Nintendo’s self-named My Nintendo rewards scheme has been going for a while now, and it’s long had a placeholder item in the Nintendo Rewards section for the Nintendo Switch, saying that these would be “coming soon”.
From March, you’ll now be able to turn the Gold points that you earn from buying things on the Nintendo eShop and from linking retail games to your account back into money off on fresh eShop purchases. 1 Gold point is worth 1p in real money, and these are earned at 5% for eShop Switch, Wii U, 3DS purchases, as well as when redeeming digital codes for games online. When buying retail cartridge games, it’s 1% of the un-discounted value instead.
That means that £40 spent on the eShop will net you £2 off for later purchases, while buying a £40 game on cartridge can be turned back into 40p.
These gold points won’t stick around forever though. They’re valid for a year, expiring at the end of a given month, which means that you’ll only have a small window of opportunity to turn the points earned from the Switch’s launch back into cash. Nintendo are pretty good at making sure you’re reminded about these with regular emails.
Source: Nintendo
kjkg
Unfortunate naming by Nintendo since it just looks like you’re offering your points to us Tef. First come, first serve yeh?
ron_mcphatty
Talking of which, I’m Level 6 with 8997 points, will that get me a pint and some scratchings at the TSA social club?
I got my first email reminder about point expiry this month, I think it was Mario Run coins. It was far from a clear email but thanks for the heads up Tef, I’ll be sure to spend what I have as soon as I can.
Stefan L
So, those wont get you much. The Platinum points are the ones you can earn in game or for certain actions with your account and have their own subset of rewards.
And I’ve only got 30 Gold points. Sorry to disappoint knight.
stubiedoo35
I’d rather spend them to get the free Wii U and 3DS games, you’d be getting more out of them. Going on the amount of stars they’ve been asking for for the Wii U and 3DS games If you have 200 stars I could get the 2 3DS games and the 2 Wii U games instead of spending 200 to get £2 off a Switch game.
fragster
Have bought several digital games since the Switch launched so I just logged into MyNintendo to check. 630 gold coins. Nice!