At its pre-TGS fall presser last week, Nintendo announced that it would be renaming its Wii Point to Nintendo Points later this year in Japan to coincide with the launch of the online DSi Store. Given the new universal name, you’d assume that points on a single card can be transferred between the Wii and DS stores, right? Wrong… read on to find out how this will work.

When you purchase a Nintendo Points card, you’ll only be allowed to activate it on one system. That means, once you use 500 points from a 1000 point card on your Wii, you cannot use the remaining 500 on the DS store.

Nintendo Points Are Either Wii Points Or DS Points, Not Both [Siliconera]

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