Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

@zitpig Well that statement is actually true.

Do you know in the US they had "Platinum" membership and rewards? That wasn't a thing here, ever, to my knowledge. So technically, that statement is true

@YummyHappyPills - Yeah, each region had their own "entitlements" some were better than others. Except in Japan, where everthing was better than anywhere else!

The site again hasn't posted the Japanese charts, they're over a day late. Time to drop them an e-mail. I wonder what spin they'll put on them this week. "Nintendo have 80% software chart domination."

@YummyHappyPills There was some pretty neat stuff during the Wii era as well though. Mario Galaxy OST is one I remember. When the Wii U came around, most of the rewards became digital downloads.

@Octane I got the 3D World soundtrack CD when it closed, as well as the Smash CD.

@SLIGEACH_EIRE
Why does it matter? We know PS4's gonna be ridin high with MH and there's no way Switch or any of its games are gonna be higher.

@rallydefault It's not very professional to ignore the charts just because MHW and PS4 are riding high. All the other Nintendo centric sites published them yesterday afternoon and they don't put spin titles on the story like, "Nintendo Software Dominates The Week's Japanese Charts" when clearly last week it was all about the monstrous sales of MHW and PS4 selling x3 that of Switch. Anyway, it's not like Switch sales are bad and Nintendo software feature heavily in the chart.

Worms WMD no longer coming to retail on Nintendo Switch.

Golf Story and Rocket League (along with most of it's DLC) are on sale on the US eShop.

I'm honestly pretty happy about the changes to My Nintendo. While after everything I've bought has earned me $5, one of the things I purchased digitally was Rayman Legends for AU$60. That alone in the new system would earn me $3 so it's funny to think how much I would have earned had the new system been in place from the beginning.

I also much prefer to get some of my money back then earn coupons because then I'm always stuck waiting for a discount on a game I want AND don't already have. With how much My Nintendo updated that never happened.

In comparison to Club Nintendo, nearly all of the rewards for my region were like game cases or stands. There were some cool things, like hanafuda cards but not much. I only ever earned free rewards and only spent points when the service was ending because digital titles were finally on offer.

I'm happy with the changes provided it's usable on any game and not the "select" games I saw on a tweet. if that's the case then they haven't improved what I believe to be the fundamental issue with the program.

Okay okay trying to make sense of this gold coins thing but I've read to much and now I'm confused!!

I have seven full price retail games unregistered. If I register them after the new system comes in how much do I have in gold coins and what does that equate to in eshop credit??

Can I then use this to out right buy a digital game (assuming for arguments sake the game was cheap enough) or would I be limited to only ever receiving a fixed discount??

@MisterPi
The news feature I saw once I logged into My Nintendo said points can be used on any digital Switch purchase.

For people trying to figure out how many points and then money you earn. Just skip the points in your calculations.
You get 5% of your money back from digital purchases and 1% of the eshop price back for physical. Say you spend $50 digitally, you get $2.50 back (250 points). Say you buy physical and the eshop price is $50, you get $0.50.

@PLATINUM7 I think for NoE, but NoA sent this out

"A #MyNintendo update in early March will let you redeem Gold Points for select digital games and DLC for #NintendoSwitch!"

Not sure how to embed tweets

I hope it's not select titles. If it's another case of NoA being different to NoE, they'd better change that.

If that's the case, I definitely praise NoE, they've often times gotten the short end of the stick, so this would be a nice change for them I'm sure. But yeah, that doesn't excuse that we'd be getting the short end this time.

@PLATINUM7

Thanks for laying it out simply without opinion my man

@MisterPi Just copy and paste the tweet link.

@Azooooz oh, of course it's that simple lol. My bad, I never have used Twitter

I'm totally fine with the 5% back, I think it's pretty decent and with all the digital games I buy I should do quite well from it. However the paltry amount our current lot of coins will be worth this time next month I'm not so fine with. I've got around 1500 gold coins currently but under the new system I would have had around 7,500 instead. So if I had waited a year and then bought all the same games I would have earned $75 of Eshop credit. All I'm going to get though is $15. That's pretty crap no matter what way you look at it. Is it possible Nintendo will adjust our current totals to what they should be worth from next month?