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https://www.nintendo.co.jp/nintendo_account/index.html

Until February 1st, get 100Yen for every 1000Yen spent on the Nintendo eShop. It's:

- 1000 Yen per 24h, doesn't work if you add it over the course of 2 days.
- spending limit of 10 000 Yen per 24h (cannot get more than 1 000 Yen back per day)
- money sent via code, received via email roughly one week after you spent the money
- the money you get via this promotion doesn't count toward your next 100 Yen "coupon"

They also launched an official blog:

https://topics.nintendo.co.jp

 

[Wario64]

Hammered

 

[brainchild]

I thought this was supposed to launch next year?

 

[Dicer]

Sweet deal for those over there...

 

[JoeM86]

Well I've registered my Japanese one

 

[James Scott]

That deal is pretty great. 10% back redeemable every ~10 bucks.
Kind of like the DDP which gave you 10% back redeemable every 50 bucks spent. Really miss that deal

 

[L~A]

I thought this was supposed to launch next year?

That's My Nintendo, the new "Club Nintendo". They never gave any date for the Nintendo Accounts.

 

[Nanashrew]

Noice!

Hope this deal happens in the west!

 

[Hasemo]

Registered through my NNID, glad that I managed to get a nickname I wanted.

 

[JoeM86]

That deal is pretty great. 10% back redeemable every ~10 bucks.

It's Nintendo Network Premium all over again, but less roundabout

 

[random25]

Nice that they are launching this one as early as this year. Hopefully the NA and EU versions go up soon.

 

[kuroneko0509]

linked my japanese nnid... surprised they stealth launch this

 

[Princess Viola]

hope the NA and EU one launches soon

 

[HUELEN10]

translation folks, STAT!

Dish out on the cloud!

 

[Deleted member 126221]

Wait, so it doesn't replace NNID, instead you have to link both like with Club Nintendo?

 

[kuroneko0509]

Registered through my NNID, glad that I managed to get a nickname I wanted.

seems you can change your nickname anytime on your profile page

 

[FrsDvl]

That was a lot sooner than expected, curious to see when it goes up in NA

 

[J@hranimo]

whoa shit Nintendo what ARE you doing??!?!!

We need the juicy deets on how more of this goes down!

 

[perorist]

Just registered mine. It has a purchase history section with all my transactions over the years, hopefully that becomes more than just a list.

 

[Zeyphersan]

Well this is big

 

[hawthorneluke]

Wait, so it doesn't replace NNID, instead you have to link both like with Club Nintendo?

For now at least, with the Wii U and 3DS still in existence. I'm guessing the new nintendo account will be all that's used from here on though (starting with smart phone stuff, which is the only thing they've said so far on the site).

It appears that buying and downloading games (as well as demos) to your Wii U and 3DS from their site works as of now too.

 

[NIGHT-]

OoooOoo! I'm excited

 

[Nanashrew]

Wait, so it doesn't replace NNID, instead you have to link both like with Club Nintendo?

Nah, you just sign in with NNID or Facebook, or Twitter etc. Meant to incorporate many things and is part of the overall account system.

 

[Persona7]

If you make a new NNID after this launches do you automatically have this new account or do you still have to link it?


Edit : oh, I see how it works now.

 

[Garou]

This is just an account-system to combine NNID and social networks with a link to Nintendos digital store. In addition you get special offers like the 100 for 1000 campaign right now or other personalized specials.

On Wii U and 3DS this changes absolutely nothing.

 

[Saro]

Nintendo pls I need this to allow me to move my Splatoon saves and account to an new wiiu so me and my brother can play at the same time.

 

[kuroneko0509]

seems you can safely link & unlink all those accounts (including NNID)... so yeah nintendo account is like a centralized account system
woops somehow it doesn't work? hmm

also tried to register using my non-jp nnid and it didn't work

 

[hawthorneluke]

This is just an account-system to combine NNID and social networks with a link to Nintendos digital store. In addition you get special offers like the 100 for 1000 campaign right now or other personalized specials.

On Wii U and 3DS this changes absolutely nothing.

Allows you to buy/download games/demos to those systems from your pc/phone browser though.

 

[LiK]

so when does the US get it?

 

[JoeM86]

The bonus for money put in was reason enough for me to do it today. Got Pokémon Picross to cover tonight

so when does the US get it?

I'll be surprised if it doesn't stealth launch this week

 

[EndlessFloydian]

Any one else getting an Unavailable page?

The new blog page shows up fine, however.

 

[Josh5890]

Every day it feels like Nintendo is about to pull the strings on a floodgate of information and news.

 

[Garou]

Allows you to buy/download games/demos to those systems from your pc/phone browser though.

That has existed for ages through the NNID-website when you bought a code through Amazon and others.

The only new thing is being able to see your eShop-history from your NNID on the web.

 

[blamite]

Just registered mine. It has a purchase history section with all my transactions over the years, hopefully that becomes more than just a list.

Just Wii U and 3DS, or are Wii purchases included as well? super wishful thinking, but maybe???

 

[EloquentM]

Denzelboom.gif

Nintendo, welcome to 20XX

NoA, wake the fuck up. I get my new 3DS tomorrow

 

[Sandfox]

Well this is cool.

 

[Chanser]

1 step closer to cloud saves.

 

[Persona7]

1 step closer to cloud saves.

I wonder how much they are going to charge for online after the NX comes out.

 

[EloquentM]

1 step closer to cloud saves.

Didn't they already announce that for this service.....?

 

[LiK]

I wonder how much they are going to charge for online after the NX comes out.

hopefully nothing or it's cheap.

 

[UnemployedVillain]

I wonder how much they are going to charge for online after the NX comes out.

Well Pokemon Box is $5 a year sooo, maybe around that? I know Pokemon Company isn't Nintendo, but it's partially them sort of

 

[Chanser]

Didn't they already announce that for this service.....?

Yeah, we're close to it being launched.

 

[hawthorneluke]

That has existed for ages through the NNID-website when you bought a code through Amazon and others.

The only new thing is being able to see your eShop-history from your NNID on the web.

It has? As in, you buy a code from amazon, put in said code on the website via say your phone, and your Wii U/3DS downloads it for you without touching it?

Either way, you can now add funds to your account from the website, unless you could do that too before?

 

[-Horizon-]

Wait what

 

[squeakywheel]

Yay. Got my Dragonball nickname. Thanks OP.

 

[JinjoUnchained]

Eager to see how this works in NA. Hopefully we won't need to file police reports anymore to transfer licenses to new systems.

 

[Gnilres]

So they receive 10% back (100 yen for every 1000 spent). If there's a similar situation in the west, I will be a happy camper.

 

[Sandfox]

Eager to see how this works in NA. Hopefully we won't need to file police reports anymore to transfer licenses to new systems.

I've never had to deal with it, but I don't think you have to do that anymore.

 

[PreyingShark]

Making my account was painless because if you are logged into Miiverse on your PC it will grab your NNID details from that when making a new account. Pretty cool shit. (I was logged in 'cuz I was grabbing a screenshot from YW2)

 

[Gaspard]

I like this better than the Wii U deluxe promotion that ended a year ago.