Topic: Europeans Can Purchase VC Games With Stars

[Ceric]

Three Weeks early might have been good if the Wii was "Feature Complete."  In other words if all the channels, Internet, News, Weather, worked out of the box and the VC was steadly supplied and better then a trickle so we be right there with the Japanese launch.

[King of Twitch]

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Originally posted by: Dirk Temporo

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Originally posted by: MJRx9000
NA- Timely launch
Japan- Lower price and wider selection of VC games
Europe- Free wii points

Glass is one-third full or one-third empty for everyone, depending on how you look at it.

Hardly. How does a three week earlier launch make up for free money or better game selection? I'll give you a hint, it doesn't.

I did not say I liked the $40ish Wii Sports bundle, broken features, and not having good VC games. I was saying their incompetance is different in each region.  

[Dirk Temporo]

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Originally posted by: MJRx9000

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Originally posted by: Dirk Temporo

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Originally posted by: MJRx9000
NA- Timely launch
Japan- Lower price and wider selection of VC games
Europe- Free wii points

Glass is one-third full or one-third empty for everyone, depending on how you look at it.

Hardly. How does a three week earlier launch make up for free money or better game selection? I'll give you a hint, it doesn't.

I did not say I liked the $40ish Wii Sports bundle, broken features, and not having good VC games. I was saying their incompetance is different in each region.

But it's not as equal as you made it sound.

[KDR_11k]

Hardly. How does a three week earlier launch make up for free money or better game selection? I'll give you a hint, it doesn't.

The only "free" money you get is five stars a day if you visit the NoE homepage daily. VERY rarely a questionnaire. The biggest source of stars are consoles (500 stars) and games published by Nintendo (250 stars, third party games = 0 stars) and considering how much more expensive they are in Europe compared to the US you're better off converting those 25$ we pay extra on games directly into Wii points. Oh and don't forget that we get the worst selection of games.

[Acefondu]

Yeah, I'd hate to live in Europe. Doesn't sound like they're "free points" at all. However, I'm the type of guy who has 34 things registered on My Nintendo with a few I just didn't bother adding. So, that would accumulate for me. Still, I'd hate HATE to have the Europe selection of actual video games. Few and far between, always...

[TJ Spyke]

Another reason that MyNintendo sucks. Europe gets points for everything they register and can use them for free stuff. The only things we got are the pink DS stylus for registering Kirby: Canvas Curse and the Zelda Collector's Edition disc.

[KDR_11k]

"Free stuff" being merchandise (tshirts, bags, etc) with a Nintendo logo if you register 10 games or so (per piece) and get there before they are sold out. I WISH we got that collector's edition disc.

[Ian Sane]

"They ask us to register our games, but they never ever give us any incentive."

I know.  I haven't registered anything since the Metroid Prime 2 demo disc.  And it's not like I've intentionally not registered to stick to da man or anything like that.  I've just outright forgotten because there is no reason for me to remember to.  I don't think NOA even knows I have a DS.

I think we still have it better off in North America since we actually have games released on a timely schedule.  Is swag worth having games delayed or cancelled outright?  Still much like pretty much everything Nintendo does MyNintendo is a huge waste of potential.  NOA seems to have good ideas in theory and then f*cks them up in execution.  They need to just come up with the general idea and then pass it off to someone who knows what they're doing.

[UncleBob]

I register everything just so Nintendo knows I love them.

I bought a Pokémon GBA Video for $1.50 just so I could register it in hopes of more Nintendo love.

(Also, I wanted a GBA Video for some time, just to check it out and test it with the GBPlayer/Action Replay and Game Port Advance...)

[vudu]

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I register everything just so Nintendo knows I love them.

I do the same thing.  If nothing else, if I ever need to call up Nintendo and complain about something they can look at my file, see I give them way too much money and maybe they'll be a little more willing to help me out.