The NOA President also talked about Virtual Console, why they revealed Metroid Prime 4, and compared Zelda and Mario Kart 8 in digital sales.
Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aime didn't dismiss the idea of bringing physical rewards to MyNintendo in North America, but he said there are challenges to that happening. "I've got to create solutions that are going to work for Canada, that are going to work for Latin America," he shared during an interview with IGN, "Could I envision unique physical goods as part of the program? Sure. But it really needs to work for all of our consumers, not just the consumers in the United States."
Still, he said that Nintendo of America takes it "as a priority to make My Nintendo much more meaningful moving forward."
As for the open question of Nintendo's Virtual Console of legacy games appearing for purchase on the Nintendo Switch, Reggie said Nintendo was still trying to figure things out. "What we're working through is, 'okay, what's going to be the best way to make that happen, to make that available?'"
Asked about how digital sales compared to physical on the Nintendo Switch, Reggie revealed how The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild sold well digitally, when taken as a percentage of sales Mario Kart 8 deluxe had more digital presence. "Truly every game is different" he said, later explaining that "The nature of Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is something that you always want to have on the device."
IGN also asked Fils-Aime about the Metroid Prime 4 reveal considering it seemed so early in development and Nintendo as-of-late had focused heavily on featuring games that were much closer to release.
"You know, for us, we believe that having hands-on opportunity married to an announcement is really the best way to do it," admitted Fil-Aime. However, he continued that "for certain games, games that will be in development for, let’s call it a decent amount of time, like Metroid Prime 4 -- also, given that it’s a franchise that we know people have been very eager to get some news -- that’s when, fine, we’ll share it. We’ll share it early."
The last time I logged in to MyNintendo was probably when we were asked to reserve our usernames for Switch (lol). The service has been nothing but an absolute failure but this is now pretty much expected from a company that refuses to price drop their games.
I loved the physical rewards, but I realize how difficult it is for Nintendo to have them.I liked them too, but at this point, I'd be happy if they go back to offering digital games (or even eShop credit like the Digital Deluxe program).
It is not hard for one person to sell one thing to one other person.
It is hard to maintain an inventory for three countries of items that are potentially obscure.
You guys are missing the point. It's not hard to ship stuff anywhere on earth. It's very hard to do it for 0 dollars. That is what stupid discount codes for and mobile wallpapers cost.Supply is the main issue with Nintendo. Still if they won't do physical rewards than they need to step up on the digital rewards.
It is not hard for one person to sell one thing to one other person.
It is hard to maintain an inventory for three countries of items that are potentially obscure.
Not really because there are power sellers on amazon and ebay who do it just fine every day selling things to hundreds of users. I recently watched the seniors in my college present their demo products and one was pretty much a straight inventory management solution. Would allow one or two people to handle all of the requests, and the ordering system could easily track how much inventory they have. Plus with a caveat like "takes 3-6 weeks to ship" it would give them plenty of leeway if they experienced a backlog of requests.
This is bonus material, so they can easily get away with small and limited runs of goodies.Do you know how easily I can dig up a talkback thread from this very forum of people getting upset over club nintendo prizes being in limited supply?
