About Nintendo Wii Points

There is a fuzz since the release of the Nintendo Wii - It is about a currency that is used with Wii and DSi systems called Nintendo Points. These can be used through the Wii shop Cannel and Nintendo DSi shop. End users or so called gamers can purchase these points online through credit card or by purchasing it on gaming retail stores. Some sites or retailers offer Free Nintendo Wii Points in exchange with some registration signup and other collectivized offers.

Nintendo Points were previously known as the Nintendo Wii Points but because the DSi was released some time after the Wii, it was changed to the former. This is because of the service the DSi offered - Available downloads of games. Since then the points were converted to either Wii points or DSi points.

Purchasing Wii Points

• Wii shop Channel using a credit card
• Buying Generic Nintendo Points Cards through Retailers
  

Members of the Club Nintendo can also link their club account to their Wii shop and from there they can purchase points in the card shop of the stars catalog. If the member register their Nintendo products such as consoles like the DSi or the Wii, they are awarded stars that they can exchange for freebies and other goodies including Free Nintendo Points Codes

Here are the the corresponding Virtual Console with their respective Points Values

NES games - 500 Wii Points

Super Nintendo games - 800 Wii Points

Nintendo 64 games - 1000 Wii Points

SEGA MEGA DRIVE games - 800 Wii Points

Turbografx (PC Engine) games - 600 Wii Points

NEOGEO games - 900 Wii Points

SEGA MASTER SYSTEM games - 500 Wii Points

Commodore 64 games - 500 Wii Points

Virtual Console Arcade - Various, from 500 Wii Points

WiiWare - Various, from 500 Wii Points