I mentioned in our latest Aeropodcast that I had Wii Music on order, thanks to one of those irresistible Amazon.com Lightning Deals. $20. Which is about the price that Wii Music should have debuted at last winter.

When I received my smiling Amazon box, the first thing I did is register Wii Music on my Club Nintendo account (incidentally, I’m already halfway to Gold status, and we’re only a month into Nintendo’s Club calendar year!) Now, Nintendo has their survey thing all jacked up, because they encourage you to register right away… but then immediately ask you what you thought of the game. Hello, I haven’t even booted it up yet! But this isn’t about N’s bizarre polling practices, this is about the email I received today, thanking me for buying Wii Music.

I don’t know if the Thank You email is new, or if Wii Music owners have received this since the game came out. But it still strikes me as unusual. We’ve all been “thanked” for buying a game before, but usually it’s within the realm of a soulless preorder trinket or some other form letter closer to a game’s launch. And I can’t remember ever being thanked by Nintendo, and I have certainly picked up a lot of first-party Nintendo games.

The email provides links to several tip videos and developer tutorials, most seemingly designed to explain how exactly to play Wii Music. At some point along the way – I’ll guess sometime after people stopped buying Wii Music around January 2009 – Nintendo seems to have discovered that Wii Music just was not a sellable intuitive concept. So they needed emails like this one and 60 second infomercials to do a better job of getting people to understand it.

You guys are all dying for me to First Thirty this one, aren’t you.