Nintendo Store App Launches on iPhone With a Feature Fans Will Love

[MacRumors]

A new Nintendo Store app is now available on the iPhone and iPad, allowing you to browse games, review your play activity across select consoles, and more.

The app lets you browse Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Switch 2 consoles and accessories, physical and digital games, merchandise, and select other products, but it will direct you to Nintendo's web store if you wish to proceed with a purchase.

My Nintendo Store could already be accessed through a web browser on the iPhone and iPad, but now customers who prefer to use an app have such an option.

There is another feature that Nintendo fans will love. In the app, you can sign in to your Nintendo Account and review your Switch and Switch 2 play activity, as well as any Nintendo 3DS and Wii U play activity logged until February 2020.

Other features include the latest news about Nintendo games and events, the ability to receive push notifications when items on your wish list go on sale, and more.

The free Nintendo Store app is available now in the App Store in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, and many European countries. It is also available in Japan, where it replaces a similar My Nintendo app that was released in 2020.

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[Rachid Vàzquez]

So Nintendo uses a competitor’s store to publish its own store, which includes a web page to handle payments — in order to avoid Apple’s 30% cut — to charge purchases on their own store, where they themselves take a 30% cut from game developers. Did I get that right?

 

[infinitedreams]

I guess Nintendo didn’t get the memo that iOS 26 is out

 

[maerz001]

"With a Feature Fans Will Love"... I thought this would be playing Nintendo games on iOS.

 

[Plutonius]

"With a Feature Fans Will Love"... I thought this would be playing Nintendo games on iOS.

I was hoping it was Palworld for iOS but then remembered that Palworld isn't Nintendo .

 

[jicon]

Thanks but no thanks. I'll stick with Dekudeals to track sales, related games and metacritic scores with multiple store links.

 

[nexx27]

"With a Feature Fans Will Love"... I thought this would be playing Nintendo games on iOS.

Me too. I did not love..

 

[Jozone]

Whats the feature I will love? Telling me how many hours I've played? smh

 

[uacd]

So Nintendo uses a competitor’s store to publish its own store, which includes a web page to handle payments — in order to avoid Apple’s 30% cut — to charge purchases on their own store, where they themselves take a 30% cut from game developers. Did I get that right?

I can’t imagine if it was double taxed by Apple and Nintendo, these games are expensive as f already. Might as well buy a cartridge, can at least sell it as “rare find” in 20 years for same price or higher

 

[uacd]

Whats the feature I will love? Telling me how many hours I've played? smh

Companies think that these “achievements” make experience better, while most people just want a good plot and gameplay

 

[pavelbure]

So Nintendo uses a competitor’s store to publish its own store, which includes a web page to handle payments — in order to avoid Apple’s 30% cut — to charge purchases on their own store, where they themselves take a 30% cut from game developers. Did I get that right?

No you didn’t. On the PlayStation app I can make purchases without going to the web. From what I have seen is the 30% applies to purchases that you’ll then use on your phone, audiobooks, music, movies, games, etc.

 

[uacd]

"With a Feature Fans Will Love"... I thought this would be playing Nintendo games on iOS.

Wouldn’t love that at all. Each time I grab an iPhone and it’s ugly OLED display and launch any game I wanna throw up, every time I grab a Switch 2 it feels like I am holding a gaming masterpiece in my hands. Experience matters a lot, real controls too, build quality, cooling fan to keep temperatures at bay, real HDMI out to play on TV, and not this clicky clacky touchscreen nothing with a single USB-C port and lots of distracting notifications and such. A phone is a phone, a console is a console

 

[eclipse01]

So Nintendo uses a competitor’s store to publish its own store, which includes a web page to handle payments — in order to avoid Apple’s 30% cut — to charge purchases on their own store, where they themselves take a 30% cut from game developers. Did I get that right?

Well when you put it like that.....

 

[gamersevil]

My Nintendo Store could already be accessed through a web browser

Mine too!

 

[Osxguy]

Why are technology companies including Apple so out of touch with their customers.

 

[contacos]

Is this a sponsored article or copied from the Nintendo press release? The wording is so commercial.

 

[CapitalIdea]

I’m confused. This feature that I’m supposed to “love” lets me look at an activity log of games I played? What’s so special or even interesting about that?

 

[Octavius8]

So Nintendo uses a competitor’s store to publish its own store, which includes a web page to handle payments — in order to avoid Apple’s 30% cut — to charge purchases on their own store, where they themselves take a 30% cut from game developers. Did I get that right?

The point is?.
As long as it does not compete with Apple directly, the powers that be, allow it.
Regulations must be so Apple can allow us to buy at least ebooks for kindle from the app or Spotify and NOT double tax!, customers have the right to choose!

 

[Hajj.david]

I’m confused. This feature that I’m supposed to “love” lets me look at an activity log of games I played? What’s so special or even interesting about that?

yea ive always wanted to see the number of hours I played on a game...on the go?

 

[Poot Windbreaker]

I can't wait to not install this and never think about it again.

 

[GermanSuplex]

The point is?.

The point was to point out how convoluted the setup is with a little humor.

 

[PixelPanics]

So Nintendo uses a competitor’s store to publish its own store, which includes a web page to handle payments — in order to avoid Apple’s 30% cut — to charge purchases on their own store, where they themselves take a 30% cut from game developers. Did I get that right?

Nintendo doesn't sell iOS services, if you buy stuff from the Zara app does apple take a percentage?

 

[AppleTO]

So Nintendo uses a competitor’s store to publish its own store, which includes a web page to handle payments — in order to avoid Apple’s 30% cut

Nintendo's games don't run on iOS, so they're not avoiding anything. Walmart, Amazon, and McDonald's don't pay Apple 30% for their storefronts.

 

[delsoul]

Does Nintendo scam customers on this like they do on the switch 2? Charge Japanese consumers $349 for the system, but then charge the rest of the world $449. Then region lock the Japanese system so nobody else can buy it. Thanks, but no thanks. Nintendo has shown their greed and this store app is no different

 

[turbineseaplane]

Nintendo's games don't run on iOS, so they're not avoiding anything. Walmart, Amazon, and McDonald's don't pay Apple 30% for their storefronts.

Shouldn't they all be paying Apple a cut since they are using Apple IP and accessing "Apple customers"?

(Apple seems to think it "owns" us all just because we bought and use some of their products)