A first-impression review of the new "My Nintendo" accounts; what it does, and how it can improve.

My Nintendo just launched recently, and while many have signed up, there's still going to be that sub-set of gamers that won't bother with it until they know what's on offer, and what they can do to/how easy it is to earn points.

You've got both daily and weekly missions, alongside one-time bonus missions.

Daily missions ALONE earn you up to 35 Platinum coins per day, meaning you get 245 per week if you're consistent with doing the tasks once per day.
The daily missions generally consist of things like changing your Mii's clothes once per day, getting 5 likes for your answers per day, and other small, easy tasks.

You also get 60 Platinum coins per week if you sign in to Miiverse and the Eshop once per week.

So all totaled up, you can potentially earn 305 Platinum coins per week via sign-ins and Miitomo missions combined.

The one-time missions, which can earn you hundreds of Platinum coins, will likely be the reason behind the first 400 or so P-coins you earn, even before including the daily missions, will consist of things like linking your Google, Facebook, Twitter, and NNID accounts to either Miitomo or the My Nintendo account.

About 50 of your Platinum coins will go towards "Coin Boxes" on the service, a one-time purchase that creates three boxes on the front screen which hold all your coins of the various types.

Miitomo and regular Platinum coins all count towards your Platinum coin count, despite the small difference of a blue logo on the Miitomo P-coins and a separate box on the front of the site to hold them.

As expected, Gold Coins work just like the old Club Nintendo points did; purchasing games nets you gold coins in varying amounts depending on the price of the game.

The downside, is that now that there aren't any codes within the boxes of games to input anymore, the G-coins are awarded via digital purchases, so if you want to take advantage of the G-coins in the program until Nintendo adds in a way to benefit from physical purchases, you'll want to have extra/external storage space handy for E-shop purchases.

Amounts vary from 10 G-coins for a game valued between $5 and $9.99 at the lowest, all the way up to 80 G-coins for a $70+ game at the highest.
For example, a $10 to $19.99 valued game would net you 20 G-coins, and if you went the extra $1 to a $20 game, you'd get 30 G-coins.
Basically, the rewarded G-coin amount, starting at 10 G-coins for a $9.99 game, will go up by ten for every $10 mark you hit.

As for the rewards, in general, the majority of the games use G-coins, but there are a few games that you can receive a one-time discount of 15% off at the moment using PLATINUM coins, instead, which are by far the easier currency to earn.

The discounts for P-coins apply towards Wind Waker HD, Yoshi's Woolly World, TLOZ: A Link Between Worlds, AC: New Leaf, and Mario 3D Land.

There are 30% discounts for various games, too, but those generally cost gold coins as of this moment.
It's fairly easy to tell which kind of currency most rewards use, as the background of the reward will sometimes be either gold or silver colored as an indicator, but clicking on one will bring up a short screen showing the details of how much of which currency each reward requires.

As a side-note, Flip-note Studio 3D is currently available for FREE, so that's something you can nab if you're artistically inclined and don't have it yet.

As for my impression of it...

I'd say it's a solid, if slightly meh, start to the new system.

Some of the rewards will be tempting to people, some won't be.
There will definitely be better rewards down the line as Nintendo listens to what we want to see on the shop, but for now, the rewards page could be far worse.

Now, as to how it could improve...

In my opinion, the system could improve by widening the variety of missions within it to include interaction with Wii U and 3DS games.

Things such as connecting to the internet once per day, or week, and racing in 5 Mario Kart 8 matches for, say, 10 Platinum coins as a reward, or getting the highest amount of points, or a consecutive amount of victories, in Splatoon for 30 P-coins, would be a great incentive for players to get in and get active on many of Nintendo's games.

They could also present this as an opportunity to THIRD PARTIES.
For an easy example, the next upcoming Call of Duty on NX, could reward players with a certain amount of P-coins for every Prestige they manage to get to, if their CoD account is somehow linked to their NNID.
It would be an incentive for Nintendo gamers to buy, and frequently play, third party games that they might otherwise get for a different system.

And finally, they need to roll out a new feature sometime in the near future that will free NNID's and My Nintendo accounts from being tied to the consoles, so that people can switch to a new one if the old one breaks down.
It would be best if they did this before the NX rolls out, so that people have an easier time upgrading to it.

Overall, it's not a perfect system, but I've seen reward programs with far more issues than this seems to have, and far less potential.
As with many things, this will be a "wait and see" thing, but it's off to a promising start that, at the very least, doesn't smack of exploitation or unfairly huge coin costs for most of its offerings.

[DarXyde]

You know, I never did keep up with Nintendo's rewards system following the collapse of Club Nintendo. This was pretty informative. Sounds like there's a lot to be earned on a weekly basis. I also just perused My Nintendo and saw that you can get a pretty good discount on games like Majora's Mask 3D for just 100 G-coins. Definitely sounds like a promising rewards system.

[postitgamer]

One reason why everyone cares about your review of My Nintendo...

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Yeah, we got nothing.
*goes back to playing his crappy Wii U games*

:)