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[Update] Earthbound Back In Stock For Club Nintendo Members
Update: Good news! If you wanted to get Earthbound with your remaining Club Nintendo coins, you can do so once more. The game has been "restocked" and is available for purchase once more.
Original Story:
This is a good time to remind our readers that Club Nintendo is ending. You can no longer earn coins for registering products, and those you already have are going to expire in a few months, but one of the offerings seems to be out of stock, at least temporarily.
Kotaku spotted that Earthbound for Wii U, one of the many digital rewards on offer, is showing up as “sold out.” We checked a random sample of 10 other titles (leaning toward those that might be considered more popular, like Star Fox 64, Kid Icarus Uprising, Super Metroid, and Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D), and all were still available.
We’ve reached out to Nintendo for clarification on whether this is a glitch or if stock has really been depleted. We’ll update should we receive a response.
The way the system works is that when you pick an item, a code is shown immediately (and also delivered via email). If Earthbound has proven to be immensely popular (as we would expect it to be), it could simply be a matter that more codes will be generated to populate the database. The same thing has happened infrequently on Steam during its big sales.
[Source: Club Nintendo via Kotaku]
Our Take
There’s no need to panic quite yet. However, if it does turn out that the digital rewards are limited in number, we expect there will be another run on the system (which will likely bring it to its knees again). Stay tuned for more information.
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