How to Get Nintendo Wii Points for Free
Nintendo Points are a type of currency you can use for buying Nintendo products online or in retail stores. In the US you can purchase Wii Points for $10 per thousand, and you can buy them online with a credit card, or you can buy a Nintendo Points Card at a retail store. When buying them, you must stipulate whether you want them for Wii products or for DSi products, because you can only use them for one system or the other, not both. Probably the most popular use for Points is for buying and downloading Nintendo Wii games.
How to get Wii Points free
You can also get up to 2000 free Nintendo Points on any of several sites, which would cost you $20 for each 2000. These are legitimate Points that the sites have purchased from Nintendo in order to draw people to their sites. The catch is that you have to let these sites send you a lot of ads from their sponsors. We advise you to sign up for a junk email address beforehand, which you can do for free from Yahoo, Gmail, or Hotmail. And then you can give that junk email address to the free sites so that you don’t overload your real email address with ads.
Once you agree to let one of these sites send the ads, they’ll probably direct you to their prize section, where you can choose from any of several free prizes, including Wii Points. On some sites they might not direct you, so you might have to find the prizes yourself; look for “Available Offers” (or something similar) and click “Free Offers”. Then you might have to fill out a few steps before you can claim your prize. The sites are all different, of course, and they might have changed since we’ve been there.
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If you choose the Nintendo Points as your prize, they’ll give you the free Wii Points codes for them, and you can use them online at the Nintendo Wii Shop Channel to download Wii games or to buy other things you might find there. Some of the older Nintendo games cost as little as 500-1000 Points, so you might be able to get four free games with your 2000 Points. And there are at least four of these sites that you can get Points from, so theoretically you could get 16 of the older games for free. Here are the sites:
www.prizerebel.com
www.rewards1.com
www.gaminglagoon.com
www.ezyrewards.com
We’ve also heard of Wii Points hacks and Wii Points generators where you can get free Wii Points, but these probably aren’t legit. Rumor has it that you might get a virus or spyware in the process, so we haven’t checked into these sites.
Wii Points are used to buy products on the Wii Shop Channel, which is the online store where you can buy utilities and games. For utilities, you can get software that makes it easier to browse the internet or to store photos. Most of this software is free or inexpensive. You use your console to get online and then download Wii games or utilities from the Wii shop channel directly to your console.
The Wii Shop Channel is divided into three sections:
• Virtual Console. For older, pre-Wii games. Here is where you download Wii games.
• WiiWare. For new Wii games designed specifically for the Wii console
• Wii Channels. For things like Wii’s Opera web browser.
The only Wii Channel that isn’t free is the Internet Channel, a version of the Opera web browser. The Wii shop channel can be accessed when your console is connected to the internet.
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Some Wii and WiiWare games feature downloadable content which you can buy with Wii Points. Some of these games include Mega Man 9 and LONPOS on WiiWare, and Rock Band 2 and Guitar Hero World Tour on Wii. These games use an in-game interface for buying content, but you have to have already bought enough points beforehand through the Wii Shop Channel.