My Nintendo just launched recently, and while many have signed up, there's still going to be that sub-set of gamers that won't bother with it until they know what's on offer, and what they can do to/how easy it is to earn points.
You've got both daily and weekly missions, alongside one-time bonus missions.
Daily missions ALONE earn you up to 35 Platinum coins per day, meaning you get 245 per week if you're consistent with doing the tasks once per day.
The daily missions generally consist of things like changing your Mii's clothes once per day, getting 5 likes for your answers per day, and other small, easy tasks.
You also get 60 Platinum coins per week if you sign in to Miiverse and the Eshop once per week.
So all totaled up, you can potentially earn 305 Platinum coins per week via sign-ins and Miitomo missions combined.
The one-time missions, which can earn you hundreds of Platinum coins, will likely be the reason behind the first 400 or so P-coins you earn, even before including the daily missions, will consist of things like linking your Google, Facebook, Twitter, and NNID accounts to either Miitomo or the My Nintendo account.
About 50 of your Platinum coins will go towards "Coin Boxes" on the service, a one-time purchase that creates three boxes on the front screen which hold all your coins of the various types.
Miitomo and regular Platinum coins all count towards your Platinum coin count, despite the small difference of a blue logo on the Miitomo P-coins and a separate box on the front of the site to hold them.
As expected, Gold Coins work just like the old Club Nintendo points did; purchasing games nets you gold coins in varying amounts depending on the price of the game.
The downside, is that now that there aren't any codes within the boxes of games to input anymore, the G-coins are awarded via digital purchases, so if you want to take advantage of the G-coins in the program until Nintendo adds in a way to benefit from physical purchases, you'll want to have extra/external storage space handy for E-shop purchases.
Amounts vary from 10 G-coins for a game valued between $5 and $9.99 at the lowest, all the way up to 80 G-coins for a $70+ game at the highest.
For example, a $10 to $19.99 valued game would net you 20 G-coins, and if you went the extra $1 to a $20 game, you'd get 30 G-coins.
Basically, the rewarded G-coin amount, starting at 10 G-coins for a $9.99 game, will go up by ten for every $10 mark you hit.
As for the rewards, in general, the majority of the games use G-coins, but there are a few games that you can receive a one-time discount of 15% off at the moment using PLATINUM coins, instead, which are by far the easier currency to earn.
The discounts for P-coins apply towards Wind Waker HD, Yoshi's Woolly World, TLOZ: A Link Between Worlds, AC: New Leaf, and Mario 3D Land.
There are 30% discounts for various games, too, but those generally cost gold coins as of this moment.
It's fairly easy to tell which kind of currency most rewards use, as the background of the reward will sometimes be either gold or silver colored as an indicator, but clicking on one will bring up a short screen showing the details of how much of which currency each reward requires.
As a side-note, Flip-note Studio 3D is currently available for FREE, so that's something you can nab if you're artistically inclined and don't have it yet.
As for my impression of it...
I'd say it's a solid, if slightly meh, start to the new system.
Some of the rewards will be tempting to people, some won't be.
There will definitely be better rewards down the line as Nintendo listens to what we want to see on the shop, but for now, the rewards page could be far worse.
Now, as to how it could improve...
In my opinion, the system could improve by widening the variety of missions within it to include interaction with Wii U and 3DS games.
Things such as connecting to the internet once per day, or week, and racing in 5 Mario Kart 8 matches for, say, 10 Platinum coins as a reward, or getting the highest amount of points, or a consecutive amount of victories, in Splatoon for 30 P-coins, would be a great incentive for players to get in and get active on many of Nintendo's games.
They could also present this as an opportunity to THIRD PARTIES.
For an easy example, the next upcoming Call of Duty on NX, could reward players with a certain amount of P-coins for every Prestige they manage to get to, if their CoD account is somehow linked to their NNID.
It would be an incentive for Nintendo gamers to buy, and frequently play, third party games that they might otherwise get for a different system.
And finally, they need to roll out a new feature sometime in the near future that will free NNID's and My Nintendo accounts from being tied to the consoles, so that people can switch to a new one if the old one breaks down.
It would be best if they did this before the NX rolls out, so that people have an easier time upgrading to it.
Overall, it's not a perfect system, but I've seen reward programs with far more issues than this seems to have, and far less potential.
As with many things, this will be a "wait and see" thing, but it's off to a promising start that, at the very least, doesn't smack of exploitation or unfairly huge coin costs for most of its offerings.
When the PS5 and the Xbox Series X/S first launched all the way back in 2020, console sales were not what either platform manufacturer wanted them to be. The pandemic slowed things down more than ever before, even though in the case of each next-gen console, all the units that were manufactured, sold.
Of course that didn’t last, and soon manufacturing limitations on the consoles were a thing of the past, and sales started to leap forward. For one next-gen console platform, at least.
I can see why Microsoft is putting their games on PlayStation with these numbers
Imagine how many copies of future games like Elder Scrolls VI, Blade, Indiana Jones and more they could sell if they went fully multiplatform.
while I see your point, i'm one of those people that dont really want to see a M$ logo, when I boot up, however good the game is, unless truly exceptional, I've got enough games from Sony and enough coming down the pipeline, plus the 2 free smaller games on ps+, why do I need to give Microsoft anymore money,
I usually play just GT7 and cod, you've got Gran Theft Auto coming, its over for microsoft, they shot themselves in the foot, and now have to hobble away, to the losers corner, sit there, and repent.,!!! hahaha
@Purple101 At this point, Microsoft just wants to be the American Tencent, but also just happen to have a console available for those who want it.
I hate what they're doing to the industry, but I would play the next Elder Scrolls on PS5 or PS6 even if I had to look at a MS logo at the beginning. At this point, I'm just invested in the series. I didn't feel this way about Starfield, which is why I've skipped it. Worst case scenario, I'd pick Elder Scrolls up on PC if it didn't come to PS, but I've stayed true to my word - I have not, and will not buy another Microsoft console after 3 red ringed 360s. They've killed my console support for life. They showed how scummy they can be by knowingly rushing out a product before it was ready, just to try and capture a 1 year headstart.
If a MS logo shows up at the beginning of the next Elder Scrolls on a Playstation console, so what? That means Sony won and MS is just another publisher. Many of the large publishers are quite dirty, so it fits them well. I wouldn't mind seeing their console die off though and them solely take up this publisher role.
Yeah, I never bought another Xbox console after the 360. But at the same time you shouldn't find yourself captive to Elder Scrolls if the company behind it is very scummy. I dropped COD after Ghosts and I don't regret it the company has only become worse and I'm glad I never was part of funding that.
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Sony would probably be selling more if they stopped sending mixed signals about their future. Putting games on PC because you are taking data analytic advice from Microsoft about the future of consoles is folly and has limited their potential sales. Microsoft want Sony and the world to believe that consoles are done as a business so companies like Sony and Nintendo etc can end up serving Microsoft's platform. Remember when it comes to Microsoft "It is us or no one and the three E's" Don't fall for it.
Sucker Punch’s massive samurai adventure Ghost of Tsushima has come under fire because of the PSN requirement. However, unlike Helldivers 2, things are a lot different and more logical this time.
"Sony has made it clear long before its release that the PSN requirement is strictly for the online multi-player Legends mode in Ghost of Tsushima and the PlayStation overlay. Online connection or PSN is not applied to the single-player campaign, which is honestly what the game is all about."
Legends clearly was based around using the pan they hardly want to have to design a whole new account structure just to play it, that's alot of effort and work. Ultimately people kicked up a fuss despite there being workarounds in most of those territories that people with a ps console have used over there for literally like 15/16 years. This is the consequence of that, be careful what you wish for or demand because you don't necessarily get to pick the method by which you get it.
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You know, I never did keep up with Nintendo's rewards system following the collapse of Club Nintendo. This was pretty informative. Sounds like there's a lot to be earned on a weekly basis. I also just perused My Nintendo and saw that you can get a pretty good discount on games like Majora's Mask 3D for just 100 G-coins. Definitely sounds like a promising rewards system.
One reason why everyone cares about your review of My Nintendo...
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Yeah, we got nothing.
*goes back to playing his crappy Wii U games*
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