Nintendo seems to be broadening its horizons with the development of a subscription service and adding many new features to its online store in the meantime. One new feature it will be adding is My Nintendo Gold Points, with the company explaining how these Gold Points are redeemable for eligible digital games and DLC.

Gold Points are points that are rewarded to players based on the amount they spend on DLC or downloading software, like full games, on the Nintendo Switch. The points are awarded at a 5% rate and each point is worth one cent in US Dollars.

Players will earn each 5% on eligible digital purchases on Nintendo.com or the Nintendo eShop, and 1% will be earned on physical purchases for the Switch. However, for physical purchases, the points will be awarded at 1% of the Nintendo eShop price for the digital version of the game. So, if players are trying to rack up points, make sure to double check what the Nintendo eShop is selling the game for.

To break it all down, let’s say players buy one game at a full retail price of $59.99 on the Nintendo eShop. This purchase will earn players 300 Gold Points, resulting in $3.00 of redeemable points available for their next purchase. These Gold Points do expire about 12 months on the last day of the month in which the Gold Points were earned, so make sure to use them before they’re gone.

Players who desire to earn these Gold Points don’t have to do anything more than register their game via the HOME Menu on the Nintendo Switch, if they bought a game physically, or just download it to their console. These Gold Points are issued automatically, so players should never have to worry about doing anything extra beyond registering the game itself or downloading it.

When spending Gold Points, players are only able to spend it on eligible digital games (a list was not given at this time) and DLC. Players will not be able to buy items like season passes, automatic renewals, in-game items, or virtual currency. This can be a little limiting for some players, but if fans purchase a lot of games digitally, this can be very rewarding.

Nintendo seems to show no signs of slowing, as 2017 was one of the company’s most profitable years and the firm could stand to make $2.5 billion from the new ventures it's taking in 2018. This year should be one for the history books for the Big N, and Gold Points seem to be the first small step in a long line of bigger steps for Nintendo.

Source: My Nintendo