Comment on Nintendo discontinuing Gold Points on the Switch eShop, ahead of Switch 2 release
Agent_Karyo@lemmy.world 4 days agoThey 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?
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 4 days ago
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.
Agent_Karyo@lemmy.world 4 days ago
This was more of rhetorical question on my part. 😆