{"id":54664,"date":"2025-07-10T17:28:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T17:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/54664\/"},"modified":"2025-07-10T17:28:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T17:28:08","slug":"nintendo-is-ending-its-cost-saving-switch-game-vouchers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/54664\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo is ending its cost-saving Switch game vouchers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Nintendo is <a href=\"https:\/\/go.skimresources.com\/?id=1025X1701640&amp;xs=1&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nintendo.com%2Fen-gb%2FSupport%2FNintendo-Switch%2FNintendo-Switch-Game-Vouchers-FAQ-1560656.html\" rel=\"sponsored noopener\" target=\"_blank\">discontinuing vouchers<\/a> for Switch games. The program, which lets Switch Online members save money on digital games, will come to an end on January 30th, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Though players will no longer be able to purchase vouchers after this date, vouchers will still expire one year after they\u2019re purchased. Nintendo <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/deals\/2019\/5\/16\/18627669\/nintendo-switch-online-game-vouchers-deal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">first introduced Switch game vouchers<\/a> in 2019, allowing Switch Online members to purchase a pair of vouchers for $99.98 and redeem them for two eligible games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Since many of the games on <a href=\"https:\/\/go.skimresources.com\/?id=1025X1701640&amp;xs=1&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nintendo.com%2Fus%2Fstore%2Fgames%2Fgame-voucher-eligible%2F%23sort%3Ddf%26p%3D0\" rel=\"sponsored noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nintendo\u2019s voucher eligibility list<\/a> \u2014 like Super Mario Party Jamboree, The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom, and Mario &amp; Luigi Brothership \u2014 cost $59.99, players can use their vouchers to save about $10 on each game. Nintendo <a href=\"https:\/\/en-americas-support.nintendo.com\/app\/answers\/detail\/a_id\/45255\/kw\/voucher#s1q1:~:text=the%20Nintendo%20website.-,Nintendo%20Switch%20Game%20Vouchers%20cannot%20be%20redeemed%20for%20games%20exclusive%20to%20the%20Nintendo%20Switch%C2%A02%20system.,-How%20to%20check\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">says players<\/a> can\u2019t use vouchers to purchase Switch 2 exclusives, but users can still get around this by using them to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/679468\/nintendo-switch-2-game-updates-more-titles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">buy first-gen games enhanced<\/a> for the Switch 2 at a discount, and then paying for the Switch 2 upgrade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Nintendo says it will continue to add games to its list of eligible titles until next year. It\u2019s not clear whether Nintendo plans on implementing another kind of cost-saving method that would come in handy for pricier Switch 2 games, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/634632\/mario-kart-nintendo-switch-2-trailer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">like the $79.99 Mario Kart World<\/a>. Nintendo also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/614210\/auto-draft\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ended its My Nintendo Gold Points loyalty program<\/a> in March, which means players can no longer earn points from buying games and use them to get discounts on digital purchases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nintendo is discontinuing vouchers for Switch games. The program, which lets Switch Online members save money on digital&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":54665,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[171,393,50,394,158,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-54664","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-gaming","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-nintendo","12":"tag-technology","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}