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Nintendo discontinuing Gold Points on the Switch eShop, ahead of Switch 2 release
(www.eurogamer.net)
Just buy a Steam Deck instead.
this post was submitted on 18 Feb 2025
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I play my Switch docked 99.9% of the time. One thing holding me back with Steam Deck is I keep hearing about complications with trying to play it docked on TV.
Steam Deck seems pretty amazing. Unfortunately, in my case, it's too big to travel with and I doubt my small hands will find much comfort.
Really hope they come out with a Steam Deck Lite. I know you can buy smaller handheld PCs but last I checked they were quite pricey (tbf I haven't checked recently)
I have small hands and my kids use it without complaining. It's bigger than a Switch, but not too much bigger. I've traveled with it plenty.
I love the thing and use it extensively whenever I can, but it is bulky and hard to fit into bags with other stuff. If there was a way to separate the palm rest bits and have most other things be flat, and thin enough, that’d make a huge difference. But the bulky palm rests attached to the thin body, it just unavoidably wastes some space, and even more if one wants to be safe and use the case.
But it’s not that bad, easily lived with. Doesn’t remove the fact that it could be much better in that regard though.
Still easily more portable than a laptop though! And much more comfortable to use for gaming, if that’s going to be the most common use case for a computer while you travel.
The Switch OLED is already a bit big to travel with for me but I make do and I'd prefer it to be smaller in hand. I had the lite and much preferred its form factor. OLED does have a much, much better screen. Different strokes for different folks. The Deck doesn't meet my use case, nad that's fine.
Ugh.
Man Nintendo enshitification is in full swing still. One of the worst since Iwata's passing. He is probably spinning in his grave
How dare they get rid of a dark pattern... /s
“My body is ready… to spiiiiiiiiiiiiiiin!” - Iwata-san, channeling inner Reggie Fils-A-Mech.
Oh no .. my $2
And millions of other people's $2. Congrats to Nintendo on their newfound wealth ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It was funny money to begin with.
As a product designer who sometimes does gamification, I love that term and my clients are gonna hear a lot more funny money
Man eshop has no refund policy... The gold points were actually kind of a cool part of shopping on there. Well that sucks.
Definitely a bummer to lose a service that just rewarded customers for buying Nintendo games, but I buy so few games anymore that they were rarely adding up to substantial amounts.
Still, from being a loyal Club Nintendo member to having earned a couple of full-priced games in the eShop thanks to Gold Points, I'm hoping they have a new loyalty program up their sleeves even if it doesn't make much sense for them to anymore.
That sucks. It wasn't much money tbh but a few bucks here and there was nice.
That suits me, I just dumped everything I had into renewing my online subscription. Half off.
It feels like this is the only way Nintendo feels comfortable going from a currency system on the Switch to the exact same thing on the Switch 2. Nary the twain shall meet.
They just don’t want to be hounded by anyone about transferring gold from one system to the other.
They just don’t want to be hounded by anyone about transferring gold from one system to the other.
Why do you need to transfer from one system to another? From my understanding (the last Nintendo device I owned was the OG gameboy) the gold points are roughly comparable to steam points. Why would it matter whether you have a Switch 1 or Switch 2?
Do I have to answer this question?
Money.
Gold points are earned by buying select Switch games and hardware. You use it to buy stuff online related to the Switch. Nintendo wants to reset everyone’s progress for the Switch 2. If you want to use gold to buy Switch 2 stuff it has to be gold earned buying Switch 2 stuff.
Greedy? Yes. But then again, it’s a rewards program they don’t even have to offer in the first place.
This was more of rhetorical question on my part. 😆
Nintendo doesn't need a loyalty program to gain fan favor. They already have that... And that's putting it nicely without any labels
Club Nintendo 2 time??