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kenzomatic on 31 March 2008

So if you don't know my wii died and took zelda with it. So I check my warrenty with nintendo and it says it's void. Then I make a thread asking for suggestions. Euphoria14 tells me to try regeristing the wii with nintendo. So I do it a then the warrenty is back.(It adds 3 months) I don't get it what is the point why not just give you the 15 month warrenty. What is gained with the registration?

It reminds me of when you go to a store and they ask you if you have a discount card, and if you don't they grab one and swipe it for you. Why not just give you the discount to begin with? Whats the point of the card?

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NintendoMan on 31 March 2008

You question also has me wondering why car warrentys are 12 months long yet can be extended to 3 years for free. Its crazy but hey there we go.



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BenKenobi88 on 31 March 2008

The point is to send you to their site, so you can see more of what Nintendo has to offer, and register your Wii and your name on the site. Just gets you hooked on Nintendo a little more.



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jlauro on 31 March 2008

Easy, they want you to register, so it's an incentive to have you register.

What would be cool, is if they would extend your console by one month for every new game you register. Maybe someday they will do that.  As long as you are buying games, it's in their best interest to keep your console working...



Kasz216 on 31 March 2008
kenzomatic said:

So if you don't know my wii died and took zelda with it. So I check my warrenty with nintendo and it says it's void. Then I make a thread asking for suggestions. Euphoria14 tells me to try regeristing the wii with nintendo. So I do it a then the warrenty is back.(It adds 3 months) I don't get it what is the point why not just give you the 15 month warrenty. What is gained with the registration?

It reminds me of when you go to a store and they ask you if you have a discount card, and if you don't they grab one and swipe it for you. Why not just give you the discount to begin with? Whats the point of the card?


Discount cards allow them to track consumers buying paterns so they know what consumers buy what. Which consumers that buy Pepsi for example buy toilet paper, also what time a week, what time a day. It also alows them to see how much sales affect your buying patter.

For example say you buy coke 90% of the time, but when pepsi is on sale, you buy pepsi...

It offers a great wealth of consumer marketing research.

All this allows stores to know what sales to advertise in it's circulars... which products to put on an end cap, which items to put near to each other and where displays should go within plain site... etc.