irresistable deals!
Hallelujah! I'm ready for the monthly My Nintendo announcements to bring excitement and joy instead of moaning and groaning about what used to be and what could have been.
Not that I'm confident that we'll ever return to the glory days of Club Nintendo, but at least give me discounts on the games I'm currently wanting to play.
How about Switch discounts or physical rewards?
Doesn't affect me at all since my Japanese 3DS games are physical.
Also, almost of all my Japanese 3DS games are Hidden Gems Japan Exclusive such as Akogare Girls collection games, Sumikko Gurashi games, AKB48 + Me, JS Girls Doki Doki Model Challenge, Choco Ken, Ochaken no Heya, etc.
Hopefully there are a couple more good rotations before they're fully gone from the NoA My Nintendo. None of the discounts have been useful to me recently, but I wouldn't say I've never gotten any use out of them.
Hopefully Xenoblade Chronicles on the Wii U eShop has a discount again.
Tbh, out of every 10 3DS discounts, there was only 1 or 2 that were really good deals..and they were usually Game Boy titles, such as Wario Land 3 or Warioland. Nintendo is always soooo flipping slow for change and keeping up its customer service and this is no different😑.
Remember when the 'massive change' of Club Nintendo to My Nintendo took place? Massively underwhelming was what is was, thank god they kept the free 3DS themes.
Also the Switch has been out for 2 years and still there is nothing for Switch users on My Nintendo. Pffft !! 😒
Honestly the deals were never all that great so it’s hard to be too mad they’re gone but... I can’t help but feel some frustration that they’re now REMOVING more things from My Nintendo when they haven’t added anything of any SUBSTANCE since... honestly, release I guess? I mean, if they were putting something in place of this I would be ecstatic but it seems like right now the plane is just to make My Nintendo even more useless.
Nobody cared about it anyway
I still frequent the 3DS eshop and once in a while WiiU. This is a solid uh oh
And nothing of value was lost.
I used these occasionally. I picked up Xenoblade 3DS for 40% off and a few VC titles, and that’s it
Some 3DS/Wii U DLC discounts would be nice.
I'm callin it, Nintendo is getting ready to retire the Wii U and 3DS
I guess they doing it as Switch lite is taking over from 3DS this month and it's about time. Those "offers" were a complete joke anyway and have been for years, money off classic games most people bought on day one.
I really hope they put out a Rhythm Heaven Megamix discount in NA one last time before they stop over here.
I dun goofed and missed it last time.
I would be disappointed in this, but I didn't have 300 gold coins to get a 30% discount on disappointment.
@JayJ Wii U's already retired, 3DS, not yet.
It's a while since these were relevant to me. For at least a year the only discounts being offered were for games I either owned or had already decided I didn't want to get. I did use them a couple of times a couple of years ago though.
@GX_64,
I think the fact Nintendo have no supported these consoles in ages,despite the fact they continue to say they are still supporting the 3DS while not actually supporting it with games,should have been all the warning you should have needed.
Nice. Maybe now we can have more than the same two or three themes cycling in every couple months.
I'd be surprised if 3DS and Wii U games disappear from the European My Nintendo service anytime soon. Only a few weeks ago they added some more 3DS discounts and extended the deadline for the last batch of Wii U ones until 1st March 2020.
Also the whole My Nintendo layout is flawed and they left out a lot of good things from Club Nintendo ( I.e exclusive goods, sticker sets, a 3ds stylus sets, coasters, plushes, etc.) so the point gaining has very little to reward you with.
To date I currently have have 7060 platinum points and 124 Gold Points (mainly from Animal Crossing Pocket Camp and FEH) and reached its nadir with Miitomo items. Apart from that, the points have little to redeem them for.
It's not hard: they could have offered certain goods in exchange for points such as posters, Pokémon keyrings, screen cleaning cloths, notepads.. basically any real-life stocking filler items as well as additional themes, free games, codes for DLC, or exclusive demos, but no.....they've never fully expanded on the Rewards scheme effectively and you can't even blame that on regional differences. About 60% of the games on the European eShop have demos for them on the Japanese eShop.. but not on the European eShop. (e.g Dillon's Dead Heat Breakers has a Japanese demo but no European demo... Why not???? Especially as it's a first-party game)
Oh, and quite frankly, I'm surprised Nintendo is still bothering with the Wii U when it has all but in name, dropped it as soon as the Switch came out. Two years later and the state of affairs is this? The consoles were never on life-support until Nintendo decided to make these sudden decisions out of the blue and cripple them and their users severely. @TheRealKyleHyde I wouldn't get my hopes up. They'll probably leave them as foundation as the rest of the content will be pushed out/removed to make way for Switch stuff.
My Nintendo Rewards were embarrassing, to be honest, I can’t imagine too many people took advantage of them. I hope to see something a little more exciting, I haven’t even looked at My Nintendo account in months.
Looks like yesterday was just the day all the remaining discounts expired.
The final 3DS ones ended in May it seems, and the last set of WiiU ones continued on until yesterday, but now they're finished, they removed the page.
If Europe follows suit, the end for My Nintendo discounts could be next March, when the last set of WiiU ones ends here.
@MartyFlan yeah lol cheapskates on my birthday, only the same most popular games get discounted (but not too popular lol let alone every search says no switch). Did get 300 platinum points at least.
Damn new month, did get warned my points expire 10/31/19. Though I only have a 3ds (play switch games on friend's system). Shopping tetris here we go
This cowboy's going for one last ride as Tien would say in his last stand vs Nappa. https://youtu.be/MlZ_aro9nDk?t=49
So My Nintendo now is officially good for nothing (in Japan).
The 'cashback' reward program is good on its own but it doesn't need a service that doesn't do anything...
So unless there will be Switch rewards on it (which would be two years late already), My Nintendo is officially dead.
Oh no. How will my Japanese doppelgänger get by?
In all seriousness, I've used a discount from MyNintendo ONCE. I do use it to get themes for my 3DS and wall paper for my computer. But the discounts on games don't do me any good. Not only do I have a strong preference for physical copies, but even worse, by the time games show up in their discount selection, I've either bought them already or I've decided I'm not interested.
And nothing of value was lost.
@HexagonSun Those discount system is busted. Most of the people already had those games. It's really for people who are a late-commer IMO. I'm even surprised that discount for WII U was still a thing. That system died already right? Please let us move on. At least port some other awesome WII U games to the Switch please. Wind Waker/ Twilight Princess also needs to come to the Switch. These 2 should be released as a bundle on 1 card
@Alucard83 Totally busted, as those late-commers probably wouldn't have the points to take advantage of the discounts. I miss Club Nintendo. It actually made me spend more, as I had to get the platinum reward every year.
I feel you on the Windwaker/Twilight Princess ports. I really want those games on Switch. I would love them bundled on one cart, but I'm hardly expecting that. It makes too much sense.
They were never worth anything anyway. Hard loot is what we need!
Well that sucks
I didn't use the discounts for Wii U and 3DS so much, but I did use most of the Gold Coins for free games. I hope they carry that on for a bit at least as I have a stash of coins left, but they haven't added any of those offers for two months or so
@JayJ Thanks Captain Obvious - now go find me some deals on hotels.
Unless they plan on adding Switch discounts sooner rather than later, they shouldn't have removed this period.
TAKE THAT JAPAN!!!!!
You get all the cool physical rewards and we don't? Well, NOW WE GET DISCOUNTS AND YOU DON'T!!! SO THERE!!!
(I still love Japan, don't get me wrong.)
Just used the Kid Icarus discount and plan to use the Metroid: Sami’s Returns discount in once Kid Icarus downloads (after getting my Sword-Swinging Link theme.
My Nintendo still serves a purpose for me since I was late to the party.
I'm surprised Wii U discounts lasted this long, given that it was discontinued in 2017 lol.
They are really going to kill that eshop aren't they?! I'm not ready yet guys! There a lot of stuff I still need to get
@KoiTenchi It makes me wonder what the point of it is anymore, and how long it’ll continue. I have not used any of the features in I don’t know when.
@johnvboy Yeah, I don't get why people still believed Nintendo with that
Nintendo Life, Nintendo Life, Nintendo Life, you continue screwing up, you're listing the thriving 3DS in with the failure Wii U. Clearly with one lasting 9 years the other lasting 9 months, they wouldn't put both together. This is just the Wii U aren't able to, not the 3DS who continues to sell like hotcakes, remember? Remember, it has no successor as Switch Lite is NOT the successor (proven by Wikipedia), so only the Wii U has no more offerings, not the 3DS. SMH...
Rest well, sweet prince 3DS. You had a fantastic run and it's going to be bittersweet to see you go.
Sucks that you can't add points from physical 3DS purchases. Recently bought Bowser's Inside Story + Bowser Jr's Journey last month.
@Hunt3r_Cr0wl3y I don't know if that will happen considering you can already use gold points to get discounts off any switch game.
@Anti-Matter Do ypu have the 3ds version of dragon quest 11 though ? i'm pissed that that version is Japan exclusive smh. Would have been a nice send off for the 3ds in Europe and North America but unfortunately it wasn't to be
I hope the my nintendo rewards program sticks around for a bit longer in Europe , a lot of the times the discounts are a joke because they games they offer a rubbish or stuff I already own but sometimes you get good stuff like right now super mario 3d land is on discount but i'm sure most people already own it but I don't. I'm also confused as why you can earn gold points on digital switch purchases but switch games aren't available for discount yet
@Badboykilla187
Eh.... I don't play Dragon Quest XI 3DS.
I play mostly Girlie /Fashion and Kawaii games for 3DS Japan version. And they are Japanese Exclusive.
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