A limited edition bundle will package Animal Crossing: City Folk with the microphone peripheral, WiiSpeak, for $59.99. Purchasers of WiiSpeak will be able to download the WiiSpeak Channel for free. The channel will allow Wii owners to share picture slideshows with one another and discuss them. Ms. Dunaway commented that WiiSpeak's "sound quality is good and it's going to be great by the time we get around to launching it."
Dunaway claimed that gamers who have already registered their purchases on the My Nintendo website will be able to bring over some of the points they've accumulated to the North American Club Nintendo. She also said that the new Pikmin game that Shigeru Miyamoto talked about at E3 had nothing to do with the recently announced re-releases of Pikmin 1 & 2. Dunaway briefly discussed Retro Studios, developers of the Metroid Prime games, confirming that "they are working hard," but she wouldn’t let slip exactly what they are working on.
The only news in this non-unnews piece was that there is a brand spanking new Pikmin coming.No, we knew that. The real news was that we'd get credit towards Club Nintendo from old registrations. :)
Ian, I think you're misinterpreting. The question isn't whether games you've already registered will count, it's whether the codes that are already out there will count. Registering old codes that you've never submitted before is no different than registering those codes years ago.
On top of that, those codes only apply to Nintendo products. In my case, first party soft/hardware only account for a third of the Wii crap I own. Will CAMMIE reward us for supporting 3rd parties as WELL?
So if I buy a brand new copy of Super Mario Galaxy for example that just happens to have been on the shelf longer than the post-Club Nintendo manufactured copy next to it I could get screwed out of my Club Nintendo points? Wow, that f*cking sucks.
That's a Nintendumb way to do it.
Pure speculation, but I'd imagine they'd just not include any Club Nintendo codes in any games that were released prior to the program going live (regardless of the manufacture date). I believe that's what they did they they first introduced the registration codes.
