Nintendo Gold Points Discontinuing

This news is for long-time Nintendo users, especially those who manage their purchases wisely and efficiently enough to reach a point to buy one of their exclusive titles for less. As of March 24th, 2025 at 9:30 PM EDT. Nintendo Gold Points will be discontinued. This was the best way to manage purchasing some of the top-release titles from Nintendo. It was a great incentive and a well-loved feature for Nintendo fans. So it’s a little shocking to see the news that this feature will be discontinued. The other currency is not related to sales. Platinum coins will continue. Currency is gathered through Nintendo’s mobile games and interactive events for some exclusive titles. You can use them towards in-game rewards, digital/physical rewards, and sweepstakes.

The Gold points were easily earned through digital and physical purchases. Then recorded on your account, and could be seen on My Nintendo. Of course, they’d have a breakdown of when and how you earned them. The news dropped yesterday February 17th, 2025, readily available on your My Nintendo account page. The important notice, tells us there will be no change with gold points expiring. So regardless of gaining the points before the end date, they’ll expire 12 months from that purchase. They will uphold any pre-orders made before the cutoff time and date.

This is noted to only be towards digital purchases, and exclusive to Nintendo outlets. So the e-shop, Switch, and Nintendo site itself. Excluded will be any physical purchases and gold cards. You can use cards that mention gold points, but it will not have any effect. Finally, digital codes and purchases from the physical Nintendo store will no longer offer gold points after the date.

It’s already included in Nintendo’s customer support directory. A little long-winded answers and details if you need more. It’s truly a sad day for this feature. A lot of speculation is leaning toward this decision because of the future revealing of the Nintendo Switch 2. Possibly power plays, so we’re incapable of saving a few bucks with all the new possible title announcements. I think this was a successful run regardless of our losses now.

They might be doing this as a business move, but they’re not doing the fans dirty. A lot of precautions for the service to leave have been rolled out to us. It wasn’t just abruptly or silently shut down. We didn’t get distracted by some other situation or reason. They’re welcoming people to continue to benefit from the service as long as it’s before the shutdown. I think that deserves some praise. Are you upset about this change? Do you think Nintendo will start a similar system once we’re given the Switch 2?

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