Little Girl Writes a Letter to Nintendo and Gets a Free DS

• Swordslayer wrote on 2010-05-25 01:34
  She's so lucky that she was the 1/100000000000000000000000 letter that was actually read by nintendo =|
• Moppy wrote on 2010-05-25 01:36
  Dude, grade 6?
  
  I wrote like that in grade 2.
  
  /is just jealous
• RicochetOrange wrote on 2010-05-25 01:42
  Pathetic. Second grade level.
  
  
  
  
  So should I write a massive crossover Nintendo fanfiction and request a free 3DS and a copy of Pokemon Black when they come out?
• Pocoyo wrote on 2010-05-25 01:52
  Finnaly being an Australian has benefits!
• BobYoMeowMeow wrote on 2010-05-25 01:58
  WAIT A MINUTE GUYS
  at the end it says
  "I really hope you and your classmates enjoy playing the DS"
  
  She has to share
• Moppy wrote on 2010-05-25 02:01

  Quote from BobYoMeowMeow;43396:

  WAIT A MINUTE GUYS
  at the end it says
  "I really hope you and your classmates enjoy playing the DS"
  
  She has to share

  
  
  Like hell she will.
• Cucurbita wrote on 2010-05-25 02:05
  Dear Nexon.
  
  Insert note*
  I'd like NX cash.
  
  Nexon: Thank you for your concern. Your ticket has been forwarded to the appropriate department for review.
• Time wrote on 2010-05-25 02:17

  Quote from BobYoMeowMeow;43396:

  WAIT A MINUTE GUYS
  at the end it says
  "I really hope you and your classmates enjoy playing the DS"
  
  She has to share

  
  I will pose as a sixth grader, find the school, avoid getting arrested by the police for stalking, and play that D.S:glasses:
• Mentosftw wrote on 2010-05-25 03:22
  I bet that DS has a special feature that will detect non sharing behavior from the player and self destructs when neccessary.
• BobYoMeowMeow wrote on 2010-05-25 04:10
  Okay here's Nintendo's response to everyone else who tries
  

  NINTENDO Australia fears it could be swamped by requests for freebies after a cute story of goodwill went viral on the internet.
  
  11-year-old Victorian schoolgirl Helen last month wrote to the company as part of her Year 6 class project.
  
  "The reason I'm writting (sic) to your company is because at school we are learning how to write letters to companies," Helen wrote.
  
  "We have 25 students in our class and we have 25 companies. I chose your company because I'm a big fan of yours."
  
  In fact Helen was such a big fan of Nintendo she couldn't resist asking for a DS gaming console after her parents "refused" to buy her one.
  
  "I also have a request to make. My request is quite big. I would like a DS please for those many reasons," Helen wrote.
  
  Nintendo obliged and sent a new DS to Helen's school along with a letter of reply to the young girl.
  
  "Thank you for your letter — we were very impressed. I really hope you and your classmates enjoy playing the DS," wrote a Nintendo staff member.
  
  Now the exchange — including Helen's letter and Nintendo's reply — has gone viral on the internet.
  
  Just two days after being posted online, the exchange has been viewed more than 330,000 times on image-sharing site imgur.
  
  It has also attracted thousands of votes on link-sharing websites like Reddit and Digg.
  
  But for every reader that responded with a "daaaaw", there's another who has joked about trying it out for themselves.
  
  "So I can just send any company a letter and they will give me a product?" asked one reader on Digg.
  
  "I'm going to send a letter to Steve for a certain pad," said another.
  
  However if you're thinking about writing to Nintendo under the pretence of a school project, be warned — they verify all requests.
  
  "Nintendo always calls the school, hospital, retirement home, or whatever it may be to ensure the letter is legitimate," said Nintendo Australia's Heather Murphy.
  
  "In this particular case, Nintendo called the school and spoke to the school principal."
  
  After talking to the principal to make sure the gaming console would be well used, Nintendo sent a DS and a "game suitable for children to play" to the school.
  
  Ms Murphy said it wasn't common practice to give away free consoles — or even reply — to everyone who wrote to the company. She said it received "hundreds" of letters per day.
  
  "Nintendo does not routinely give away products in response to letters. From time to time, we may donate product to schools, hospitals or retirement villages," she said.
  
  "We receive a high number of letters on a daily basis, and unfortunately we are not able to respond to every one.
  
  "So therefore we hope we do not receive an influx as we simply would not be able to respond."
  
  However Ms Murphy said Nintendo would like to thank everyone who had written to the company already.
  
  "Especially those letters that tell Nintendo about their experiences with our products and how and why they enjoy them so much," she said.

  
  
  Nintendo sends DS to school after girl's letter | News.com.au
  
  see?
  The DS was not for the girl
  it was for school use
  
  Nintendo's clever advertising
• Mentosftw wrote on 2010-05-25 04:14
  I bet it was brain age or something then.
• Shironi wrote on 2010-05-25 04:16
  Wooooooow.
  
  Smart advertising. 6th grade? What's that in NZ, second form?
  
  Very smart advertising. But also stupid, they didn't think of the consequences.
  
  
  
  
  Then again, maybe it really was an act of goodwill.
• Yogurticecream wrote on 2010-05-25 04:29
  lol at cynicism.
  
  I strongly believe that it's just an act of goodwill. It's extremely good publicity for Nintendo.
  
  Also, DS probably belongs to the school, not him/her.
• Taycat wrote on 2010-05-25 04:43
  She has better penmanship than I.
  
  Except, I can read cursive letters since my 3rd grade teacher boned it into me....
• Tibarn wrote on 2010-05-25 04:48
  Good publicity for Nintendo.
  
  Also, those of you who are essentially insulting a 6th grade girl for her penmanship, just...stop.