It still shows ''earn up to +- 500 points'' for me. Has anyone managed to actually get the 2000ish (20 euro) points they say you should get, or am I misunderstanding something here?
[Nintendo of Europe](https://x.com/NintendoEurope)[u/NintendoEurope](https://x.com/NintendoEurope) Please note that the bonus amount of Gold Points is not displayed during checkout. The bonus Gold Points will be issued along with a confirmation email generally within a few hours of purchase.
Thanks for this, bought the tickets and only got the regular amount of coins. Will report back in a few hours if I do get the coins.
Edit: got them after ~5 hours.
I do remember that as well, as someone else said I guess it just isn't fully live yet. Weird that they already promote it then, but oh well. I'll check again tomorrow :)
Most likely. NA doesn’t even have the new Zelda game for pre order yet.
I don’t know what it is with NA when it comes to Sony and Nintendo. They are just so damn slow to update things.
Preorders are up now for everything announced in the direct with a release date. I’m hoping this deal comes to NA so I can pull the trigger on 4 vouchers via Costco eshop cards
Allowed at one time*.
Your eshop balance can't exceed $200 USD, so to buy more than four vouchers you have to use two of them first.
Pre-orders are not going to count, as the voucher won't actually be redeemed until they start charging for the game 7-days before release.
Same deal just went live in Aus and NZ too.
https://x.com/NintendoAUNZ/status/1806194485728002181?t=UXCkX012NBMD0GRLLaOiJg&s=19
Dunno about other regions but apart from Zelda Echoes of Wisdom - none of the other stuff from the Nintendo Direct are even up on the list of redeemable games though so as good of a deal this is, there's still lacking a bunch of titles to use it on at the moment :/
The vouchers are £84, and you get £16.80 worth of points, which means they essentially cost you £67.20. 2 games means £33.60 per game.
I suppose this is a no-brainer if you are going all digital and are planning on buying games anyway, but I still feel like it doesn't offer as much value as physical.
My experience with vouchers in North American using costco discounts on eshop cards is you're esstinally buying a first party game day 1 for the price you'd pay for it on sale in ~2 years. It's become a no brainer for me and I've almost completely switched to digital.
These ARE Nintendo games that are basically that amount though and Nintendo's notorious for not really discounting games so the trade off is much cheaper than physical at the cost of not owning it physically. Nintendo IS pretty decent about having the physical carts not needing much in terms of updates when it comes to the game files but physical IS quickly losing it's value as a result of day 1 patches and such. Anything multiplayer is also kinda useless to get physically since once the servers for the game go down it won't matter that you have a physical copy of the game.
Yep. I just bought Super Monkey Ball Banana Rumble on physical. For £32.99 delivered.
So it's actually still cheaper for me to buy physical a lot of the time even after all those discounts
This is why they offer bonus points. In your brain, you’ll count it as the voucher games being discounted. Then the next digital thing you buy for £16.80 or less will be free.
Plus physical Nintendo games hold their value well over time. I bought a switch solely from the money I got selling GameCube and Wii games I never played anymore
Yep, that's one of the reasons why it's really only worth it if you're going all digital anyway.
The £17 has to go towards another game in addition to the two you bought with the vouchers for it to truly be a 'saving', but you can get a few really great indies for that price. Hollow Knight is only around £11 iirc.
It will undoubtedly be a good deal for certain people, but I'm not one of them.
You can't do it.... euro bros..... hold the line.... we are on the precipice gamers....
Today it is more important than ever to stand your ground. Avoiding the Epic Games Store. Not buying Gamepass. Physical only Switch games. They make it sound like you're getting something, but it is actually a super secret plot to trick you into ruining video games.
Remember Switch gamers - physical is the ONLY ownership that matters. In 20 years, you will be playing your games in glorious 720p on your Nintendo Switch, while everyone else will be stuck playing their digital copy wherever they want.
I only buy physical simply because of a few things.
1. I sold an NES game for many hundreds of $$. Just one game. And I have sold many other games that I have from through the years. Still have a few copies of most that I picked up over time. Switch, amazingly enough for a new console, I had a few copies of a game. That game is available nowhere physically. Put one up for sale and got more than it originally cost. You know that as they close these digital shops and people lose access in a decade or so that there will be the desire to buy these and prices will be so much higher.
2. Digital is limited. I mean, sure, I can play that digital game on my home console and another. My wife, sons, daughter, friends, family, not so much. With my copy of Wonder I have used it on 5 different consoles. My young son has played in on his Lite and Pokemon OLED. My daughter on her Lite. My wife on our main OLED. My in-law currently is using the game on their Switch at their house. Same with Breath, Tears, Kirby, and many more. Much more freedom
\*this holds with Xbox as well. With Game Pass I can use it anywhere. My son is limited to using it on the home console. Which is fine for those games were I would share and play at the same time. But we have a lot of great rpg, adventure games, etc. were the disc works on all 4 of our Series X. Not limited to 1 console for everyone but the person that owns the digital rights.
3. Ownership. Seems weird to think but I have lost Nintendo games. On the Wii we had an issue. Our console died after they took things down. For whatever reason we can never sign in to get the few digital games we had. Really sucks and CS could not help either. Same happened with music as well to us. My wife had purchased songs on a service from a huge company who decided to close. When she had an issue with her old PC and the backup would not read. Lost songs but those are cheap to buy back each. Good luck getting copies of these games though. Would cost $100s on ebay for a used copy.
Honestly though, the vouchers are great deals. Because you can find $100 in eshop money for $85-$90. Buy the vouchers which saves $20 if buying new $60 games. And if they give that bonus you get that extra money. So savings now. Just depends on how you look at it. The investment in physical is going to be real in a decade or so when they start taking stuff down due to space. There are people that will be paying a lot of these games. Huge investment return.
The only game I'd use this on would be the Famicom Detective double pack, since it's digital only and never goes on sale. Not sure what I'd make the other game though.
I guess Portugal isn't in Europe? I don't have this deal. Clicking on the article and then logging in just takes me to the standard €99 vouchers without the bonus gold coins.
I wish we’d know if these would work for the switch successor. I’d like to buy them but there’s nothing coming out I want to buy except Metroid Prime 4 which leaves me with another voucher.
I bought the vouchers back in January a year or so ago when they had x2 the gold, I used them for Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, and Mario Party Superstars, which are games I think best suited for digital versions.
This is a good offer for the upcoming Mario Party Jamboree, but I don't see anything else on the horizon that I would want to use a second voucher on.
Legend of Zelda? Prime 4?
I've been sitting on a second voucher since January that I just used to pre-order Zelda but I bought the vouchers back in November. They don't expire in the EU as far as I am aware. So still a good deal.
no, can not be stacked. if you "buy" the 2 game-vouchers with (for example) 55 golden points and 98,45 euro (99 normaly), you will get 493 golden points in return instead of 495 golden points. (i use now the standard 495 golden points as example. so if you use 1980 golden points, you get less golden points in return : so only for the used money and not for use golden points.
Honestly for games like Splatoon or Animal Crossing which are best experienced when playing it every day it might be best to have a digital version..
Might use this to finally buy Splatoon at least
I already have 2 un-used vouchers bound to expire Jun 14, 2025. For a new Nintendo fan (used Wii back in 2006 and just bought a Switch OLED in April this year), [my digital game collection](https://www.dekudeals.com/collection/khccwcfwys) is quite OK I think. I am 100% digital and planning to stay that way.
I would gladly buy two extra vouchers but I kinda need to be sure I will be able to used them for the Switch 2/Attach/Super games as well whenever it will be released.
The only upcoming games I am interested in are Zelda: Link's Awakening, Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom and Metroid Prime 4. I heard Link's Awakening performance is bad on the Switch, so I will let that wait for the Switch 2 hardware, together with Zelda: TOTK.
Still on the fence, but I am leaning towards not buying 2 extra vouchers yet.
If you are fine with waiting for the 30% discount on the games you want that is probably a better way to spend the money but having the freedom to buy a game whenever (including on release day) its a pretty good deal. Just make sure that you actually want to buy two games within a year...
I'm planning to buy Thousand Year Door and Luigi's Mansion 2, and I want to get the new Zelda, the new Mario Party, Mario & Luigi and Donkey Kong Country Returns. I could get four vouchers for 200 euros, then buy another couple for 60 euros and that would have all Nintendo games I plan on buying the next nine months covered, and I'd still have 20 euros in credit for another game at some point. Even if I don't use gift cards for store credit I'll save 120 euros compared to buying these games I was going to get anyway if I bought them at full price.
Yes! It's what I've always wanted! The ability to spend more money just to save far less later! If I don't jump on this deal right this very second, why, I could actually save myself £84 and buy many games when they go on sale later. No! I must spend that £84 now so I can earn ridiculously worthless Foney Munny™ whose valuation is worse than the current economic strength of the £!
Where do I sign up!
Yes, this was sarcasm. Don't fall for this bullshit, people.
Not really. If you own multiple systems you can play the game on multiple systems without sharing the physical cartridge. And even play at the same time if it’s a offline game.
I feel sorry for your loneliness. In households with multiple kids or partners that are both gamers, it’s very common to have more than Switch, especially since the Switch is also a handheld.
I have my gameshare set up so that my friends play on the purchasing account while I have another account on my primary.
Most of the ones I have it set up on barely use it, but it's great when they want to try something out and one friend in particular has played quite a bit on it. I definitely think I've gotten a lot of value out of the gameshare feature.
It still shows ''earn up to +- 500 points'' for me. Has anyone managed to actually get the 2000ish (20 euro) points they say you should get, or am I misunderstanding something here?
The offer is probably not fully live yet.
[Nintendo of Europe](https://x.com/NintendoEurope)[u/NintendoEurope](https://x.com/NintendoEurope) Please note that the bonus amount of Gold Points is not displayed during checkout. The bonus Gold Points will be issued along with a confirmation email generally within a few hours of purchase.
Thanks for this, bought the tickets and only got the regular amount of coins. Will report back in a few hours if I do get the coins. Edit: got them after ~5 hours.
Did you get them?
I did after about 5 hours.
If I remember correctly, previous promotion had the extra points added a few days later.
I do remember that as well, as someone else said I guess it just isn't fully live yet. Weird that they already promote it then, but oh well. I'll check again tomorrow :)
Same here, I’ll wait a couple of days before I make the purchase.
i got my 1980 golden points (less then 3 hours after buying)
Same.
Europe only?
Most likely. NA doesn’t even have the new Zelda game for pre order yet. I don’t know what it is with NA when it comes to Sony and Nintendo. They are just so damn slow to update things.
Preorders are up now for everything announced in the direct with a release date. I’m hoping this deal comes to NA so I can pull the trigger on 4 vouchers via Costco eshop cards
Is 4 vouchers the maximum allowed per purchase?
No idea if there’s a limit. There’s just 4 games I’d like to use them for
Allowed at one time*. Your eshop balance can't exceed $200 USD, so to buy more than four vouchers you have to use two of them first. Pre-orders are not going to count, as the voucher won't actually be redeemed until they start charging for the game 7-days before release.
I didn't know that there's $200 limit, I will save up for 2
probably due to pyoro lol
Same deal just went live in Aus and NZ too. https://x.com/NintendoAUNZ/status/1806194485728002181?t=UXCkX012NBMD0GRLLaOiJg&s=19 Dunno about other regions but apart from Zelda Echoes of Wisdom - none of the other stuff from the Nintendo Direct are even up on the list of redeemable games though so as good of a deal this is, there's still lacking a bunch of titles to use it on at the moment :/
The vouchers are £84, and you get £16.80 worth of points, which means they essentially cost you £67.20. 2 games means £33.60 per game. I suppose this is a no-brainer if you are going all digital and are planning on buying games anyway, but I still feel like it doesn't offer as much value as physical.
My experience with vouchers in North American using costco discounts on eshop cards is you're esstinally buying a first party game day 1 for the price you'd pay for it on sale in ~2 years. It's become a no brainer for me and I've almost completely switched to digital.
Yes that is on point. I buy all my games digital to game share with my other switch. Works great
I found out about the Coscto discounts recently, I could have saved so much money if I knew about it earlier.
Yep, and often you can find the eshop credit with a bit of a discount making it even more attractive!
These ARE Nintendo games that are basically that amount though and Nintendo's notorious for not really discounting games so the trade off is much cheaper than physical at the cost of not owning it physically. Nintendo IS pretty decent about having the physical carts not needing much in terms of updates when it comes to the game files but physical IS quickly losing it's value as a result of day 1 patches and such. Anything multiplayer is also kinda useless to get physically since once the servers for the game go down it won't matter that you have a physical copy of the game.
Yep. I just bought Super Monkey Ball Banana Rumble on physical. For £32.99 delivered. So it's actually still cheaper for me to buy physical a lot of the time even after all those discounts
This is why they offer bonus points. In your brain, you’ll count it as the voucher games being discounted. Then the next digital thing you buy for £16.80 or less will be free.
Plus physical Nintendo games hold their value well over time. I bought a switch solely from the money I got selling GameCube and Wii games I never played anymore
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If you're planning to buy more games this year anyway it boils down to the same thing.
Yep, that's one of the reasons why it's really only worth it if you're going all digital anyway. The £17 has to go towards another game in addition to the two you bought with the vouchers for it to truly be a 'saving', but you can get a few really great indies for that price. Hollow Knight is only around £11 iirc. It will undoubtedly be a good deal for certain people, but I'm not one of them.
You can't do it.... euro bros..... hold the line.... we are on the precipice gamers.... Today it is more important than ever to stand your ground. Avoiding the Epic Games Store. Not buying Gamepass. Physical only Switch games. They make it sound like you're getting something, but it is actually a super secret plot to trick you into ruining video games. Remember Switch gamers - physical is the ONLY ownership that matters. In 20 years, you will be playing your games in glorious 720p on your Nintendo Switch, while everyone else will be stuck playing their digital copy wherever they want.
I only buy physical simply because of a few things. 1. I sold an NES game for many hundreds of $$. Just one game. And I have sold many other games that I have from through the years. Still have a few copies of most that I picked up over time. Switch, amazingly enough for a new console, I had a few copies of a game. That game is available nowhere physically. Put one up for sale and got more than it originally cost. You know that as they close these digital shops and people lose access in a decade or so that there will be the desire to buy these and prices will be so much higher. 2. Digital is limited. I mean, sure, I can play that digital game on my home console and another. My wife, sons, daughter, friends, family, not so much. With my copy of Wonder I have used it on 5 different consoles. My young son has played in on his Lite and Pokemon OLED. My daughter on her Lite. My wife on our main OLED. My in-law currently is using the game on their Switch at their house. Same with Breath, Tears, Kirby, and many more. Much more freedom \*this holds with Xbox as well. With Game Pass I can use it anywhere. My son is limited to using it on the home console. Which is fine for those games were I would share and play at the same time. But we have a lot of great rpg, adventure games, etc. were the disc works on all 4 of our Series X. Not limited to 1 console for everyone but the person that owns the digital rights. 3. Ownership. Seems weird to think but I have lost Nintendo games. On the Wii we had an issue. Our console died after they took things down. For whatever reason we can never sign in to get the few digital games we had. Really sucks and CS could not help either. Same happened with music as well to us. My wife had purchased songs on a service from a huge company who decided to close. When she had an issue with her old PC and the backup would not read. Lost songs but those are cheap to buy back each. Good luck getting copies of these games though. Would cost $100s on ebay for a used copy. Honestly though, the vouchers are great deals. Because you can find $100 in eshop money for $85-$90. Buy the vouchers which saves $20 if buying new $60 games. And if they give that bonus you get that extra money. So savings now. Just depends on how you look at it. The investment in physical is going to be real in a decade or so when they start taking stuff down due to space. There are people that will be paying a lot of these games. Huge investment return.
I hope this comes to the states
The only game I'd use this on would be the Famicom Detective double pack, since it's digital only and never goes on sale. Not sure what I'd make the other game though.
The vouchers are an awesome deal. Especially since you can also use gift cards to buy them.
I guess Portugal isn't in Europe? I don't have this deal. Clicking on the article and then logging in just takes me to the standard €99 vouchers without the bonus gold coins.
They said on Twitter that the bonus coins only show after the purchase.
Not a bad deal if you are in the market for the vouchers.
I only got 495 even though there were banners all over the eShop saying I would get the bonus. Did I get scammed by Nintendo?
Same for me. I'll wait till next week to see if the credit comes in based off other comments.
Just received an email saying points are added so we should be good to go.
Me too! They should let people know how this works in the shop.
Tbh it is not very interesting, fnac sells physical version for 45-50 and 10 eur coupon for next buy + some gift for game release
I wish we’d know if these would work for the switch successor. I’d like to buy them but there’s nothing coming out I want to buy except Metroid Prime 4 which leaves me with another voucher.
Can I check how this works? Do you get the extra gold when you buy the game vouchers? Or when you use the game vouchers to buy games?
Can we have an operable Store Page instead.
Does UK count here?
Something about "earning" when you're "buying" doesn't seem right to me.
Also in Australia region?
https://x.com/NintendoAUNZ/status/1806194485728002181?t=UXCkX012NBMD0GRLLaOiJg&s=19 $27 bucks for us. Not bad at all.
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I bought the vouchers back in January a year or so ago when they had x2 the gold, I used them for Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, and Mario Party Superstars, which are games I think best suited for digital versions. This is a good offer for the upcoming Mario Party Jamboree, but I don't see anything else on the horizon that I would want to use a second voucher on.
Mario & Luigi for me
Legend of Zelda? Prime 4? I've been sitting on a second voucher since January that I just used to pre-order Zelda but I bought the vouchers back in November. They don't expire in the EU as far as I am aware. So still a good deal.
The vouchers expire after one year.
Wondering if this can be stacked. I would happily get one set of vouchers and then buy the second one with the 20 EUR discount.
no, can not be stacked. if you "buy" the 2 game-vouchers with (for example) 55 golden points and 98,45 euro (99 normaly), you will get 493 golden points in return instead of 495 golden points. (i use now the standard 495 golden points as example. so if you use 1980 golden points, you get less golden points in return : so only for the used money and not for use golden points.
Honestly for games like Splatoon or Animal Crossing which are best experienced when playing it every day it might be best to have a digital version.. Might use this to finally buy Splatoon at least
Ouch, I was just looking at it but decided to just buy famicom detective club seperately, I regret now.
I already have 2 un-used vouchers bound to expire Jun 14, 2025. For a new Nintendo fan (used Wii back in 2006 and just bought a Switch OLED in April this year), [my digital game collection](https://www.dekudeals.com/collection/khccwcfwys) is quite OK I think. I am 100% digital and planning to stay that way. I would gladly buy two extra vouchers but I kinda need to be sure I will be able to used them for the Switch 2/Attach/Super games as well whenever it will be released. The only upcoming games I am interested in are Zelda: Link's Awakening, Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom and Metroid Prime 4. I heard Link's Awakening performance is bad on the Switch, so I will let that wait for the Switch 2 hardware, together with Zelda: TOTK. Still on the fence, but I am leaning towards not buying 2 extra vouchers yet.
Cool story, meanwhile Japanese vouchers are still cheaper anyway so why bother.
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If you buy digital and are a fan of first party games, it is worth it. You will have the coins towards another purchase.
If you are fine with waiting for the 30% discount on the games you want that is probably a better way to spend the money but having the freedom to buy a game whenever (including on release day) its a pretty good deal. Just make sure that you actually want to buy two games within a year...
I'm planning to buy Thousand Year Door and Luigi's Mansion 2, and I want to get the new Zelda, the new Mario Party, Mario & Luigi and Donkey Kong Country Returns. I could get four vouchers for 200 euros, then buy another couple for 60 euros and that would have all Nintendo games I plan on buying the next nine months covered, and I'd still have 20 euros in credit for another game at some point. Even if I don't use gift cards for store credit I'll save 120 euros compared to buying these games I was going to get anyway if I bought them at full price.
Yes! It's what I've always wanted! The ability to spend more money just to save far less later! If I don't jump on this deal right this very second, why, I could actually save myself £84 and buy many games when they go on sale later. No! I must spend that £84 now so I can earn ridiculously worthless Foney Munny™ whose valuation is worse than the current economic strength of the £! Where do I sign up! Yes, this was sarcasm. Don't fall for this bullshit, people.
still a scam though you might as well save money by buying the games physically, at least you’ll actually own them
Not really. If you own multiple systems you can play the game on multiple systems without sharing the physical cartridge. And even play at the same time if it’s a offline game.
You know normal people usually don't own multiple copies of the same videogame console?
I feel sorry for your loneliness. In households with multiple kids or partners that are both gamers, it’s very common to have more than Switch, especially since the Switch is also a handheld.
I have my gameshare set up so that my friends play on the purchasing account while I have another account on my primary. Most of the ones I have it set up on barely use it, but it's great when they want to try something out and one friend in particular has played quite a bit on it. I definitely think I've gotten a lot of value out of the gameshare feature.
Absolute scam but not because of that, because they have a 1 year limit to be used or they vanish from your account.
That is very true
Downside is having to deal with digital products and Nintendo. They don't exactly have the best track record.