How Many Games Does It Take To Get The Game & Watch Collection?

By Spencer . December 15, 2008 . 8:28pm

Just like we hypothesized the Game & Watch Collection will be a Club Nintendo gift when the program launches in North America. Currently, the Game & Watch Collection is the most valued item being priced at 800 Gold Coins. That translates to redeeming and completing surveys for16 Wii Games or 27 whole DS games. In real world dollars the Game & Watch Collection costs around $800 if we use $50 for the price of the average Wii game and $30 for the average DS game.

But there are some tricks you can use to maximize your game purchases and earn more coins. If you “indicate intent to buy a game” by marking it on a future purchase list and then buy it you get a bonus 10 coins. Register a game within four weeks of its launch and you get another 10 coins. Filling out a second survey 4-6 weeks after a game launches and you earn another 10 coins.

Follow these steps and you earn 80 coins for a Wii game and 60 coins for a DS game. This way you only need to register 10 Wii Games or 14 DS games to get a coveted copy of Game & Watch Collection. This still costs around $420 – $500 depending if you do this with just DS or Wii games. You might want to register those Wii Shop Channel games too since you get ten coins for each one.

Images courtesy of Nintendo.

TAGS: Club Nintendo, Game & Watch Collection, Highlight, Nintendo, Nintendo DS

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QBasic

I take it you can't register old stuff like the Cube or GBA?

Mr Mee

I'm kind of annoyed because I have over 50 games already registered with My Nintendo, both old titles and new, and none of them carried over to my Club Nintendo account. That's kind of unfair if you ask me. Nintendo should gives the points that they are worth, the elite status, or something to compensate for out loyalty and devotion to their systems and games.

Spencer

@QBasic - You might be able to register them, but you won't get coins.

@Mr. Mee - Wow that's a downer :( But I thought Nintendo will retroactively give you some coins for already registered games? Not quite sure, but it's worth a shot :)

jeffx

The real question is whether or not these Club Nintendo items will be time or quantity limited. I'd love to have the G&W collection but I'd assume many others also do.

Also I love how the French translation of the Club Nintendo website is better than the actual English text in many instances. "Register you products!" reads like the Zero Wing intro. "My Nintendo members can migrate your account to Club Nintendo" oh sweet, so members can migrate MY account? In both instances, the French translation is correct.

jeffx

I'll confirm that nothing transfers over.

Strike Man

You still need to take the surveys to get the coins, simply registering the titles or transferring them to Club Nintendo will not net you any gil. Er, coin.

Some of the features such as the "intend to purchase" section are either not online yet, or are simply empty at this time.

However, I was pleasantly surprised to see that Nintendo also built shipping into the price of the items in the Club Nintendo Rewards "store". -800 points later, and Game & Watch is ordered. :)

Neo Yor

hmmm, as I thought is only for north america =/ , and that sucks.
(I'm from Chile btw)

But if I know someone who lives in USA, could I use his address information??

Code

Yeah really it's a raw deal stuff doesn't carry over from original Nintendo account -- me and my friend are both big nintendo fans easily would have enough for G&W Collection x_x; But I REGISTERED all my stuff, and he didn't >_>' and now he's registered all and everything now and I'm left with 130 coins for registered two games I held off on registering when I heard Club Nintendo was coming T_T. I can't help but feel ripped off a little.

rdaneel72

Migrating My Nintendo account to Club Nintendo hasn't worked for me yet, so I can't confirm this, but I've heard that you need to FILL OUT SURVEYS for PREVIOUSLY REGISTERED GAMES to get the coins. So, if you registered Twilight Princess under MY Nintendo, you should be able to take the survey for it under CLUB Nintendo, and then get the coins.

Strike Man above seems to have confirmed this. Can we get more details?

Code

rdaneel72 -- Sadly there has yet to be an area on the site where you see a list of formally registered games, and then do surveys on Club Nintendo. The closest thing I've seen is under the account settings, you can go on the bottom left and see "products registered" where it lists everything from my previous account. But there's no way to do surveys or anything with them >_>

Code

Okay as of like about 20 minutes ago, I can do surveys from the front page hurray! >w<!

jeffx

BTW your first link points to a local file.

QBasic

Wow...I just realized. This is ONLY for Nintendo developed games.

... :< Sorry...but it's made of a little too much fail for me to care.

Mr. Mee

For some reason, I can't log on to Club Nintendo at as it says my password is invalid. To make it worse, it won't let me retrieve my password even though I know I entered it correctly :(

Strike Man

The site is under some very heavy traffic at the moment, so you'll get errors of that sort, along with errors saying the login has failed.

I honestly don't know what Nintendo is doing to address that issue, if anything, but I'd suggest either trying at a later hour, or waiting a few days/weeks until the rush has quieted down.

daizyujin

This is rediculous. They never should have launched the site unless
they were sure they were ready for the rush. Wait, never mind, I realized as I wrote that first sentence this is a company that can't ever make sure that something works right/there is enough before going opening the doors.

daizyujin

Hum it seems now that they are actually acknowledging this problem on the sign-in screen.

"Due to high traffic volumes, the sign in function may not be working properly. If you are sure your username and password are correct, please keep trying."

Think I will just wait a few days before I bother again.

TheRootBeerKing

yay for $800 dollar game! I hope we get the super famicom wii controller, in the north american club nintendo, soon...

Joanna

For some odd reason, every time I try to migrate my account the e-mail I type in gets an error message saying "invalid e-mail format" or something similar. But I used that e-mail address in MyNintendo account >_______<

anyone else having this problem or is it just me?