The only news in this non-unnews piece was that there is a brand spanking new Pikmin coming.

So, how high ranking is her Jedi mind trick so far?

No, we knew that. The real news was that we'd get credit towards Club Nintendo from old registrations. :)

Yeah, they definitely like you more than us. I just got 50 stars for my birthday, whoopde-fricking-doo. If I save them up I'll be able to buy 100 Wii points in 8 years. Wait, no, I won't since they are only valid for one year.

I don't think she was putting enough smiles on enough faces in this interview. 

You know what might work to my advantage?  I don't have very many registrations on Nintendo's site.  I figured there was no point in bothering unless they offered a cool incentive.  Why should I give Nintendo free market research?  I haven't registered anything in years.

But since I haven't registered any of my Wii games Nintendo may interpret them as new purchases.  It would be like I just bought a Wii and bought a few games. ;)

Ian, I think you're misinterpreting.  The question isn't whether games you've already registered will count, it's whether the codes that are already out there will count.  Registering old codes that you've never submitted before is no different than registering those codes years ago.

On top of that, those codes only apply to Nintendo products.  In my case, first party soft/hardware only account for a third of the Wii crap I own.  Will CAMMIE reward us for supporting 3rd parties as WELL?

Forget it, if it's anything like Japan or Europe you'll get a separate points card with the game that contains the code you have to enter, no card = no points. In Europe many games don't include any card, I think it's mostly Nintendo-published games that contain them. In Japan it seems like third party games include cards as well.

So if I buy a brand new copy of Super Mario Galaxy for example that just happens to have been on the shelf longer than the post-Club Nintendo manufactured copy next to it I could get screwed out of my Club Nintendo points?  Wow, that f*cking sucks.

That's a dumb way to do it.  So Nintendo will naturally do it that way.

I think only counting first party products is perfectly acceptable.  Having this sort of thing for third party titles would really be going above and beyond the call of duty.

Pure speculation, but I'd imagine they'd just not include any Club Nintendo codes in any games that were released prior to the program going live (regardless of the manufacture date).  I believe that's what they did they they first introduced the registration codes.

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Yes!  "Nintendumb" is an awesome term!  I'm totally going to use that from now on. :)

How did they do the registration codes with Player's Choice games?  Did a game gain a code when it went Player's Choice?  I'm curious since Nintendo more or less brags about how they aren't going to do Player's Choice anymore.

Oh snap, "Nintendumb" is great.  Not that I would ever use it, no, not me.