Pokémon Bank and Poké Transporter to Include Club Nintendo Coins

Hardcore Gamer: Earlier this week we reported that Pokémon Bank received a last minute delay and the release date was changed to TBD.

[admiralvic]

Awesome news! Looks like I am one step closer to almost affording that Luigi statue.

[ChaosKnight]

But it costs money doesn't it?

[admiralvic]

$5 per year, but there is a 30 day trial at launch. If this works like every other freebie, it will appear during the trial. Especially since Nintendo can pool experiences and improve the service (assuming they actually do something with the CN data).

[Summons75]

Yeah but if you're sweating about 5 bucks a year you probably shouldn't be gaming, or any cloud related service.

[Moncole]

Sony and MS should make their own version of Club Nintendo Coins because they make people buy new games because you can get prizes with them.

[admiralvic]

Club Nintendo is a lot like Online Passes. Sure some games have them and sure they can add / do some neat things, but the average person doesn't care and it doesn't drive sales.

The average gamer knows Nintendo isn't known for lowering MSRP or having sales and CN has a general 1:1 dollar to coin average (at least when the thing first launches, this changes over time, but it is still generally a 1 dollar = 1 coin system). This means that Luigi's Mansion statue requires roughly $1,500 worth of games to obtain. This is more than the average person can budget on Nintendo games and a lot of people find the elite rewards hard enough to obtain. Not to mention, filling out 20 surveys and spending $600 dollars isn't very high on many peoples to do list.

Anyway, with that being said, M$ does Xbox Rewards, which works a lot different and Sony does digital rewards too. I doubt either will adopt a system like Square Enix, which might suck, but I can't stress this enough, the average person doesn't care about CN coins.

[GenericNameHere]

Ohh... I thought it meant instead of BP or Pokémiles, we'd be able to get Club Nintendo coins too. This article seems kinda, well, useless since everything you buy on the eShop already gives you surveys that earns you CN coins.

[admiralvic]

1) Everything you buy from the eShop does not give you a survey. Certain things are excluded and other things are included. Since these are technically services, I could understand thinking they're excluded.
2) Pokemon Bank and Poke Transporter are give a 30 day trial at launch. The point of the article is to download them THEN and get the surveys.
3) Nintendo jumps back and forth on what promotions they want to do. For instance, Pokedex 3D was free (I believe it still is) in the base form and gives a survey. The Animal Crossing Wii U app is also free, but doesn't give coins. Wii Fit U Trial Edition is a demo, but it still gives you 10 coins for downloading and Tanks Tanks Tanks use to give a survey in its base Free 2 Play model.

[GentlemenRUs]

Umm, The start of Microtransactions on the 3DS? LOL.

[wingman32x]

That's pretty cool. Kind of pointless for me though since I'm already Platinum.

As for the Luigi statue, I'm about 520 coins away. Not only do I not know if I'll be able to get them in time, but I would pretty much have to forfeit next year's elite status to get it. I'm not a big enough fan of Luigi's Mansion to do that.