This Sunday, the Nintendo Switch will be two years old, meaning it's been two whole years since we first treated our eyeballs to that opening shot in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. If you live in Europe, this means that the My Nintendo programme will soon stop accepting registrations for any games that launched alongside the console on 3rd March 2017.
As you may be aware, My Nintendo Gold Points from the physical versions of Nintendo Switch games must be redeemed within two years of the official release date, regardless of when you bought the game itself. We've listed every Switch game that was released at retail on the console's launch day below (any games purchased digitally will have automatically collected your Gold Points).
- The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
- Super Bomberman R
- Skylanders Imaginators
- Just Dance 2017
- 1-2-Switch
Of course, as the weeks go by, other games will also start to be unavailable for points registration. If you need to double check the release date for any of your games, you can do so by searching for it in our mega game database.
As a reminder, the North American My Nintendo rewards programme only allows customers to register a game for one year from its release date. The likes of Zelda and 1-2-Switch are therefore now unavailable to register.
If you haven't claimed those points, make sure to do it this week. We'll leave you with some instructions on how to do exactly that:
- Insert the game card into the Nintendo Switch console.
- Highlight the game icon on your console's HOME Menu and press the + Button
- Select “My Nintendo Rewards Programme”
- Select “Earn Points (game card version only)”
Have you saved up many My Nintendo Gold Points? Do you use them to treat yourself to other games on the eShop? Tell us below.
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I tried to do that with Zelda recently (I'm in Canada) and it didn't work, said it was expired. Does anyone know if the delays different in America?
@jipiboily In America we're treated to one year only... (Same boat for us in Canada)
Thanks for the heads up, will get on that right now.
@RunGMhx Thanks so much for the reply!
Wow, that stinks. I didn't even know how to register until recently. Oh well.
Only one year in Australia as well, which is understandable for third party games, but I don't understand why this is also applicable to evergreen first party titles that hold their value for years on end.
Annoyingly, I can claim points for European imports, but not overseas titles if a physical release does not exist in Europe.
I always try to register my games as soon as they arrive if I remember, otherwise it's a pain in the butt when I have to go through like 20 or 30 cartridges one at a time. It's hardly even worth it with how little you get from physical copies.
@Silly_G That's because our games are just European copies anyway. I have American and Japanese accounts on my Switch so I just register to those if I import from those regions.
Huh, I didn't know about this. Zelda's still the only game I've bought physically but that should be good for a few quid off something or other...
All the games I could register already did... just like SSB to get Piranha plant.
I didn't know about the expiration, but luckily I went through all of mine last week which has given me enough to purchase Captain Toad's Treasure Tracker DLC and a little to spare ^_^
I'm always sure that the very first thing I ever do when popping in a brand new game in to my Switch is to first check for updates via the internet, and then register & collect the My Nintendo gold coins. Always before I launch the game, that way I never miss out on any coins.
It's crap that NA only allows for one year. Really, that's not a lot of time, especially if you wait on a purchase. I don't know why they can't just make it consistent across the board — make it two years everywhere.
I was also disappointed that most (all?) Limited Run games are not eligible.
@Tharsman I'm pretty sure I got points for the physical copy of Night Trap I have. Are you sure about this?
Guess this is something to keep in mind this time around as I probably will be purchasing physical releases mostly.
@akennelley1 I don’t have that one but the ones I tried to redeem said they were not “valid for my region” or something like that. I am in the US, and LR is a US publisher so I figured they were just somehow not participating.
Thanks for the heads up. Only have Zelda and I already collected the points from that (had to double check just to make sure).
Thanks for the reminder, will get to it!
Eh this article is wrong. It's not only in America that we only have one year, it's everywhere. I've tried with multiple titles including launch titles over the last few months, and it doesn't work. It's 1 year, so all launch games were DOA for registering.
@jipiboily Unfortunately it does seem like the amount of time they give you to register any game is 1 year after release date. I've tried BOTW, no dice.
yes this sucks. I tried to register a bunch a couple weeks ago only to realize that it expires after ONE year! That is dumb.
@Silly_G I was wondering how long in Australia, I must have got BotW just before points redemption expired here.
The only game I own on that list is Breath of the Wild, but it's already expired here in the US. On the other hand there were a couple other games I'd forgotten to register, so this wasn't a totally wasted effort.
WHAT?! Hang on, so Europe gets two years instead? What the hell! One year is nothing!
"Redeem x My Nintendo Points to get y % off game z".
Gee, it's a wonder I haven't cared since they closed Club Nintendo.
This is bad PR for new customers...
And I had gold points expire before I had anything I could do with them. Shame on you Nintendo.
I always register my carts the first time I play the game. Recentely I bought four used ones (Mario tennis, owlboy, xenoblade 2 and pikachu) and all of them had unclaimed points. The only game that never allowed me to redeem gold points was sonic mania plus edition (I bought it brand new on release date.) it says something like you can’t collect gold points yet.
The limit should be 5 years or more. These games are still selling at full price but Nintendo is too stingy to give out 60p in loyalty points.
mynintendo is honestly the most terrible reward system ever. Its insulting.
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