Nintendo to Reward EU Wii Owners

[Skeithex]

Nintendo is extending a hand to helpful Europeans with a new "Connection Ambassador" program. CVG reports that the rewards start in October, and encourage Wii users to help get family and friends connected. It sounds altruistic, but Nintendo is incentivizing in a big way. For every Wii owner they help, the "ambassador" and the person helped both get 500 Wii Points. Connecting a total of 10 people grants "Connection Master Gold" status, which allows the ambassador to download all Nintendo first-party NES games on Virtual Console. Connecting 20 people makes one a "Connection Master Platinum," which includes all first-party and third-party NES, SNES, and N64 games on Virtual Console. As if that weren't enough, the points continue to stack for every new connection, so if an ambassador hits the limit of 20 people helped, they'll have 10,000 Wii Points to spend.

Unfortunately, this program seems entirely for Europe, at least for right now, as Nintendo hasn't announced anything resembling it in the U.S. But you never know; with time and fan interest, they might be persuaded to bring it over to us. After all, it worked for Club Nintendo.

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[froggyboy604]

I doubt a program like this will come to Canada since Canada seems to get shafted a lot when it comes to cool programs that the states and other countries like Japan have.