{"id":71515,"date":"2015-01-20T14:57:59","date_gmt":"2015-01-20T12:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=71515"},"modified":"2015-01-20T14:59:28","modified_gmt":"2015-01-20T12:59:28","slug":"nintendo-club-bites-the-dust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/71515-nintendo-club-bites-the-dust","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo Club bites the dust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nintendo is discontinuing its Club Nintendo rewards program and will replace it in the U.S. with a new customer loyalty program at a later date.<\/p>\n<p>Members of Club Nintendo earned &#8220;coins&#8221; by registering products or completing surveys. They could exchange those coins for downloadable games, posters or character figures.<\/p>\n<p>Japan&#8217;s Nintendo Co. said Tuesday that Club Nintendo members in the U.S. and Canada can earn additional coins through March&#8217;s end and redeem them through June&#8217;s end. New rewards and downloadable games are being added to the program to help members use up their balances.<\/p>\n<p>The ability to make a new Club Nintendo account will end on March 31.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/71371-best-selling-pc-console-games-in-sa.html\">Best-selling PC, console games in SA<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/71421-corsairs-new-ddr4-3400-ram-is-fast-and-shiny.html\">Corsair\u2019s new DDR4-3400 RAM is fast and shiny<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/broadband\/71345-openweb-launches-gaming-focused-uncapped-adsl.html\">OpenWeb launches gaming-focused uncapped ADSL<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nintendo is discontinuing its Club Nintendo rewards program<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":200,"featured_media":61085,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,13195,73],"class_list":["post-71515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-club-nintendo","tag-nintendo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71515","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\/200"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}