Nintendo Badge Arcade Receives Its Last Set of Badges in Japan Later This Month

I mean it is kinda of a ripoff if u ask me. Then again, Nintendo may use future badge sets as MyNintendo rewards. It's just an idea since there nothing on there🤷‍♂️

By that wording it seems like it might mean the final set of the POKEMON stamps will be released.

Badges were ok but they weren't worth paying money for. Also the games were definitely rigged. I wonder if they made enough money with it to make a Switch version worth making.

Big fat ripoff.

@HyrulianOfHyrule

My Nintendo could use literally anything to make it worth logging on weekly. People complained about Club Nintendo for no reason, but My Nintendo is so bad.

Nintendo Twitter says they're stopping because they're reaching the maximum save data capacity.

They should get this on mobile, just make it completely free, let people see all of the badges and all of the wacky things the rabbit says. I haven't played it the past year but I was really into it for a few months, that's longer than most mobile games hold my interest. It seemed like a great advertisement for all of the games they had badges for. Whatever it costs to port this has to be cheaper than that SuperBowl commercial, just let marketing pay for it.

I doubt they'll close it down, they'll likely just stop producing badges

I imagine they'll just put the badges on a random rotation once they stop producing new ones. It'll take an eternity to collect em all without paying for plays.

Awesome, I want to have a Pokemon badge. Thanks for the information.

I need to finish the original 150 Pokemon...that will drive me insane if I can't get more

@HyrulianOfHyrule I actually love this idea. Let us spend our (abundance of) platinum coins on badges to decorate our switches! Be great to have themes tied to platinum coins (or something like use so many platinum coins and get 50% off said theme).

@Serebii You're finally free

I won't loose sleep. I tried it and found it doesn't appeal to me.

They could make it work offline somehow, at least that's what I hope it happens.

I haven't even played the Badge Arcade in months. Just a waste of time and a rip off.

I don't play it daily (or even weekly), but I'm a bit bummed to see it possibly go.

I always did the daily practice catcher and that was fine. Free stuff. But it grew boring for me. Something about using the badges soiled themes. What was the point of buying a cool theme then sprinkling it with badges that look cheap and out of place (not to mention there weren't badges to match every theme)? I liked the idea of it, it was quite charming, but perhaps more customizable themes is a better idea. Maybe it's just me.

BUURRRPPPP!

Seems like an odd thing to do if they're about to push a new 2DS model.

As somebody who has only missed a day of this when I was away from the internet (don't mock me, I like badges), I'm quite excited for it to end, for like the last month it's been nothing but Kirby pixels and Pokemon pixels, it's getting dull, I'd probably stop if there weren't the daily badges alongside that weeks focus. I reckon that once the last set is out, it will either be completely shut, which would be stupid as uncompleted sets will then have no way to be complete, keep having the daily set of assorted catchers or somehow have every catcher there's ever been. I also know that there is at least one Animal Crossing catcher that I've never seen, so hopefully that'll appear at some point.

I hope that bunny finds a new job after they shut down his arcade. He seems like a cool dude.

(Edited. Sorry Serebii)

The way @MitchVogel wrote this article is misleading. Like @Paddle1 said, the reason is not because they are retiring the game, but simply because of 3DS save data limitations. They cannot cram in any more new badges or Arcade Bunny's speech patterns. After May 26, content will be repeated.

There are currently NO plans to shut it down.

I'm a little sad to hear it, if it is indeed the last update to the arcade. I think I literally played it every day until the Switch came out, and have even played a handful of times since.

They were on to something here. If it wasn't so expensive, I'd have likely paid for a LOT more goes. I paid twice, I think (to get some themes). I know it would sound preposterous to Nintendo, but if they priced each go at something like 5p, I think a lot more people would have bothered with it. But of course, it wouldn't be very intuitive going back and forth to the clunky purchasing screen.

Perhaps this sort of idea would work better on the Switch. We would of course need some themes first.

@gardevoir7 No. It's the final badges for everything. It's only listed as Pokémon as I only post Pokémon

@MitchVogel
Please rewrite this misleading sentence "but it would seem that Nintendo is finally beginning the process of retiring the game." It's not.

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If you understand Japanese, Bunny clearly says the memory of the 3DS console is the limiting factor, and (in red text) NOT about retiring the game. Even if they wanted to add more, they could not, as it would ruin people's save data for those who aim to complete every set.

That Rabbit and Rusty need to get together and start some kind of hybrid free-to-start business.

... Then again, maybe not.

Played it since day one everyday, never paid for a go, so far up to 1,700 badges collected. I HATE THAT RABBIT

Eh, I had some fun out of it, but I stopped playing it for a while since I was caught by eShop sales.

Not too surprising if it's on its last legs soon.

@Nintendo_Ninja

I love My Nintendo. It's so bad.

I always hated the 1000 badge limit. Once they eventually close the servers (which hopefully won't be for a few years yet), people who forked over money would lose access to a lot of them.

@HADAA I didn't write this article. I only wrote the one on Serebii.net

@HADAA Mitch @SwitchVogel is the writer of this article.

Utter rubbish, and very damaging to the Nintendo brand. Let's hope it never comes to the switch!

Finally!

Custom badges will live on forever!

I was playing it every day since release, but I've given up on it about a month ago. Never looked back. The app is a sleazy piece of trash, and I fully agree with @Lord as it is an absolute stain on Nintendo's image. I doubt that a day went by without me cursing that damned rabbit and yet I kept going back for more (I've never spent a cent on it though).

Now if only Pokémon Shuffle would bite the dust already as I'm hopelessly addicted to it. Shuffle is the first (and last) F2P game I will ever play. Everything else can go to hell.

I like Badge Arcade but I have only paid for it a handful of times, most of the time it's strictly seeing what I can get for free on an occasional basis

I just want a Pixel NES badge that I can put on my NES games folder! All the rest of my VC folders have the console/handheld badge on, but I don't really want to use a Famicom badge. At the moment I have an 8-bit Mario...

@Shinnos Me too! I don't have all of the consoles I need for the VC, but I do have 8-bit Mario on the NES folder.

To everyone else:
I always thought this was a fun little thing to play. I would often pull it up on a daily basis to get badges. I didn't see anyone else mention this, but their value was GREATLY increased for me when Swapdoodle was introduced. I found that to be a lot more fun than just throwing them on my theme.
It's quite weird to me, though, that the end is due to a save data restriction. I don't understand how Nintendo didn't have the foresight to plan for this...

I got the badges I wanted a long time ago, some badges to use for folder icons and some skeletons, not the one to go crazy with the badges.

I take this as a sign that support for 3DS is dwindling. Add to that the lack of 3DS in the E3 presentation, I'd say things are winding up

Everyone to their own and I get why they did it. But I really was not a fan of all the garbage they integrated into the OS on 3ds. Badge Arcade, all the Mii stuff and lots of crappy apps, it was all a bit of a mess. I am sure it made them lots of cash but one of the things I enjoy about the Switch is how streamlined it all looks. Obviously that is not too hard with the lack of content at present.

Can you get all the badges they have release if I download this today?

Bring this and themes to Switch! I'm sure lots of people would rather have a fun Nintendo themed home screen, menus, etc. than a boring white or black background. Also the Switch eshop needs to be more like the Wii U eshop, currently the Switch eshop feels very dead. It needs to feel more alive with stuff like music.

That's okay, I used to play it a little and got badges I wanted

@Jessica286 No, they remove some and add some at random times, or bring other ones back.

I play it most days, but very rarely pay. If Nintendo weren'tbeing so greedy with the price (as usual), I'd have probably given them more money.

Good. I have two 3DS' and I visit the arcade badge on each one daily. It's so tedious and annoying. I don't know why I just don't uninstall the app and forget about it. Seriously. I have a love/hate relationship with this thing lol.

I've been using Badge Arcade (albeit less and less now) to get the Legend of Zelda and Pokémon badges as they become available. I also have many Super Mario badges but lately the arcade here in North America has been doing a lot of WarioWare and Nikki badges which I just don't care about. Hopefully more Pokémon badges arrive. I really want a badge set of all of the Pokeballs...I'm surprised this hasn't made its way to the Arcade yet. They seem like they'd be a no-brainer.

@NewAdvent Since Switch has the ability to change themes (albeit just black and white right now), I wouldn't be surprised if something like this appears on Switch when Nintendo opens up the ability to download different themes. It's an obvious cash-grab that Nintendo probably won't pass up. That said, I wish the Switch had StreetPass. It wouldn't actually be hard to implement the feature on Switch, the hardware is all there...all Nintendo needs to do is implement it in a firmware update. Hopefully they'll do this when Switch penetrates the market further.

@HyrulianOfHyrule I'm not too sure, I quite enjoy the badge arcade & don't spend a penny. A couple of free plays on weekdays & a couple more for the practice catcher. Got a good few sets of badges that way.

@sillygostly I fully agree here! I too played Badge Arcade for over a year until I got all the (non-pixel) Pokémon and most of the Super Mario Bros. I never started anything other than Mario or Pokémon just to protect myself from the urge to collect them all. It's expensive, and really silly if you think about it. I did pay about 3 times for a few themes and for the pixel console sets for my menu's VC folders.

Pokémon Shuffle at least has actual gameplay and is pretty fun, but even though I played a few 100's of hours on that too, I stopped playing daily a few months ago after feeling 'cheated' again and thought it'd be the last time!! I still boot it up on occasion but don't aim on getting all Pokémon anymore. The winking Pokémon are one of the cheapest additions and the latter stages are often kind of rediculous.

@TsukiDeity
Sadly, since it is an idea that makes logic sense, My Nintendo will probably steer totally clear of it.

Maybe they'll release a wallpaper of all the badges... for 100 gold coins.

Considering they capped it at 1000 badges per system that it can even display at once, and then didn't bother to bring over any of this from 3DS to Switch, I can see why it's ending..I used to log in every morning to get my free play, but gave up around the time I ordered my Switch.

I enjoyed catching badges and played it daily for a time (several months), I think the idea of collecting and decorating your system was an ingenious way to personalize the system.

I did put some money into it, but I felt like some maps are kind of rigged, and it became frustrating to me over time because of this. The great badges are usually hidden behind less appealing ones. I think for being digital, they definitely could make it more value for the money without actually costing themselves anything extra. I liked how they would create various themes or special versions of badges (holiday themed, crossovers, pixel, etc).

The bunny's speech and prompt to pay became tedious over time (if I want to pay, I'll pay, no need to remind me). At a certain point I had more badges than was really necessary, so that slowed my collecting down as well.

For the time, it was a fun thing to play and look forward to, so I'm glad it exists, but I'd want to see it provide more value and less cash grabby if they continued with it. The idea people have proposed of allowing Nintendo rewards to purchase plays would be a solid idea.

Good riddance to this. Why couldn't they just make a claw game that you could buy and play and unlock goodies in? Oh yeah I forgot, it's because Nintendo is greedy and cares more about the amount of money they can get than the satisfaction of their loyal gamers.

I'm unable to enter since almost a year, i dunno why, someone else has this issue?

I still play this every day and enjoy it. I'd welcome a switch version.

Now the race for 100% completion can begin.....once we catch up with Japan anyway.

I wanted Xenoblade badges. I think there were no more NEW badges but the service will continue with the same old ones (there are more than 2500 badges aprox).

One of the buggiest game I've ever played. On my old 3ds, the load times are horrible. many instances as I enter into the game, it will say file corrupted and need to re-download my game info from server. However, just recently it has stopped working altogether, even when I tried to delete and reinstall the game, it refused to start... and there goes my 1000 over badges -_-

I am going to admit something to everyone here...

I have been playing Badge Arcade consistently since release, where when I use the word consistently, I mean every single day.

I get up, pour a bowl of cereal, play my free play/training badge round and see what I get... I have over 1500 badges according to my little statue in the center of my Arcade. I'm nearing 2000...

I have spent probably only 10 total on the Arcade and for the launcher badges it's been worth it. Hell its worth it even for pinning them to folders for those neatness nerds like myself out there.

I love how you can add them to your swapdoodle messages too...

I don't know... overall yeah I fully admit it's kind of a ripoff but I have to admit I've had as much fun collecting these badges as I have Pokémon, ESPECIALLY the 8-bit badges.

I'll be sad to see it go honestly. I genuinely enjoy it.

@CheezIt These reactions are hilarious. "Oh noes, Nintendo making Free to play games, that means they're evil and greedy". Seriously, F2P isn't inherently bad alright.

On Topic though, I'm gonna miss it a little. Badge Arcade wasn't perfect (some of the later cranes are poorly designed IMO), but I liked the idea of home menu decorations released under the guise of a game. And the Free-to-Play aspect actually goes towards a substantial element to the entire system.

I've been playing this (almost) every day for quite a while to get free plays in, but truthfully lately I haven't played it much at all, ever since the Switch came out. I just stopped caring about the badges, especially since the free plays are never, ever, ever, EVER enough to get them all, unless you're just insanely good at the game (or are just very lucky), and know which machines to go for since some come back more often than others.

I did dish out a little bit of money for it, but only to get some Yoshi related badges, which really hasn't been all that much. At most I spent €5 on this, and don't plan to spend any more. That said, it was still fun to start this up and just see what new badges they brought in, and I actually kind of enjoyed the rabbit's commentary too. Until his commentary started taking a real backseat over time. But oh well.

I love the badge arcade.Sad to see that they will not be making any new badges in the future.How they bring it to the Switch when I get one.

Honestly, as much as the novelty of collecting badges was fun for a short while, the way Nintendo handled it made it get old and really cheap not long after. After all the negative reception the game has received, I feel it would be tone-deaf to release a sequel to this on the Switch.

This, like Streetpass Mii Plaza, was just a way to encourage people to keep using their 3DS on a daily basis.
Mii Plaza has been inactive for over a year now... since around the time Badge arcade was launched outside of Japan... so chances are the end of Badge Arcade just means they're moving on to something else.
It could be that they are just moving on to smartphone games, which are designed to keep you playing in a similar way, or they could just be planning to release individual games on the 3DS similar to the mini-games of Mii Plaza... with Team Kirby Clash Deluxe possibly being the first of these.

@BezBot that sucks, oh well maybe Switch will have something similar.

That's sad, I really liked the arcade aND looked forward to new badges! I know when the Monster Hunter badges come out I'm definitely getting all of them. Here's hoping a Switch variant or somethin' that Bunny would be a waste of a character.