[quote name='Nirron']They need to use your pictures instead of the crap one they have on the site
I wasn't really knocking the item as much as its price. I've had a moment or two at the airport or waiting on a train where I've wanted to have access to a few DS games, but it's just a LOT of points for an item like that. The Zelda posters are huge and there are three of them for 350 coins. The multiple stylii (styluses? who knows) do seem neat though. So yeah, don't take my little rant as a slight to the case, but rather the price that Nintendo associates with them. I do feel you on the different colors for the stylus though. I've always stuck with the traditional and boring black DS, so I'll occasionally buy a different color stylus to see what's different. I just tend to buy the cheap 3-packs most of the time, since I really can't pass up 3 for $6-7.
It's just one of those things that seem counterintuitive to my logic, considering if you filled that case with 9 Nintendo-published games, the amount of coins you get for registering those 9 games wouldn't be enough to cover HALF of what that case/stylus holder costs. I suppose I should be thankful that we at least get physical items though. I glanced at what Europe had been getting in the past...yikes.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, I can completely agree on the cost in coins of the case (and Club Nintendo items in general. I consider myself a moderately-high purchaser of Nintendo-published/developed games and I still don't know if I'm going to make 2010 Platinum status without resorting to buying codes on ebay). To be honest, I got mine from ebay and would recommend that other people do the same, but it doesn't come up for sale very often and it was better in person than I thought it would be, so I still recommend it for someone who has the coins, is willing to spend them, and doesn't see anything that immediately calls to them.
A lot of Club Nintendo stuff kind of sacrifices functionality for decorative quality. I'm also kind of interested on that really nice-looking DS rack with the Mario Hat-shaped ends, but it only looks like it holds six DS games! I would have cashed in coins for that a long time ago if it was just a pair of bookends, but at present that could hold like 7% of my DS games :lol:
Again, like with the stylus case it would work nicely next to a bed, chair, etc. where you can keep a select few DS games you're currently playing right next to you, but it doesn't suit my purposes. If the cart/stylus cases are the same for other people in that they're just not convenient enough that's just fine, but the picture on the site is indeed crappy and I want people to know that it's at least somewhat better than you'd be lead to believe
