What was laid out in the article is that you get 5% of the purchase price back. That's all I was ever "yelling at you" about, because your post was confusing others into thinking they would be getting less than 1% cash back for digital purchases.
The actual points are meaningless. They never mattered. We've been using 100 points = $1 because that's how what the current system would be, and since Nintendo hasn't announced that there will be any changes to that system, it makes sense to continue using that baseline until it possibly changes.
All they announced is that we'll get 5% cash back. That's all the matters. You posted misinformation that confused people. Then doubled down on it and feigned ignorance. The information is literally right there in the news release.
For your information, I went back to my original post and hid it with an addition of an explanation to help further prevent people from misreading the point of the post. Nothing there was intentionally misleading information, but I'm sorry that people gleamed the wrong impression from it.
That said, you've been telling me for many posts that 100 points = $1 like it's a fact that was announced and that I'm too stupid to understand that 5% means 100 points = $1 when nothing of the sort was ever mentioned in the announcement. By that logic, the new system would've currently netted us 6000 gold points for a $60 game, but we'll get 300 instead.
In fact, the linked NOJ article above actually lays out actual detailed information on this stuff in a way that NOA and NOE are too vague about, so now I'm annoyed that they couldn't do the same thing. It sounds like they're essentially bringing back the old Deluxe Premium loyalty stuff they did with the Wii U, where you got a prorated amount of points based on how much you spent on each game for that one platform (10% on Wii U versus 5% on Switch), but it might be more limited if you have to use it on specific Switch games or DLC. Maybe they'll allow purchase of eShop credit codes like the Wii U program.
There is an interesting in the NOJ announcement (let me know if I'm misreading things here):
NOJ Announcement translated by Google Chrome auto-translation, so excuse any translation errors, please
Where can I use it?
It can be used for shopping at Nintendo Switch 's Nintendo e - shop or on the Nintendo website .
Please note that it can not be used at my Nintendo store or Nintendo part sale!
So we cannot use these new gold points on the My Nintendo site (or the NIntendo accessory/console store if I'm guessing the meaning of that last part)? That's a big change.
