Today Is Your Final Day For Club Nintendo Rewards
“Club Nintendo’s still a thing?” you might say. For a few more hours, it is. On July 1, 2015 at approximately midnight Pacific time, Nintendo will end the long-running and controversial (in the sense that most of the American prizes were crap) consumer rewards program forever. That means if there are coins in your account that you still haven’t spent, and something in the lineup can be bought with them, now is your last chance before those coins disappear and the items with them. If you live on the East Coast you have until 3 AM due to time zone differences.
The last day to earn coins was March 31; the last day to claim free gifts for reaching milestones (i.e, the Gold and Silver rewards, which were free game downloads) was April 30. June 30 marks the last day to do anything else.
Nintendo has plans to replace Club Nintendo with a new, more modern rewards program, but it has yet to reveal what kind of program it is. There was no word or hint of such a program during E3, but it has been confirmed to be coming. Presumably it’s waiting for one of those monthly digital update videos to reveal itself in.
All physical rewards are long gone, but over 100 games are still available, except for EarthBound which weirdly “sold out” of digital copies. Now the program belongs to history. Club Nintendo, like Greece, will be shut down for good tonight.