We’ll no longer earn My Nintendo Gold Points for purchasing Switch games, as Nintendo announced the program will be ending. People were able to use these to get a discount on digital purchases from the eShop. While earned points ahead of the shutdown will still be good for 12 months and expire in 2026. We can’t get them anymore starting at 9:30pm PT on March 24, 2025, which is 12:30am ET on March 25, 2025.
Basically, whenever you’d buy a Nintendo Switch game digitally or physically, you would also get points that could be used toward future purchases. While you couldn’t use it to get money or extend your Nintendo Switch Online membership, you could buy games or DLC with it. That program rolled out in March 2018. So as the company pointed out on its support site, you’d get 60 Gold Points from a $60 physical game or 300 Gold Points from a digital purchase. Since each point is worth a penny, it’d be like $0.60 or $3.
Starting on basically March 25, 2025, you won’t earn points from digital purchases, digital pre-orders or on physical copies of games released starting on that date. Points for games purchased on March 24, 2025 or released on or before that date physically can still be used until March 24, 2026. Nintendo New York store purchases will also no longer earn points on that date.
While Nintendo is cutting off the Gold Points program, it seems the Platinum Points will remain. These can also be earned via actions, and they can be put toward digital and physical rewards. However, you do have to pay to have physical ones shipped.
The My Nintendo Gold Points program ends on Switch game purchases at 9:30pm PT on March 24, 2025/12:30am ET on March 25, 2025.
Published: Feb 18, 2025 10:30 am