{"id":13192,"date":"2011-07-28T12:17:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-28T10:17:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"nintendo-announces-free-games-deal-for-existing-3ds-owners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/13192-nintendo-announces-free-games-deal-for-existing-3ds-owners","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo announces free games deal for existing 3DS owners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&rsquo;re feeling a bit burned for paying loads of cash for your 3DS just ahead of its <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/13184-Nintendo-3DS-getting-global-price-cut-next-month.html\" target=\"_self\">30% price cut<\/a>, here&rsquo;s some news to ease that pain &ndash; Nintendo is making nice with free games for you. Hugs and kisses implied.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We plan to offer an exclusive Nintendo 3DS Ambassador Programme to consumers who have purchased the Nintendo 3DS at the original launch price,&rdquo; a spokesperson for the company tells <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerandvideogames.com\/313365\/free-games-coming-to-existing-3ds-owners\/\" target=\"_blank\">CVG.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The programme will enable these Nintendo 3DS owners to download 10 NES games and 10 Game Boy and Game Boy Advance games for free.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To be registered for this programme, the Nintendo 3DS owners simply need to connect to the Nintendo eShop before the 12th of August. The free software will then be made available at a later stage.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;More details on the programme will be announced on the Nintendo of Europe website shortly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The price cut follows last night&rsquo;s announcement that 3DS sales have been pretty dismal, coming in at just 700 000-odd since launch, in dramatic comparison with the DS which sold about a hundred zillion in the same time period.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/16070-Nintendo-announces-free-3DS-games?p=483966#post483966\" target=\"_self\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><strong>Discuss Nintendo&#8217;s free 3DS game deal<\/strong><\/span> <\/a>in the forums<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keeping everybody happy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}