Talk:Nintendo Points

message: Flamecondor 09:02, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It's not Wii Points. It's Star Points, a Nintendo of Europe reward scheme. Every bit of firstparty software and each bit of hardware comes with a scratch-off card which reveals a code, which can be registered on the Nintendo of Europe website. This gets you some wallpapers or screensavers or something for download, and adds some Stars to your total. The stars can currently be redeemed for more downloadable screensavers or wallpapers or whatever, and occasionally for something like an actual game or a poster. There are plans afoot to let you exchange Stars Points for Wii Points.Sockatume 20:08, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Question and source?

message: I have redone a bit of the formatting, but may somebody please give links and update all information to make sure it's up to date.→ Nintendonien 00:02, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Sources and Updating

message: Why do we need this? I don't want to just go and delete it, but isn't this row a little against the attempted globalization of Wikipedia?«»bdI'm cool!I'm cocky! I'm bad! 21:49, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Although I take your point, it does allow for comparisons between regions. I say leave it... DAllardyce 16:53, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I've added a euro-equivalent row to the table. I think it's reasonable to show comparative pricing in common currency (as an example, BBC News normally converts currency amounts to USD and EUR. Also goes to show how much extra we pay in the UK :( DAllardyce 16:33, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm lazy so can somebody add the JPY equivalent? Thanks. :)--Revth 05:37, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Added GDP equivalent, seeing as how it's the worlds most valuable currency. :) 88.111.57.96 00:28, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: USD Equivalent

message: Are you sure the Wii Point Cards aren't region specific?
Because we live in Canada and for X-mas got our American Nephew a Wii point card, and that worked for him fine...
--Phred Levi 19:46, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Last time I checked, Mexico is also in North America. Mexican Wii Points are not compatible with US Wii Points. So your original post is wrong, isn't it? Yeah. Thanks for playing. --76.217.82.113 (talk) 06:29, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Looks like I might have been wrong about the "North America" part, but I'm still right about the part where American Points Card will work on a Canadian Wii, or vise versa. If you don't believe me, go to either the US or Canada, find a Wii Points Card, and look in the back. It should say "For sale and use only in USA and Canada." Munchlax (talk) 23:07, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Country Specific? 

message: Where can you buy the Wii Points Cards and how much do they cost? Ilikevideogames 16:36, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: That info is in the article.  Geoff B 16:48, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cards

message: I think there should be a section in the article regarding taxes (wheather you need to pay taxes or not when purchasing Wii Points online ). I heared that you need to pay a small amount of taxe depening on your region. 74.111.14.37 03:07, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, that's out of the ordinary. --Chris Griswold  (☎☓) 09:05, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  The "Microsoft Points" page has an article about taxes. So I think that a tax section in the Wii Points page isn't a bad idea at all. 74.111.14.37 00:07, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

text: It does seem notable, otherwise saying it's $10 for 1000 might be lying somewhat. I live in Nova Scotia, Canada and was charged 14% HST making 1000 points cost $11.40 (American) --Phred Levi 17:54, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

text: I live in New Jersey, at the beginning of the service I didn't have to pay tax on point purchasing through the console. Today I purchased 1000 to buy F-Zero and it added the 7% tax to the bill. Does anyone know what happened? 71.255.14.245 03:26, 15 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: This point is important because it may make the price comparisons in the table somewhat unfair if some of them include the local equivilent of sales tax (e.g. VAT in the EU) and others don't. Plugwash 22:52, 5 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Taxes really don't need to be in the article. Especially when it changes so much from place to place. In California, or at least for me, I prefer to buy my points through the Shop Channel since there is no tax. $20 is $20. LN3000 05:32, 6 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Would it suffice to have a single sentence that local/state sales tax may be charged depending on your region? — KieferSkunk (talk) — 18:48, 6 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: For what it's worth, when buying Wii points in Canada, we get charged GST/PST/HST in US dollars.  According to Revenue Canada, this is the way it should be across the board when buying in the US and Shipping to Canada.  Even though it's an 'Intangible Electronic Good.'  Nintendo is obligated to charge GST/PST and remit that to the Govt.  However, where it gets shady is that they only need to remit the amount in CAD.  Not the USD that they are charging us if we buy the points online.  This is according to the GST adjudicator I spoke with.  800-O-CANADA is the number and then you go through the bouncy bounce of getting to Revenue Canada and then a GST adjudicator.  Cheers.  —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 206.130.173.38 (talk) 17:34, August 22, 2007 (UTC) 
Let me explain about US sales tax, since apparently nobody here understands it. The consumer does not pay sales tax. The seller does. That's why "sales tax" isn't just a clever name. There's a reason it's not called "purchase tax". Business in the US are not required by any law to add anything to their listed prices in deference to sales tax. If they wanted to charge you exactly $50 for a dongle instead of $49.99 + $2.45 (4.9% national average), they could do that. The business pays sales tax totally irrespective of what they charge you. Business do not pay sales tax per purchase. They pay it as a percentage of total sales. When they list their prices as "pre-tax prices" they are lying to you, deceptively making their prices less than they actually are. They suggest to you that you have to pay tax on your purchases, when in fact you don't. They are saying, in essence, "please pay us extra money because we pay tax on this transaction and you don't." In addition to that, this article is about Wii Points, not the taxation of Wii Points. If other countries require consumers to pay taxes on things they purchase, that sucks for them, but it's irrelevant to this article. That has nothing directly to do with Wii Points or any other particular commodity. It would apply to every commodity in that region, wouldn't it? --76.217.82.113 (talk) 06:39, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Taxes 

message: After you add Wii Points, the Wii Points Card expires and can no longer be redeemed. --PJ Pete
:Thanks for the update. I wasn't aware that debit cards couldn't be cashed in more than once before you said something. I am shocked and appalled. Hint for the slow: If they could be used more than once their price per point would be 0 and you'd be paying for the medium only. Around here we call that "free". --76.217.82.113 (talk) 06:42, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Adding Points

message: —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Superjustinbros. (talk • contribs).
:Please explain what edit you would like make. — Malcolm (talk) 01:31, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm going to pull the template till they know what they want edited. The edit protected cat already has a backlog. -- Ned Scott 06:03, 29 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Edit request

message: Microsoft Points are almost the same as Wii Points, and are relevant to the article. It seems that wanting to take out the link to "Microsoft Points" was only motivated by fanboyism and not by real "non-notability." They're both types of points, and are both used to pay for things online with consoles. How much more related do they have to be? I'm sorry, but the link should just be added and this edit war ended promptly.--ZXCVBNM 22:31, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Microsoft points #2 

message: The table list only the defualt price, as thus we should not note every price variant or the table will grow vastly to large, could some please remove it, becuase as of now the page is locked from me to edit.→041744 00:59, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree. When the article is unprotected, someone can take care of that. LN3000 04:45, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  I disagree we could put a limited ammount of prices to show an overview of currency. Uchiha23 05:52, 11 August 2007 (UTC)

text: Note, talking about the "Virtual Console Price" list, not the "Wii Point Prices," unless I'm interpreting this wrong. LN3000 18:25, 12 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, I am talking about the "Virtual Console Price" list, not the "Wii Point Prices" just to clarify.→041744 12:22, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

text: Protection has been reduced. Cheers. --MZMcBride 02:39, 14 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank You!, ah, finally I can edit this page again.→041744 05:57, 14 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Remove notes on price table

message: I think in the See Also section we should put Wii, and Virtual Console. Cause it's useful to understand the console it self and what the points are used on.. Uchiha23 05:51, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Putting those links in the See Also is not necessary, as they are already linked, in context, in the body of the article already. LN3000 18:20, 12 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  "See Also" Requested Edit 

message: In the Pricing -> Channels section, both the "Internet Channel" and the "Everybody Votes Channel" was mentioned. Do ya think that the Metroid Prime 3 Preview should be mentioned, even though it doesn't really add much to Wii Points? 99.245.71.154 02:01, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't actually think that any of the specific "channels" should be mentioned in this article.  We already have an article where listing the various channels that have been released would be more appropriate (namely, Wii Menu and/or Wii Shop). — KieferSkunk (talk) — 06:26, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Should the "Metroid Prime 3 Preview" Channel be mentioned? 

message: I think WiiWare is being released earlier than 2008 meaning this year. I heard it from thewiire.com Could someone check this again? 70.107.81.179 23:02, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The "official" launch is in 2008, but one of the Nintendo executives stated that if games are ready, the service could potentially launch in late 2007. Zomic_13 15:40, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  WiiWare 

message: I think it should be mentioned that there is a limit as to how many points can be credited to a single Wii system at any given time. I'm not sure what that limit is, so I can't add this information, myself, but I'm sure somebody else out there knows the limit. If you could, please add this information to the article. It's pretty relevant and could help those researching Wii points decide on when to add points to their Wii system, so as not to overlap too many points. -D14BL0 19:42, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: If you don't know what the limit is, how do you know there is a limit? Zomic_13 15:39, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The Wii says it after you redeem points.→041744 18:08, 6 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The limit is 20,000 points. Keyboard mouse (talk) 01:57, 30 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Point Limit Per Wii 

message: I am proposing a merge discussion on several Wii articles - the discussion to be, however, what to merge and where. If anyone would like to join in, please go to Talk:Wii. - A Link to the Past (talk) 17:52, 28 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge discussion 

message: I kinda messed up the page and don't know how to fix it. I was trying to remove the citation needed thing about the credit card. Claycrow 15:16, 15 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Opps

message: This part of the introduction strikes me as a bit weasel wordy. A reader can see for themselves the amount of time between the announcement of Stars-for-Points and the eventual implementation of the scheme, so the addition of this phrase seems to be nothing but an implicit criticism of that delay, which is not particularly encyclopaedic. I suggest removing the phrase. Kelvingreen (talk) 18:13, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  "almost a year after the intial announcement" 

message: I don't think I'll be able to work on it myself, but the article should probably be generalized and moved in light of the Nintendo's announcement of the DSi Shop. Dancter (talk) 16:58, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Nintendo Points

message: I Googled the bad link. It is http://www.mcvuk.com/news/31919/DSi-digital-content-shop-announced, not http://www.mcvuk.com/news/31919/DS-digital-content-shop-announced. One missing I.
99.27.132.205 (talk) 01:59, 25 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  The broken reference link 

message: Is there an area in the article that specifies a particular length (or lengths) of the redeeming codes? Mechamind90 (talk) 02:31, 15 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Code length? 

message: We need a chart comparing the relative cost of points for different regions, similar to this chart for Microsoft points. Frostnova (talk) 01:02, 2 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Price of points relative to USD?