Nintendo likes money. People like giving Nintendo money. It is a win win situation for all that is involved. You would think that generally a company has to release a compelling product to have people give them money, but oh ho, not where Nintendo’s concerned.
Club Nintendo is out. Apparently, all those games you registered with your Nintendo.com account can be worth points if you take Surveys for them.
Currently, the site is being hammered, so expect sudden Username/Password rejections and logouts. Or your todo list, which lists the available surveys you can take on your registered games, not updating. I’d recommend waiting, but then someone may register and they’ll sell out of their few available items.
If you haven’t registered your games, that’s probably for the better. You’ll get +10 bonus points if you declare intent to buy BEFORE registering the game itself. Since the whole Wii game is only worth 40 (50? Reported, but I only got 40), +10 is quite a bit.
Completing a “completion” survey within 4 weeks of a games launch will also net you another +10.
Typical Asian
I just wanted to comment on the picture and mention that I think I’ve been desensitized to asian stereotyping. I didn’t even pay any attention to the commercial until after John Stewart used it as an example of current racial stereotyping. I thought to myself “You know what self, should I be mildly offended”. Of course, then there’s South Park that takes it to a new level.
I first played Theme park when it was a DOS game that would be unplayablely slow on my 20 mhz 486 when I set the resolution to 1024×768. I didn’t have a sound card, so the barfing sounds of the people getting sick from the rollercoasters were just digitized beeps.