Stars For Wii Points On The Way?

By seaempty. Saturday, March 24, 2007 10:38:13 AM

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Ever since the launch of the Wii, Nintendo of Europe have said that soon Europeans will be able to convert their Stars (obtained by registering Nintendo games) into Wii Points to spend on the Virtual Console. Yesterday it seems that Nintendo took its first visual steps toward implementing this.

Wii60 reported that the Stars Catalogue had been updated with the offer of 1000 Wii Points for the price of 789 Stars. Considering that you get 250 Stars for each game you register, this deal seems to be very good. Too good to be true, perhaps?

Indeed that was the case, as the offer was promptly removed, and GoNintendo have reported that it was an error on NOE's part. To me the random amount of Stars did seem a bit odd (and the "Astrid Test" text arouses a bit of suspicion), and I don't think that the final conversion rate will be as generous. As a result there are a lot of people out there who took Nintendo up on their offer, and are now minus 789 Stars and have not got 1000 Wii Points. I'm sure Nintendo will resolve this, and it is good to see that they are getting closer to the point when they can offer this service.

I was hoping that it would be a fixed offer, but it seems that they will be putting a certain amount of Wii Points on the catalogue, and these will be sold on a first-come-first-served basis. I'm sure this will result in frantic rushes to the NOE website when new Wii Points are made available.

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Comments

Matthew Shaw Saturday, March 24, 2007 11:16:53 AM

Dammit! I Almost Thought I Had A Use For My Stars!

StrawHousePig Saturday, March 24, 2007 3:22:32 PM

Too good to be true? Are you kidding? They make a killing on each VC game sold. It's almost pure profit. ZERO manufacturing costs and very little distribution cost. Hell, Apple uses more storage and bandwidth delivering audio files for a buck each!

I think two for one would be more fair since the people with the most stars will most likely be people who buy the most from the VC.

Giovanni MedinaWiidark Saturday, March 24, 2007 6:43:08 PM

Mannn...This is wack! Nintendo of Europe and japan online members always gets the cooler stuff. While Nintendo of America online members gets barely anything or jack squat.

Unregistered user Thursday, March 29, 2007 7:57:37 PM

Anonymous writes: i got that wii point 780 stars thing and i got compensation of 1000 wii points to my account

seaempty Friday, March 30, 2007 6:05:03 AM

Nice one! I thought NOE would compensate somehow.

Unregistered user Monday, May 14, 2007 8:12:28 PM

MasterMario writes: I got a 780 thingy too,I think.:confused:

Unregistered user Monday, May 14, 2007 8:16:53 PM

Anonymous writes: Actually,lol i don't know how to get a pic for my thingy lol:drunk:

Unregistered user Tuesday, June 5, 2007 10:38:44 PM

Anonymous writes: derz ALWAYZ a catch. ALWAYZ

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