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With the latest update, Nintendo has added a new feature to their Nintendo Switch Online service, with a new section called Missions & Rewards. Completing certain tasks will reward players with My Nintendo platinum points, which can be redeemed for physical and digital rewards. Missions mainly consist of broad, simple tasks, like trying out games on the NES & SNES, playing a game with online play, or backing up save data. Platinum points can be redeemed for digital wallpapers and printable documents on the My Nintendo page, certain physical items on the My Nintendo store, or to get new exclusive user icons on the Nintendo Switch. Exclusively for NSO members, user icons can now be customized to an extent, with platinum points able to used to purchase different frames, characters and backgrounds to make a user icon. Each month will have a different theme, and specific elements will be swapped out every week.

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[Sonic Angel Knight]

Is almost like an achievement system that all other things have.

But can I use it to earn dlc or something?

 

[thekarter104]

This is nice, but it doesn't work already... I played Super Mario Bros. On NES app and it doesn't complete. I tried everything, letting the game open and then go to the Switch Online rewards icon, still not unlocked... So stupid..

Good idea, but it has to work.... And it doesn't. Cloud backup didn't work either.. That mission didn't complete either.. The other 2 were already completed when I got there.

 

[lordelan]

For a second I thought Nintendo realised it's 2022 and finally implemented achievements after reading the headline of this news.
But I was wrong. Nevermind.

 

[ZeroFX]

just implement the damn achievements, and do a makeover of hos, its almost the same since 1.0.0, even dsi had more functionality built in.

 

[The Catboy]

Nintendo finally made it to the mid2000s ;O;

 

[eyeliner]

Aren't achievements something that has to be implemented by the games, triggering after certain conditions?

Nintendo would have to, you know, talk to people and ask them to implement them and then make the system connect to the achievement api.

Are the physical rewards worthy of a damn?
Digital crap is crap.

 

[jt_1258]

more ways to get platinum coins...when there is barely anything good to spend them on. they better keep a good roll out with those profile icon options

 

[EmanueleBGN]

But can I use it to earn dlc or something?

No, Golden Points are money. Platinum Points are... useless (you can buy something on My Nintendo website)

 

[LeyendaV]

Nice, another feature to ignore completely and never use not even once.

 

[Hanafuda]

I miss Club Nintendo. Simple rules, real merch.

 

[MarkDarkness]

Nintendo has discovered achievements 15 years after the fact, and in an unfun, mediocre way. Great.

 

[Deleted member 532471]

Club Nintendo this is not. After hoarding platinum points since launch I can say they're useless, especially if you live outside the US.


Unless Nintendo is giving some games to exchange those points for I don't care

 

[rdurbin]

sounds like the rewards points you get on gamepass for playing gamepass games or completing achievements on them. The main difference is on gamepass you can actually get free games with the reward points (the equal of gold points on switch). unfortunately you cannot get free games with platinum points

 

[godreborn]

kinda wish Nintendo would implement a full blown achievement system. because it's lacking, my priority will be the ps5 and the series x over the switch, if a game is on all consoles. I'm not really an achievement person, but I only have like 6 trophies with my psn account and a gamerscore of like 70. that's what happens when you don't play games for two generations, I guess. I only like them since they seem to travel with you each generation even with systems that don't have bc.

 

[Issac]

I thought, like many before me, that this was achievements... Oh well, I can still say that I've developed more Nintendo (N64) achievements than Nintendo. XD

 

[LanHikariDS]

Is almost like an achievement system that all other things have.

But can I use it to earn dlc or something?

You used to be able to for WiiU games
That's how I got all the Pikmin 3 DLCs, and Metroid II on 3DS

 

[Teletron1]

This is nice, but it doesn't work already... I played Super Mario Bros. On NES app and it doesn't complete. I tried everything, letting the game open and then go to the Switch Online rewards icon, still not unlocked... So stupid..

Good idea, but it has to work.... And it doesn't. Cloud backup didn't work either.. That mission didn't complete either.. The other 2 were already completed when I got there.

Figures this is the reason why myself and I’m sure a ton of people got screwed out of the Mario pins because it wasn’t syncing and enabling the reward for it ,now this bs oh boy

 

[Bladexdsl]

Are the physical rewards worthy of a damn?

last time i checked you could get crappy stickers, color books and other useless crap. god knows what shit they have now. but i guarantee it's all worthless junk that costs thousands of points

 

[64bitmodels]

guys you're not giving nintendo enough credit. they finally stepped into 2005. next thing you know, they might give their home screen a music player.