My Nintendo Physical Rewards Have Disappeared In North America

I've completely stopped checking My Nintendo after they removed anything of value to warrant getting those platinum coins for. Last thing I got was a set of posters. Now it just serves to keep count of my gold coins so I can use them to get reduced prices on games.

_{(Laughs in “never had them”)}

Erm I mean… That’s odd!

If I hadn't gotten an e-mail about getting points I never would have forgotten its existence.

The kinda-cool things offered are typically 800 platinum points, and I'm always hovering around 700, which isn't enough. My platinum points never get used - always expire before I hit 800 points.

I've gotten a couple of physical rewards here in the US, the ACNH cheap plastic bag and the red plastic Mario earbud holder. I probably paid more in shipping - $5 each - than they were worth but gotta use those Plat points on something. 🤑

They probably just took them offline temporarily while they raise the shipping rates. 😂

I miss Club Nintendo.

There were physical rewards for My Nintendo?

I've been out of the loop, it seems...

@The_BAAD_Man

Those were the best times.

I suppose in Nintendo’s eyes, North Americans hate robust physical goods.

@rjejr 5USD is OK. In europe it costs 7€/8.12USD if you dont live in Germany
and you need to keep in mind that average european income is a lot lower than average american income

Nintendo keeps going backward instead of forward, very frustrating and disappointing.

That's OK! We can still use those for... CHECKS 3DS themes, freemium currency, and desktop/phone wallpapers!

Broken ROMs on premium service and removing rewards….. Nintendo clearly think their fans have been very naughty and need punishing. Strange days strange decisions.

I loved getting and not using the physical My Nintendo garbage…not even being sarcastic. I’m really glad I managed to snag the Metroid Dread posters before they delisted them. This really sucks.

Shoutout to the original Club Nintendo rewards. I'm still actively using the DS/3DS cases years later since they hold 18 games each. Best money I never spent.

Petition to revive Club Nintendo

@Martijn87 Oh yes. I didn't get a huge amount of things, but I got some! Some CDs, a mug, Majora's Mask lamp, some coins...actual rewards and not smart phone wallpapers.

I noticed this the other day. You can still access the item on the Nintendo Store under Special Offers > My Nintendo, but it still requires a code to access them, which is no longer linked.

You can still grab the remaining Metroid Dread posters, but thats about it.

I guess now I can stop wasting my Platinum Points on physical junk and focus them all on jpeg wallpapers for 50 coins a piece.

In all seriousness, I was the kind of fanboy that would still collect weekly log in bonuses and complete weird "find the hidden item" missions for each new game. I have so much Club Nintendo/MyNintendo crap that is still unopened. I wonder if it'll be worth anything.

@T0biasCZe this changed earlier this year (in the UK anyway) - it's only £1.99 for shipping and you can combine with other orders from the Nintendo store

@The_BAAD_Man : Their CDs were da bomb.

My Nintendo is a complete waste. Which is a shame, because Club Nintendo was awesome. Still have some great goodies I got from them.

I guess this means that the WarioWare buttons won't be getting a restock as those were manufactured in the US.

My Nintendo in Australia is operating as per normal by the way.

Hasn’t been new rewards for a while.

Stars Catalogue ❤️

I remember using 1000 points to get early access to the Nintendo DS with Super Mario 64 DS and a couple of Demos. Was so awesome.

I also got Donkey Konga 2 and the Bongos with Stars as well. Was SO awesome.

Personally I just got the Metroid Posters and thats all good. But I do miss the days of Club Nintendo and the yearly rewards you would receive. But this had some decent rewards. Just started off in such bad light I get why many people didnt even know they did physical rewards

Welp, looks like they're packing up the awful rewards. What a shame(?). Wouldn't be surpirsed if this spread to the other regions too.

Maybe they realised not enough people were getting the cheap paper products they were offering and as such are rethinking the rewards they offer...

Hopefully...

@Silly_G Absolutely! The free double-CD for getting both Smash Bros Wii U and 3DS is ace.

@d-slice Tell me about it! I was just thinking about those the other day, as I recently got the Switch one that only holds 8. Better than nothing I suppose, but I’m sure they could hold more if they’d managed the space in the case better…

It was all cheap tat anyway. The decent physical rewards stopped years ago.

@The_BAAD_Man : Proud owner of that gem too. My personal favourite though is the 2-disc Endings set that was issued just prior to Club Nintendo's termination.

I even surrendered a few limbs to buy some of the Japanese exclusive CDs via eBay a little while ago.

We had lackluster rewards compared to europe and japan, and now we get nothing? COME ON!

Honestly I was just using this for the free 1 week trials of NSO. They were handing them out like every other week but it's been a while since the last one. Was hoping to use Sora online but I'm not paying ninty for the awful service

The items haven’t been good since the Wii era. It’s about time they shut this down. It’s clear they haven’t wanted to spend time or money on it anyways!

Nintendo should just stop with the whole "My Nintendo" stuff. It doesn't add anything.

Physical rewards has never been available in Russia, if I don't confuse. So, I'm don't lost nor gain anything.

I'm still hoping we get the Metroid Dread posters over here. I think I've got enough points now.

I’m sure it’s only temporary, it happened recently before the put a restock of a bunch of the rewards. (Believe it was shortly after the Metroid posters went out of stock the first time)

@Silly_G Nice! I couldn't scramble together enough points for that one, so my final reward was the MM lamp. Good times.

@cmdrmarc yeah it Changed only in UK, because you were coco crazy And left EU, so they needed to make UK warehouse, So they remade the whole systém for you
We still have the old system that allows only 1 item per order

@InkIdols You had lot better items in America than we in Europe

No, no. We did not. And as a canadian, i got nothing!

It wasn't like there were that many, especially of note. They could at the very least add some Switch rewards instead of Wii U and 3DS.

I think the only thing that ever interested me was the phone ring holder that was shaped like shulks monado. I was never able to get one though

@The_BAAD_Man : I will forever kick myself for squandering my remaining points on downloadable 3DS games that I'll probably never play instead of extra Kirby dream blankets.

I have just the one, still wrapped, but I can't bear to use it knowing that I can never get another one.

@T0biasCZe wow we finally found one good thing that came out of Brexit 😉

@Yorumi I don't actually. I think everyone was negative about it when My Nintendo first came out.

In any case, I think this is just a mistake on their part and the physical rewards will be back soon. I usually grab the posters, even played Animal Crossing Pocket Camp to get platinum coins every week to get the posters. Last thing I grabbed was the acrylic Skyward Sword poster and was trying to get the Metroid one. Oh well.

It seems like sales, SWAG, rewards and other goodwill measures have been much less of a focus since Reggie left.

Glad I got my Metroid poster order in two weeks ago.

Makes me question why Nintendo of America is cheaping out again all of a sudden. They went from absolutely free rewards (from purchasing games) to arbitrary discounts on the Wii U and 3DS to rewards that force you to pay for shipping to no rewards again. Nintendo's strategy with merchandise is absolute garbage.

@ModdedInkling : Nintendo must be doomed again.

I just think the availability period for these items expired. I think everything was going to be removed on October 25th at 2 a.m. Eastern Time like it said on all of the item pages and they don't have new items yet.

@Browny yeah but the rewards weren't as good as Club Nintendo's

Nintendo is really resting on its success lately and becoming more and more anti consumer.

They have had some cool things, but unfortunately most of the time the high shipping costs made these "free" products just not worth it in my opinion. Six or seven bucks to ship out a plastic Mario coin or something that's supposed to be free? Or a few rubber Super Mario Bros. series keychains? There were multiple occasions where I was entitled to something free, but the shipping cost was far more expensive than I thought the entire product itself was even worth. Sad to see it go, but I rarely even bothered to get any physical products from the service to begin with. Oh well.

@ModdedInkling *Nintendo of America merchandise strategy
Not Nintendo merchandise strategy

Gosh darn it! I was hoping to pick up a keychain.

The rewards on MyNintendo are not my cup of tea. As someone had mentioned earlier, Club Nintendo was much more worthwhile for me. I can't remember the last time I got something on MyNintendo.

@T0biasCZe Yeah at those prices I may not be ordering anything.

Europe just has 1 Nintendo store right? Wondering if mail costs more delivering it across country borders. I think UK has it's own last I checked.

@Yorumi It's a shame. Although Club Nintendo in North America was kind of awful, it was leagues better than what we have now.

Pretty sure it's just temporary. If they were intent on killing it off, they'd probably have a formal announcement.

They made progress beyond their original offerings of stationary, so hopefully they keep stepping it up.

I miss the discounts you could unlock with platinum and gold points. Picked up a lot of great 3DS games like Earthbound and Oracle of Seasons and Ages. With the physical rewards, it felt like you were redeeming points to unlock the chance to buy an item for $7. It was disappointing how cheap most of those items were, too (like sticker packs). For me, it wasn’t worth it and I’ve stopped paying attention to My Nintendo.

NoA sucks. They don't even bother trying to offer the same cool stuff as Japan or Europe. Never have even with Club Nintendo

I still play animal crossing pocket camp so I’m always getting a lot of coins. I usually use them before they expire and save it up to ship a bunch at once to make the shipping worth it. There’s some decent stuff in there, so I hope it’s not over for good.

It’s no club nintendo though, sadly lol

I literally just ordered something last week, surely this must be a glitch... If not that is disappointing.

@T0biasCZe
I hope you were reading my comment properly. I started off my comment talking about Nintendo of America, which means I was talking about Nintendo of America.

@rjejr Europe has 1 store for whole europe. The shipping price is 4euros for germany and 7euros for everywhere else, no matter where you ship it

If we didn't have to pay shipping. I'd be okay with buying something with my points. Shipping is ridiculous and needs to get rid of permanently. Like I don't get paid enough for a dollar or two for shipping, it's ridiculous. If shipping were free for everything (just like this country technically), I'd buy things that I would want, no matter the cost. I hate shipping and handling

@ThomasBW84 I am thinking this has gotta be a glitch or someone accidentally did this. The "news" item for the Dread poster set is still on the My Nintendo home page.

Though I will admit when you go to the item, it says the reward is no longer available... :-/

Maybe they're gearing up for an overhaul? One can only hope.

Welcome to the club.

They do this every few months. It has always come back, sometimes with new stuff. The first time this happened I kind of freaked out.

This happens like ... all the time. Some physical rewards show up, a day later there are gone and the physical rewards section goes with them. This happened with the Zelda plates from a few months ago and the posters a month or so after that. There was also a full year (at least) with no physical rewards after the first redesign.

This doesn't tell us anything.

@Yorumi

Fair enough. I never really engaged in the conversations back in the day. I was always skeptical but was able to accept it for what it was.

Awww. Last thing I got was the Mario Xmas tree bulb and the paper Mario stuff. I enjoyed that.. sigh @ nintendo

I feel this is for the best. Opportunists have created a very real problem in the US. Instead of using points to obtain items for oneself, it has become practice of obtain them and sell the on eBay for ridiculous prices. It is so bad, inventory sells out so fast, any true collectors miss out and are forced to pay these people. Nintendo never intended these to be ‘business opportunities’. So its ruined and best to just let it go.

I knew it wasn’t just my account!!

@Yorumi I'm so jealous of you! I didn't get into gaming until 2019 or so, and by then, Club Nintendo was long gone and My Nintendo was circling the drain.

People still try to get Nintendo Rewards? Impressive.
I always found that their rewards are straight garbage, so I couldn't care less about losing them.

Yeah, I noticed this a few days ago. I've gotten a few decent rewards, like the Skyward Sword acrylic panel art and Mario 3D All-Stars poster set. Some other things I got just to use up points and then sell, so my points wouldn't completely go to waste. But with this development, it's entirely pointless to even bother getting more points. (For me, that is. For others, it became pointless long ago, lol.)

y does nintedno hait america?

Why is the US the worst out of all the countries to get physical rewards? Gosh, we get nothing over here... this sucks!

Our physical rewards are probably stuck on a cargo ship in the Long Beach port with no one to unload it.

@rjejr Yeah that's why I never bothered with anything they offered..a reward is supposed to be something freely given to you for accomplishing something...not making you pay for it and calling it free.

They're probably just out of stock at the moment. Not much reason to list the rewards when nobody can acquire 'em.

So it wasn't just me, I noticed this last night as well. WTF?!?!?

That's a shame. I was kind of holding out for the Hylian Shield phone ring (saw it on Japan's My Nintendo page). But I gotta say though, I don't think I'll miss the physical rewards. Most of the stuff there didn't pique my interest and what actually did (even marginally) was gone in no time.

That's not good if they are willing to take our money they should provide the products for us.

Most of the rewards were "temporarily out of stock" for months so hopefully it just means the service is being refreshed and will be back with good content...
...I can hope, right?

I'd trade shoddy overpriced emulation to bring physical rewards back.

MyNintendo had Physical Rewards??????

@UglyCasanova Club Nintnedo - from which i have many things, maybe a dozen, always shipped for free.

Just realized it's bad that MyNintnedo took away physical rewards but really what's worse is that after 4 1/2 years there are still no digital rewards for Switch, just 3DS, mobile and PC. Nintendo launched them around the same time but continues to shaft Switch owners, it's a joke. 😝

I'm glad I ordered those Dread posters last week! That was like almost all of my coins, too!

Just in time to have about 1,100 expire in the next 40 days... Guess I'll get like 20 phone backgrounds?

Nintendo been making weird decisions for the last 10 years where we got Club Nintendo physical rewards and not some useless digital crap like they have on My Nintendo.

@Vortexeo So that's the true power of the Monado!

I recently redeemed the WarioWare pins set, but when I went to the store to order them I realized they had recently increased US shipping from $5 to $7. It's not a big difference, but it's enough to make you rethink paying that much for a "free" reward.

UK My Nintendo hasn't had anything new for a while. Why aren't they printing more posters at least?

I noticed everything was gone a month or two ago. Would be nice if they'd give us something practical to do with our Platinum Coins, but I'm guessing they're just going to let it die out like Club Nintendo (RIP).

Where are the physical rewards? Are they safe? Are they alright?

@MH4 i got the Mario 3D world catsuit keychain that I will never put on my keys because what if something happens to it haha

@GannonBanned Right? 😂 I got the Xenoblade phone holder shaped like the Monado thinking “I’ll use that maybe” but now it’s still unopened and sitting in a storage bin. I doubt the My Nintendo stuff I have will be worth much going forward, but you never know, I suppose.

Is there a physical reward for slapping Nintendo in the face for not doing cloud save backup for Pokémon?

The last time Club Nintendo was worth messing around with was during the 3DS era. In the Switch era it was just a hollowed out shell. I remember how I used to be able to use gold coins for everything, so I was literally being rewarded for my purchases. In the Switch era they made you use those "platinum coins" for everything and those weren't really associated with any actual purchases, just some stuff you do on their website. That just totally killed it for me. I've been using my gold points for discounts ever since, usually just to get some really cheap game for free when it's on sale.

Bad move Nintendo, bad move...

This has happened before for a couple weeks. Not too long ago actually, within the last 4 months. No story about it then, tho...?

@WoomyNNYes only way to really earn them is weekly log in to my Nintendo (30), sign in on Nintendo.com (30 per week), 10 per month for staying opted in for marketing emails, & 30 per week for 3DS eShop sign in (need a new battery so i don't do this one). Occasionally they have a "find 4 snow cones on the Christmas game website" type of things for 100 points. U have to basically go out of ur way to earn them tho, or have specific intentions at least.

@Asaki exactly, where was the story then?

@twztid13 Well to be fair, most of Nintendo Life are in the UK, and probably don't visit the US sites very often =) And people like us are too lazy to submit that kind of news.

I don't even check very often myself...but a few months ago, I missed out on a prize I wanted, and had quite a lot of coins saved up, so I've been checking regularly to see if anything else good pops up before it goes out of stock.

@WoomyNNYes Just a reminder in case you or anyone else didn't know, you can get 60 platinum coins every week. 30 by visiting Nintendo's main website, and then 30 by visiting the club Nintendo website and clicking on the coin that rolls by at the top of the website banner.

Good thing I got what I wanted. I still have a folding cloth storage basket from the Club Nintendo days, and use it for holding things. It has my Animal Crossing amiibo figures, and other Switch controllers. I even still have all my physical rewards from Club Nintendo, Smash 2-CD set, Majora's Mask Soundtrack, Mario Hat, Mario Pins, Mario and Friends figurine, and the Game & Watch Ball handheld.

@kaptainkarma Oh yeah, that's right. Thanks!

Every day I refresh the UK store just to see if we will ever get those Metroid Dread posters. Very disappointed so far.

Please bring them back!!!!

Not to mad about that. They ruined that years ago when they changed the entire rewards program. Shipping used to be free the items they had to choose from where always worth it and they even have away games, as well as free shipping on all physical items. 5 dollars doesn't seem like much but when they had a great program before then changed it to what it currently is 5 dollars is way too much.

@rjejr I bet your right! 😂

I really hope the physical rewards come back, the others are lame! Last thing I got was the LEGO Mario keychain.