While browsing the My Nintendo rewards section this morning, I stumbled across a "My Nintendo Store" section. This quite frankly puzzled me, I'd never heard about the store getting launched and as it turns out, I wasnt exactly wrong, in my country it hadn't.
The rewards that were available in this section were 1, 3 and 5 Euro "My Nintendo Store Vouchers". Costing 100, 300 and 500 Gold Points respectively. But where exactly do I even redeem this? Well according to the description "for use on the European My Nintendo Store." Okay cool, so is there an english language version of the My Nintendo Store? The answer is surprisingly no, here's the list of stores these vouchers are available in:
My Nintendo Store - Austria (German)My Nintendo Store - Belgium (French)My Nintendo Store - Belgium (Dutch)My Nintendo Store - France (French)My Nintendo Store - Germany (German)My Nintendo Store - Italy (Italian)My Nintendo Store - The Netherlands (Dutch)My Nintendo Store - Portugal (Portuguese)My Nintendo Store - Spain (Spanish)
However, the countries these ship to and consequently where these vouchers are available on My Nintendo in are:
Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Germany, Denmark, Estonia, Spain, Finland, France, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Latvia, Malta, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sweden, Switzerland, Slovenia, Slovakia
Highlighted in Bold are all the countries which do not have a store in any of their spoken languages, and highlighted in Italics are the countries which a common second language has a store (however most of these countries' population would not have a majority proportion profficient in these languages).
To me this is just downright bizzare. Out of 29 countries, 13 countries are being sold these vouchers which are not redeemable in any store with a language understandable to them. 8 of these countries would have a sizable amount of their populations in the same boat as well.
I believe this could be a trick by Nintendo of Europe to get around a lot of the pressure they were getting from the EU, similar to the "Game Vouchers" they launched last year, but quite frankly I do not know. I also do not understand why they cannot make a general European store for My Nintendo that can cater to each and every language they provide service to, I don't think it'd be too much out of the question. What do you think?
Edit: These are the stores used to buy the NES and SNES Joycons, as well as a myriad of other exclusive products like Mario-red joycons and brand phone cases for Splatoon and Animal Crossing.
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