Club Nintendo Releases New Rewards In Fire Sale, Servers Go Down

[scolaner]

Late last night, which would have been early morning for the Japan-based company, Nintendo listed its final wave of rewards for users to redeem, but company's servers couldn't handle the load.

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[p05esto]

Nintendo should start re-releasing classic NES games and peripherals. NES is sorta hot right now, on eBay prices are as much or HIGHER than they ever sold new for. So many sites dedicated to aftermarket NES stuff (which is just poor quality).

 

[TheNumberOneShmuck]

Nintendo announced on January 20 that it will be shutting down its Club Nintendo this year after more than six years in operation. Although the company did not say why

They did say why. They're shutting down Club Nintendo to replace it with a new loyalty program. Says it right on the discontinuation notice page:

http://club2.nintendo.com/program-notice/

 

[IInuyasha74]

Apologies, it does appear that the link you posted says the shutdown is because of needing to focus attention on a new rewards program.

The original report used:
http://press.nintendo.com/articles.jsp?id=42417

Says a new rewards program will be setup at a later date, it did not say that was the reason for shutting down Club Nintendo, and that information was omitted as a result.