I don't love the payment scheme, or the (seemingly) somewhat random nature of what you can win, or the fact that some people will fail to unlock the badges they want due to sucking at the crane game.


And yet I still think this is a pretty awesome idea.

Something tells me Nintendo has already thought of that. 


I am sure they can give you retries…like shoot agains in pinball if you miss all your tries.  But also, it appears to be very forgiving.

Just for the record - there is a practice crane that you can do once a day. They're like wooden blocks. On the back of some of them are a thing that gives you a prize. I'm not sure if the prize is the same every time, but today I got three free tries (in top of the five initial ones). We'll be discussing this on the Famicast for sure, so be ready for that!

Nintendo is very determined to never have an unprofitable year again.

As usual, looking forward to it.

Paying real money on a REAL crane game is generally a waste of money, but at least you get some tat that can keep for a while before losing it or throwing it out a year later.


But this......wow. Real money to play a short mini-game for the possibility of virtually decorating the background of your home menu.


That's some horse armour type crap right there!

It's called price discrimination. There are enough people willing to give Nintendo money for no good reason that it's in Nintendo's best interest to facilitate them doing that.

I wish there was some way to convert my Wii Shop and DSi Shop credit over to this...

Why won't there be one for US  :'(  :( WHY DO U DO DIS

You should be thanking your god that it ISN'T on the US/EU eShop!

Admission of addiction?


I'd like to see this in North America too... but the longer it remains unavailable the less I care. Funny how many Nintendo products that applies to recently.