New Nintendo Switch Online profile icons this month feature N64 classics, including: SM64, LoZ MM, and Kirby 64!
#NintendoSwitchOnline + Expansion Pack members! Redeem #MyNintendo Platinum Points to get icons from:
✅#SuperMario 64
✅#Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards
✅The Legend of #Zelda: Majora's Mask
✅#N64 Hardware & ControllersIcon elements update weekly until 12/6. #MissionsAndRewards pic.twitter.com/dz4Mo3nPGm
— Nintendo of America (@NintendoAmerica) November 2, 2022
by KamikazeGhost
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Only downside is that there’s no backgrounds or borders for them
I was hoping that there would be SM64 Bowser…
I did notice that the Platinum Points missions for playing each featured N64 game reward 100 points per-game, and each game has only 10 icons that cost 10 points each… meaning that so long as one wants to boot up three games quickly, the N64 icons are essentially “free”
EDIT: This is of course assuming that they don’t update weekly. I’m PRETTY sure the SM64, K64, and MM ones had a thing saying they’d be there for the whole month, but the tweet there mentions “updating weekly”? I can no longer check since I already got all the currently-available ones…
Majoras Mask icon for life
Damn, wish you could mix and match icons and backgrounds from across collections. The King Bob Omb at Bubblaine dream is dead.
Maybe it’s just me, does anyone else find it stupid these icons…
* Are locked behind a Nintendo Switch Online Subscription.
* N64 ones are locked behind an *Expansion Pass Subscription*.
* Are locked behind an additional currency: Platinum Points.
* Platinum Points can only be earned via limited/weekly/monthly challenges via NSO App or their website.
* Platinum Points expire 6 months after you earn them.
* Are only available for a short period of time. Don’t have enough coins to get an icon you want. Forgot to get an icon. Too bad! You’ll have to hope for a rerun….if there is one.
Though I’m glad you can get more icons, I feel the combination of all three of those factors is a little dumb.
Edit: Cleaned up a few errors. Made text clearer.
Lame that I have to have the exp pack to be able to get these… I have all the n64 games I could want, I don’t need the exp pass…
Semi-related to this: Does anyone know which games on the eShop get double Gold points?
The tweet says “Earn DOUBLE #MyNintendo Gold Points on the purchase of digital games or DLC in Nintendo #eShop and My Nintendo Store.”, but the website it links says
“Double Gold Points on **Select Titles**Starting Nov. 1, active Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack members can earn double My Nintendo™ Gold Points** **on the purchase of eligible digital games or DLC** in Nintendo eShop and My Nintendo Store. That means members can earn 10% in Gold Points, which can then be used toward their next eligible purchase.”
[https://twitter.com/NintendoAmerica/status/1587542501363179520](https://twitter.com/NintendoAmerica/status/1587542501363179520)
In the tweet, someone was saying something about a banner saying 2X Gold, but I’m not seeing it on *any* games in the eShop.
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Edit: Nevermind, looks like that user was talking about NoE. NoA is doing it differently, for whatever reason.
**What purchases qualify to receive double Gold Points?**
Double My Nintendo Gold Points will be earned on purchases of first, second, and third party digital games or DLC in Nintendo eShop and My Nintendo Store made between 12:00 AM Eastern Time November 1, 2022 and 11:59 PM Pacific Time January 31, 2023 This includes software download codes redeemed in Nintendo eShop.
Purchases of in-game consumable items, memberships, subscriptions, and registering physical software do not qualify to receive the promotional My Nintendo Gold Points.
**When will I receive the promotional My Nintendo Gold Points?**
You will receive the normal amount of My Nintendo Gold Points at the time you make the purchase. **The promotional My Nintendo Gold Points will be distributed in February 2023.**
[https://en-americas-support.nintendo.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/60091/p/989/c/977](https://en-americas-support.nintendo.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/60091/p/989/c/977)
Not sure why they had to make it so needlessly complicated and confusing, especially when NoE’s promotion flat out says “any digital games” and they get their points within 24 hours. But hopefully that helps 🙂
Glad they are bringing back the old school 3d renders. They really have some charm on them
If my expansion pass expires will I lose these profile icons?
I love my majora icon but don’t want to keep the expansion pass.
Wait, isn’t the Mario 64 icon already being used? I believe it’s the same render, but just zoomed in lmao
MM icons hell yeah!
I was hyped for these, but after learning they’re behind the NSO Expansion pass, never mind.
Bro, do people actually care about these?
Wow profile icons. Finally a reason to buy a Switch.
Any new games coming out?
When they gonna do fire emblem bruh
I havnt used my switch in years. I cant wait to see what awesome ***THEMES*** they added over the years ive been in a coma!
OF COURSE you need to have access to the SHITTY Expansion Pack in order to get these pics and they’re STILL limited time offers. God Nintendo is such a fucking corporation.
Can we please get some Metroid Dread icons?
Daring today, aren’t we
i just upgraded my sub so i could get a stupid majoras mask icon on a platform that i dont really play online on. i might be part of the problem
Is Kirby 64 the same as Kirby Crystal Shards or are they two separate games for the same system?
Still no Pokémon profile icons. What a joke. It’s your biggest IP
Awesome! Now let me spend my money on an N64 controller Nintendo without going to a scalper! Do you not realize I want to give you money??
Gating icons behind their subscriptions is a pretty weak move
Fucking Icons
1.1k upvotes in 6 hours. Top of the subreddit.
I can’t mixmatch them with my Xenoblade 3 icons though.
Still waiting for Fire Emblem and Pokemon….
Who gives a shit
Pls we just want gameboy games on NSO
I’m still waiting to see what Pokemon Stadium will be like.
Still waiting on Fire emblem icons
Finally, the NSO expansion pass is worth it!
Those Majora’s Mask icons are probably the biggest incentive I have seen to make me want to get the expansion pack.
Can’t get them if you don’t have the expansion subscription. Fucking dumb.
Name something I could care less about
This is worth being excited over, basic af icons? We’re pathetic. The bar is so low and little that even something like this is noteworthy
You have to be an Expansion Pass Plus member not just the regular Nintendo Online membership.