Monster Hunter 3: Ultimate, New Super Mario Bros. U, Nintendo Land, Pikmin 3, The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD & The Wonderful 101, Wii U + £33 GAME store credit – £75
Monster Hunter 3: Ultimate, New Super Mario Bros. U, Nintendo Land, Pikmin 3, The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD & The Wonderful 101, Wii U + £33 GAME store credit – £75
Bit of a convoluted one this, so bear with me.
As part of the Mario Kart 8 free game promotion, when you buy Mario Kart 8 for the Wii U, you get a free download from a selection of games.
This promotion is not limited to once per console, only once per Club Nintendo account. The process is the following:
1. Register the serial code bundled with Mario Kart 8 on your Club Nintendo account.
2. Select which of the free games you’d like a download for.
3. Receive an eShop code for your chosen game. This code is not tied to any specific account.
4. Enter the code you received onto the eShop to get your free game.
You can only activate any given game once on your Club Nintendo account, but since it is relatively trivial to create a dummy Club Nintendo account, it’s simple enough to participate in this promotion multiple times.
GAME are currently selling Mario Kart 8 for £40 in store. GAME will currently (via CEX pricematch) give you £33 store credit for a trade in of Mario Kart 8.
If you buy a new copy of Mario Kart 8 from GAME, take the Club Nintendo serial out, then trade it back in, you will have spent £40, and received £33 store credit, and the means to get one game. By simply creating a dummy Club Nintendo account to register each copy of Mario Kart 8 on, you’ll be able to get multiple free eShop codes.
Your initial outlay is £40 to get an initial copy of Mario Kart, and then an additional £7 for each subsequent copy. You’ll also end up with £33 GAME credit to spend however you wish at the end, or you could decide to keep hold of the final copy of Mario Kart 8 instead.
There are more games than just these six included in the promotion, I just figured these are the best ones.
the way i was reading that was that i would need up with a wiiU as well haha
Mario Kart 8 is currently £30 on Zavvi. Providing the resale price holds up you could potentially make a profit.
Yep, although the issue there is that zavvi are currently out of stock, and who knows when they’ll get it to you.
I like to imagine it took a blackboard covered in mad scribbles and maybe a chemistry set with liquids of various colours all bubbling furiously to discover this devious loophole. That is some truly top-notch loopholery.
I rushed to my local Game this morning, MK8 in hand…Unfortunately the game is £45 in store, not £40. Still a good little scam, but it lost a little of its thrifty sheen 🙁
Yeah, it looks like they increased the price. It’s still £39 on their website, but that does make it a bit more hassle to do.