Nintendo discontinuing Gold Points on the Switch eShop, ahead of Switch 2 release
Nintendo has announced it will discontinue its Gold Points scheme across the Switch eShop and official Nintendo website.
Just buy a Steam Deck instead.
I play my Switch docked 99.9% of the time. One thing holding me back with Steam Deck is I keep hearing about complications with trying to play it docked on TV.
Steam Deck seems pretty amazing. Unfortunately, in my case, it's too big to travel with and I doubt my small hands will find much comfort.
Really hope they come out with a Steam Deck Lite. I know you can buy smaller handheld PCs but last I checked they were quite pricey (tbf I haven't checked recently)
Ugh.
Man Nintendo enshitification is in full swing still. One of the worst since Iwata's passing. He is probably spinning in his grave
How dare they get rid of a dark pattern... /s
“My body is ready… to spiiiiiiiiiiiiiiin!” - Iwata-san, channeling inner Reggie Fils-A-Mech.
Man eshop has no refund policy... The gold points were actually kind of a cool part of shopping on there. Well that sucks.
Definitely a bummer to lose a service that just rewarded customers for buying Nintendo games, but I buy so few games anymore that they were rarely adding up to substantial amounts.
Still, from being a loyal Club Nintendo member to having earned a couple of full-priced games in the eShop thanks to Gold Points, I'm hoping they have a new loyalty program up their sleeves even if it doesn't make much sense for them to anymore.
That sucks. It wasn't much money tbh but a few bucks here and there was nice.
That suits me, I just dumped everything I had into renewing my online subscription. Half off.
It feels like this is the only way Nintendo feels comfortable going from a currency system on the Switch to the exact same thing on the Switch 2. Nary the twain shall meet.
They just don’t want to be hounded by anyone about transferring gold from one system to the other.
They just don’t want to be hounded by anyone about transferring gold from one system to the other.
Why do you need to transfer from one system to another? From my understanding (the last Nintendo device I owned was the OG gameboy) the gold points are roughly comparable to steam points. Why would it matter whether you have a Switch 1 or Switch 2?
Do I have to answer this question?
Money.
Gold points are earned by buying select Switch games and hardware. You use it to buy stuff online related to the Switch. Nintendo wants to reset everyone’s progress for the Switch 2. If you want to use gold to buy Switch 2 stuff it has to be gold earned buying Switch 2 stuff.
Greedy? Yes. But then again, it’s a rewards program they don’t even have to offer in the first place.
Nintendo doesn't need a loyalty program to gain fan favor. They already have that... And that's putting it nicely without any labels
Club Nintendo 2 time??
Japanese game companies are allergic to modern, working ideas. I’ve always dislikes how Japanese games look terrible. They don’t even try sometimes and you have ps5 games that look like ps3. They have game series like mega man that they refuse to Move past side scrolling, you play their games and they even leave out basic shit like “pick up item” animations and voice acting. I find Japanese games antiquated and even if they’re fun, they feel like I’m playing a last gen game when I play a Japanese saga or similar dev game.
Pokémon is a good example of a series that refuses to make a current gen game. They all feel like ds games on a switch
Is this a joke? Side-scrolling platformers are fun and not every game needs voice-acting.
Have you played any games outside of those genres? There's plenty of great modern games that are side scrollers. The idea that side scrollers are antiquated is frankly absurd. All that aside, Armoured Core, Yakuza, Street Fighter, Tekken and MH Wilds all look pretty good.
Also considering the power of a Switch, it seems like a no brainer that it would look like a PS3? It's chipset is almost a decade old and operates at a fraction of the power of other platforms.
i heard complaints about the metaphor game looking like a ps3 game. I had several complaints regarding the game but not the graphics. i didn't mind if it meant it keeps the budget low and they're able to maintain a healthy release cadence.