Switch OS 2.0.0: public WiFi, eShop, My Nintendo, Friend Codes

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RolStoppable said:

irstupid said:

Didn't we always? I thought physical games came with a little slip of paper that you went online to enter the code and got credit for buying the game.

At least that was how it was back in the day when I purchased physical games.

Nope, when Club Nintendo was about to end, Nintendo didn't put any more codes in the boxes of new releases. And then, when the successor My Nintendo went live, it didn't change.

But the coin values for physical Switch games will be a lot lower than for digital purchases. A €60 game will only net a reward value of ~€1.50 in physical form, but ~€7 in digital form.

Well I like the reward for digital for a few reasons.

1. Buying digital suppots dev more directly. They get larger cuts.

2. Digital should be cheaper, but since it isn't the higher reward makes it sort of, since you can use those rewards to get deals on other digital games.

3. Digital, the company knows how much you paid. Say you buy a game from the bargain bin for $5 and then input the code and get credit for a $60 game. Meanwhile another person buys that same game digitally for $5 on some sale and only gets thus credit for a $5 purchase.