Imagine this. You walk into a store and pick up one of Nintendo’s
recently announced Nintendo Points cards. You come home, toss the number into your Wii and buy
Mega Man 9. After a few hours you realize that you need to rush to the airport to fly to Turkey. You pick up your
DSi and try to purchase a game with the same card (with points still on it) you just used for your Wii. After trying to purchase, you’ll find that your card doesn’t work. It is now bound to your Wii.
Go figure, right? According to a
Siliconera report, Nintendo Points cards can only be used for one console solely. Even if there are points left on the card, consumers won’t be able to apply them to the upcoming DSi store.
Leave it to Nintendo to unify a name, but forget to unify the system. There has to be a screw loose somewhere at Nintendo, I’m sure of it. What do you guys think? Ready to juggle some cards whenever the DSi hits?
Contest:
6:19 PM on 10.07.2008
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How many golden crappers does Miyamoto have now?
Nintendo needs a massive dose of common sense to counteract the OD of 'wtf' that they've evidently taken.
He has 4. The GC, the GC Lite, the GCi and the Wii.
*sighs contentedly* It's been a good few years since I've mustered the courage to make an idiotic 'Wii sounds like wee, which in turn is a childish term for urine' joke.
They really should do something to fix that though. It's fucking 2008.
It's not a huge deal, but if they have unified the point to be called "Nintendo" points, why do I have to designate them to one or the other?
Still though, it's pretty stupid...
Instead of offering tons of little bits to nikel and dime us they'll cheat us out of the bits of points we can't use. Laughing and mocking us as they go take it and buy a coffee at your expense while you sit and stare at your usless left over points that were once useable currency in wich you could buy a snack with yourself.
Oh they are evil monsters.
They better make some way to manage the points and transfer them because this is just stupid crap.
Though its obvious that they are trying to do this on purpose to get small extra bits of cash out of it.
Nintendo could do better, but I don't think they want to.
Until ofcourse some internet nuts all complain at them till their ears bleed. Then they'll finally let your transfer your points.
Ofcourse like the SD card solution it will only be when you have no points in one but some in the other and you've already spent everything you could in the machine with the points. Then it'll prompt you just once if you'd wanna transfer to your DSi, though you'll need to connect your DSi in the next thirty seconds before it cancels out and your stuck with the extra points again.
Fixed but not fixed. That way no one can complain... for the next three weeks....
Really, Nintendo must be doing drugs cause they suddenly forgot how the hell to do things.
Then again Nintendo was always scared of the internet for a reason.
Now we know.
I think I learned something o-o
FAIL.
I wonder if you can use one of those debit cards on the Wii and then switch to regular ol' Nintendo Points cards for the DSi.