NSO Game Vouchers won't work for Switch 2 games, Nintendo discontinuing Gold Points March 25th

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Preparing for the Switch 2 launch as only Nintendo can.

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Nintendo rarely gives anything away for free. Meanwhile Microsoft allowed $1 gamepass exploits for years.

Not unexpected new system new currency.
 
I imagine Switch 2 games will be $70. There might be a new set of vouchers.
Think $70 is a virtual certainty, at least for the games they know they can get away with( 3D Mario, Mario Kart, Zelda, Animal Crossing). Can't wait for the 30% off sales and the game is still $50+. And yeah, they're probably bringing back the vouchers at 2/$120. Nintendo being Nintendo, they're not going to grandfather your existing vouchers and allow you to cash in on $70 titles with the vouchers you purchased at the lower rate.
 
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Yes, because Nintendo doesn't make enough money so they need to make more. 🤦‍♂️

This is all just Switch 2 prep. They'll have their own things for the next-gen. But make no mistake they want to be more profitable than ever. Games and hardware are getting more and more expensive to make.
 
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I still have a voucher waiting for MP4. Losing the gold points is bullshit. I only bought the vouchers because it was during an offer for an additional £20 worth of gold points or something.

So many indie games have been purchased for "free" or under £5 due to the points.
 
Voucher situation makes sense, but disappointing to hear about the coins unless they have a better system to replace it which they definitely won't.

Not optimistic about what will happen with the cost of NSO.
 
I wouldn't have expected the voucher to work on Switch 2 honestly. It was the digital version of their greatest hits line they always do late in the system's life. It was only available on Switch the last 2 years I think.

As for the gold points, they suck. I imagine they're probably trying a new system for rewards.
 
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I wouldn't have expected the voucher to work on Switch 2 honestly. It was the digital version of their greatest hits line they always do late in the system's life. It was only available on Switch the last 2 years I think.

As for the gold points, they suck. I imagine they're probably trying a new system for rewards.
wtf gold did not suck i picked up a lot of games with gold.
 
$0.60 for a $60 game isn't it? I mean, it's not like I truly hate a discount but I think the whole thing could be redesigned into a far better rewards system.
1% of purchase price for Physical, but 5% for digital.

So a $60 physical game is $0.60 but a $60 digital game is $3.
 
I'm telling you they are 100% charging to carry your digital purchases to switch 2. And if they do I'm done with Nintendo.
I'm almost in the same boat. But who am I kidding? I'll definitely buy the damn console and buy the new Mario and the new Zelda for sure.

But these anti-consumer decisions will make me use the Switch 2 less than I would otherwise.

I use both of these a lot. And in lieu of good first-party deals, gold coins + vouchers made the pill swallowable of buying the damn first party games. Let's see what's the whole plan, but doesn't seem great so far.
 
Are the gold coins gonna get cancelled or just stop? do I need to use them before mar 24?

I guess I'll use my voucher to get MP4.
 
I hope they introduce Switch 2 Vouchers which would probably be price adjusted for the increased price in software (assuming the new price will be $120). The Gold Coin program being discontinued sucks. Hopefully it gets replaced with something as well.
 
I'm almost in the same boat. But who am I kidding? I'll definitely buy the damn console and buy the new Mario and the new Zelda for sure.
I will too, but my patience and willingness to wait for the right buy-in point is growing. I've considered the last 5 years of my gaming habits and come to realize that I'm like 80% PC, and 20% consoles split between PS5 and Switch( sold my Series X). I'm sitting on a stack of Switch games I haven't been all that inspired to play moreso than tackling my Steam library. To be frank all the leaks, excessive forum chatter and Nintendo's own vagueness about their next console has had the opposite effect of hyping me, I'm largely indifferent to it as of now. I'm more interested in the emerging PC handheld scene than being kept on a string frothing at the mouth for whatever morsel of info Nintendo wants to grace us with. I'm just kind of over the way they brand themselves.
 
Nintendo discontinuing the gold points is some major bullshit. I hope they have something to replace it. Wouldn´t surprise me if Nintendo is going super greedy now like Sony and raises the price on everything while giving nothing in return.
 
The coins are valid for 12 months after they are earned. Third bullet point.
Think that was always the case. Perhaps something else will replace it. But you could use Gold points to buy IRL things too, that's going away - if so sad. Oh well got about 5 bucks in gold coins. I think I bought my last 1st party Switch 1 game so I'll use it up for something.
 
Damn this thread got full of negativity for whatever reason lol... As with many Nintendo complaints, I don't get the issue here, they're clearly redesigning the whole thing and points will still be redeemable for 12 months, what's the problem exactly?
 
Think that was always the case. Perhaps something else will replace it. But you could use Gold points to buy IRL things too, that's going away - if so sad. Oh well got about 5 bucks in gold coins. I think I bought my last 1st party Switch 1 game so I'll use it up for something.
you can buy real stuff with platinum coins, which I don't think go away
 
When you go full corpo
I expected these responses, you people really need to cool down your "anti corpo" war, most of the time (like, the vast vast vast majority of the times) it's not that people "suck corpos dicks!!" but just that they don't give a shit, which makes it feel you're all overreacting to everything lol
 
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I expected these responses, you people really need to cool down your "anti corpo" war, most of the time (like, the vast vast vast majority of the times) it's not that people "suck corpos dicks!!" but just that they don't give a shit, which makes it feel you're all overreacting to everything lol
No "war" going on, just a comment on your post defending nintendos shitty practice.
 
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