Poll: After One Month, How Often Are You Actually Using 'Nintendo Today'?

browsing through youtube is how I get my news

...tf is Nintendo Today???

I....forgot it even existed.

Maybe I'll...what were we talking about again?

I keep forgetting it's there. Most of my news is via the browser. Even on the phone, I'll sway towards news sites, as opposed to news apps.

Every day just to see what’s new. I was never that excited.

@speed_loafer Same, I've loved all of the orchestrated music and some artwork on the side.

3D views of the HDMI cable and wheels on the other hand was a little bit underwhelming to say the least. I actually wondered if they didn't let some sort of AI run the app for them XD

I usually open it just to see the new animation, but I rarely spend more than a few seconds in it. The feed is pretty underwhelming and I rarely click on anything now. I have a feeling I’ll forget about the app entirely in another month or two, but who knows

I follow their X and Youtube and visit here daily. I feel that does it for me just fine without the need it.

Like I need another app on my device to drain the battery. I see Nintendo news via the Switch and Youtube.

I use Nintendolife, Youtube, play-asia to get information about Nintendo games.

I open it now and then to see what's on it but it's never massively exciting. There's some nice artwork but it would be more useful if there was a better archive of that stuff rather than having to scroll back through the days. Having said that, they did recently treat us to a 3D view of the Switch 2 HDMI cable and a video of Donkey Kong pulling funny faces, and it's hard to imagine what more we could want than that.

I don't even have a smartphone so I don't use it. I just use nintendolife.

Never bothered downloading it. Just seems pointless because any information actually worth hearing will be made available elsewhere immediately.

Where's the option for "What's Nintendo Today?" Never heard of it.

I use it every single day. I've already gone through the entire Fire Emblem history, which was shocking to see because Nintendo talked about all the Japanese only games. All translated and localized for my country.

Now please actually translate and let us buy all these games Nintendo. You clearly know they exist.

It’s dead on, I open it most days, I like to see what the Pikmin are doing when they reveal the date for the day, have a little scroll, and that’s about it. Nothing earth shattering so far but pretty cute and fun.

Every day because it's better than reading useless commentary 90% of the time.

It feels funny to say that but: I think the app is too unobtrusive! I mean, this is one app that you actively download because you want the hype and advertising. But there's hardly anything coming through. I have all notifications turned on, but it might still be some setting I'm unaware of.

I check it quite regularly in case I miss something breaking.

Surprised I use it daily. The MKW screenshots and NSO GCN clips are just too fun.

Honestly? More often than I was expecting. I think it helps that they're showing things that they haven't revealed elsewhere, like the Smash Bros. Dojo. For example, yesterday they had a DK Bananza video and the BG music was an arrangement of Rambi's theme from DK64. And that's just pretty neat.

It's a small thing to be sure, but it's keeping me interested in the game. Means the app is doing its job.

I watched it "today"
Maybe once or twice a week.

I don't want a separate app for Nintendo news, I just check a feed on Bluesky.

Nintendo is a way of life
Nintendolife

I certainly haven’t been checking it on the regular. Not sure how big Nintendo’s footprint will be if they decouple from established social media platforms. Equally, I don’t blame them if they want to gradually pivot from Elon Musk’s flaming Hindenburg of a site.

Does it give anyone notifications? I selected yes but it never pings me. If it pinged me every day I would look - it’s one of the only apps I would actually like notifications for…

@NintendoWife ah we have the same issue! SEND ME NOTIFICATIONS PLEASE

I use Nintendo Today and was checking it daily at first. Now since the novelty has worn off, it's every few days or so. I check here more than the app on my phone.

I enjoy a lot of the content, even if a lot of it isn't anything groundbreaking.

It doesn’t work on my phone :/ I would use it maybe a couple times a week though perhaps? If I could.

It is an okay app, I like how Yunobo is one of the featured characters. I typically check it at least once a day

I think I forgot about this app five minutes after I read the story announcing its existence.

I use it daily but I wouldn't say I've been enjoying it a bunch. Has a bit of a Play Nintendo vibe to it. Not much actual news is shared. I like the calendar but I don't like how you have to turn on notifications manually for each event. Like when they update NSO games and Nintendo Music, those events are rarely shared in advance, so I don't know about the new content until I check Twitter and here. Kind of defeats the purpose.

I go on Nintendo Today daily, feeding my long-gone void that Quibi used to fill, of daily content to look at while cooking breakfast.

The content is alot of tidbits I’ve seen elsewhere. I do like getting the Splatoon idol bits and admiring extended details their models were given. Also, they’re going through the history of Fire Emblem now, which is alot of stuff that flew right passed me.

The Calandar stuff has been pretty useful so far. I’ve set notifications on for Developer Spotlights and Splatoon 3 events, but I wish I could set my own events on the calandar.

Not super interesting, and the calendar widget never updated past the second day, so deleted it on like Day 3.

My phone is too old to run it and I can’t afford a new one because I have preordered the Switch2.

I set up the little widget and I use it more. It'll be interesting to see how it evolves post S2 release.

I open every day for the animations

I open it every day mainly to see the day's short calendar animation. The occasional news and other things are just extra, but still appreciated.

It’s a silly little app and I love it. One gripe I have about it was the ability to say if things are cool, useful, cute etc. It makes me really uncomfortable whenever there’s art of the Xenoblade Women and like 80% say it’s cute. Small critique but one that just makes me feel icky

No physical no sale

As long as sites like Nintendo Life are reposting and promoting content from the app, it's doing its job.

I have not touched nor will I ever touch Nintendo Today. No use for it, anyway.

Honestly, most of my enjoyment comes from the animations that play for each new day. I love the Splatoon and Pikmin ones especially

I won´t never use it.

I even dont know where my smartphone is now. Maybe my wife is using it.

This is the first I ever heard of it.

This news article made me realise I haven’t been on it since it released. So I deleted it from my phone 🤷‍♂️ Thanks Nintendo Life

Using twice a day to check out the HDMI-cable in 3D.

Tried it, deleted it for space. I'd rather get my Nintendo news from your page and Nintendo's socials

Tried it to see what it's about. Now I'm eagerly awaiting a localised version the MyNintendo app to get my news that way along with all the other great features that app has.

I don't get Nintendo's communication strategy since they announced the switch 2. Nothing makes sense as they hold back useful info for no reason. Now they drip feed info through an app. I lost interest.

Forgot it even existed...

Now it's offline...what's going on with the app?

I really wish is had more themes like a Kirby theme would be great

Most days I just forget. Sometimes I pop in and there's the odd interesting thing, but nothing I can't get elsewhere. I must need to set some notifications or something because I always seem to miss when there's an F-Zero 99 special event/etc, or something like that. But most of the time I catch that on my Nintendo News through my Switch anyways so, six of one half dozen the other I suppose.

I use it often but it's not a good app to be honest.
It has so much unused potential.

I feel like it does the bare minimum, especially on actually informing you. Showing concept art from games is cool! Same thing for the accessories to a smaller degree. But that doesn't really give enough reason to check into the app everyday, especially when it advertses itself as "Nintendo News everyday". Also this site exists so...

Also I really hope there is an added Metroid theme

I like checking it once a day.

Yeah, this reeks of a Marketing Meeting bullet point: “Yeah, and we’ll give them daily updates with a new App!” Sounds great on paper.

I keep forgetting to check everyday, although I usually come in to see when they add a new Splatoon choreography.

Checked it when I first downloaded
It…never went back to it. Perhaps as we get closer to switch 2 release.

I set up the widget cause I thought it would just pop up with the news and instead it's just a calendar that has the creepy BOTW great fairies on it.

Many people seem to think it's exclusively a news app. But it's not. I go there to look at cool artwork, read fun comic strips, listen to cool live covers of Nintendo music, especially Xenoblade, watch some cute and funny videos and other stuff.

Didn't work as described, lol, would have been a helpful place to get clarification of all the questions we've had on things like "is the upgrade pack on the card?" Could announced it in a fun way if that seems too dry. What a waste.

@beltmenot Thank goodness. Neither do I. I know people find that so odd, but I just see people transfixed and it makes me sad. I still use a Nokia phone.

This is the first I've heard of it. Of course I don't have a smart phone, so it wouldn't do me any good anyway.

A huge disappointment. I was excited to see Switch 2 news come through this app and they only ever use to to show art of Mario characters. This isn't news. There has been so much misinformation about Switch 2 and this should have been one of the channels they used to clarify things, but nothing.

I still keep it installed, but I've never ever used it.

Just checked it today and the days before and one day after the big direct.

I check in qlmpst daily. Usually to check if theres a new Nook comic, some FE back story or cute artwork. The app isnt really for news, more like behind the scenes stuff and cool anecdotes.

They just don't show anything important on it. I don't really need a silhouette of Mario and then letting me know it's Mario!

Didn't they say important stuff would be on here? You'd think that in the month lead up to a system launch, they could do more.

Opened it once, a few days AFTER downloading it 💀

I used it the other day bc ACNH didn’t give me a bulletin item for Toy Day, but the calendar feature of Today isn’t updated with in-game events into the future (or past).

The posts here have been illuminating as I wasn’t expecting the app was so personalized. I picked Metroid to get more news about MP4, but it’s been rather light on Metroid series.

Fact: if you've played a Fire Emblem on Switch or selected the series as your preference, this app will give you a day to day history of the series, including the Japan-only games.

That alone made me revisit this app.

Daily, as in interesting, it's a cute stuff. I like it, but it's sure, it's not so informative.

This site is where I get my Nintendo news!

I have a flip phone, so obviously it is incompatible. As I mentioned in the "Ideas for the Site" forum, a weekly roundup would be appreciated! @nintendolife

Every day. It's like the anti-doom-scroll: short, and guaranteed not to contain stressful news or commentary. Just a few fun little tidbits about things I love.

I use it every day. It’s easy to check out in between breaks at work and just a quick scroll to see what catches my interest.

I’m the type of dude that enjoys a well organized story recap of the Metroid franchise in small bites. I like to see a live Zelda medley available to watch without having to do much but open an app and click once.

At times it’s just pictures or videos, then sometimes it’s like NintendoPower Lite, with an interesting little piece of info. I’m also a sucker for the box grid backgrounds lol

I downloaded it but I've never opened it.

Nintendo lives in their own delusional bubble where they would prefer to drip feed you mario advertisements into your brain.

What's my incentive to use Nintendo Today when Nintendo's priority lately is not-revealing things?😆 There's kind of no point for it lately. I think Nintendo just needs their own news feed page. Needing to open this app just feels like a homework assignment.

I downloaded it and never saw anything interesting in it. We only care about securing a switch 2 lately. I want to know about switch 2's 3d mario, but nintendo's keeping that secret indefinitely.

It has no compelling reason for ongoing use unless I’ve missed something

I tried, but I get confused about the info there, it's all over the place... Also between NL and YouTube I get all the Nintendo news I need.

Has there been anything useful or interesting on it? I pretty much got rid of it immediately after the switch 2 direct. I am curious, this is not a rhetorical ask.

It’s not as good at nintendolife 🤷‍♀️

I didn’t realize that the charge grip had buttons on the back side. So little things like that have been fun to discover with the 3-D views of hardware.

The news component is handy but I don’t understand the calendar function. I keep expecting a hyperlink to the content/webpage/youtube video but all it shows is a basic FYI that makes me go do the work to find the thing that inevitably, I don’t do unless it sounds really interesting.

I think I've looked at it every day. I'm not expecting to get much actual news out of it, but the bite-sized bits of concept art, concert performances, cartoons, and comics are a nice way to break up the monotony for a few minutes.

Daily, because I have a habit of doing it. The app itself, while not especially useful for news, is still quite good!

It’s just a data collection tool for Nintendo so that they can make things you like more expensive. I will not download it.

What's Nintendo Today?

I used it until the end of the first weekend.
It said new stuff everyday.
It had one, maybe two new things.

I forgot it was even a thing!

This is an app for journalists, not end users. Y'all can dig through the press release app and give us the news please, so that we don't have to.

I check it every morning. Its really nice. I didn't expect to keep using it but it really stuck. Its a pleasant experience like walking through a garden in the morning. Might not be a big enough dopamine hit for some though.

@karlhendrikse not really. Its just cute comics and concept art mostly with different edits of trailers.

I check everyday and leave disappointed every time

Never even heard of it

It's not glance-able. You have to watch a video just to find out what something is, and usually it's nothing worth your time.

So I imagine it will be as popular and successful as Miitomo.

I check it daily, but I gotta say...pretty disappointing. There's occasionally some fun Metroid concept art I haven't seen before, and I do like when they put interactable 3D models or footage from the upcoming DK game...but it's otherwise very bare bones. Barely much text either. It's a far cry from Nintendo Life, that's for sure.

Uhm... using what now?

I put the widget on my phone's main screen because a Zelda calendar is cooler than just a regular old calendar.

I put the widget on my phone and it looks pretty awesome. TBH I'm opening it on a daily basis because I like the art and the little piece of infos they put in there. I'm not using it to get my latest news from Nintendo.

I usually check in just to see if anything interesting has popped up. Not much to report on that front so far

Been using it daily, just to get some of that Nintendo charm in a small dose. And been really enjoying the orchestral versions of some of the music. It's a fun little app and the widget is a nice calender.

Notifications don’t seem to work properly for me, had one pop up for the Mario Kart direct and that was it, so I keep forgetting it’s there. Will probably delete.

genuinely never even heard of it.

Certainly not every day but I'd say twice a week or something. I usually catch up and check everything out. It's quite good.

Nintendo doesn't even care to tell me which personal data the App wants to suck out of my mobile/google accout. So this App is a big no-go for me.

Never downloaded it. I forgot this was a thing.

SwitchPlayerJohn "
I sync my Alarmo and Nintendo Today themes. I am committed to the ecosystem!"

And that, ladies and gents, is what businesses call a "consumer" 😄

I have it as a widget on my phone and when I see a picture which interests me I click on it.. it is how I learned about the two most recent nso updates..

and nitendo life is now often quoting it, so I guess it means it is quite fast in news too..

And it cheers me up to see a bit of mario... would be niced if it merget with the other app(s) ... 3 nintendo apps with limited functions seems a bit much

The amount of actual news or new info I get from it has been practically nonexistent. Even when they first used it to announce the Zelda movie date, I read about it online before checking the app, so it's felt pretty pointless overall.

I open it every day to see the cute animations and see if anything fun or exciting has popped up. I spent way too long looking at the 3D model of the pro controller the other day. It's not very useful, but it's cute, fun, and wholesome, and sometimes that's all I need

@father_noo Perhaps, stick with me here, maybe...maybe they're just a Nintendo fan?

I had downloaded it, but after the reveal of Switch 2 and how awful it all looks, I just deleted it. If this is how things are going to be now, Nintendo is dead to me and they aren't going to do anything else I'm interested in. Since BotW, they've been really hit or miss already, now it seems they are just doing misses and greed.

the thing that makes this app kinda useless is that "news" dont appear at the same time worldwide but are based on your local timezone

It is a nice little thing I look at everyday. It doesn’t stop me from coming here or other places.

Very rarely tbh. All it seems to be is a new video or 3D model of something. The lack of push notifications to alert you something new has dropped is a huge under sight imo

@joeyflannel I suppose someone was bound to take my comment seriously 😄

@father_noo Hahaha, happy to be of service!

Signed,
SwitchPlayerJoey

Utter garbage like all the other Nintendo apps

Everyone I’ve talked to says that they absolutely hate this app, everything about it. Maybe it’ll improve over time?

Haven's touched it as well as the music app since they are not available in Russian AppStore.
And I am lazy to bother myself with region changes for these apps.

It's cute.
Nothing particularly useful but I enjoy a little bit of Nintendo fun each day.
I must be weird. Everyone else seems to think it's "useless" so why bother...
Yeah...
I don't do anything with it... It just looks nice and sometimes has cute little videos or fun info.
Lighten up people!