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

[JMalone]

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 app isn’t really a store. If you try to buy anything it opens a web browser which you have to log in to again.

So this is just like the Xbox app except that it bounces you out to a web browser.

The app isn’t great anyway. It’s pointless.

 

[Remy149]

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 don’t even understand why they can’t allow the purchase directly in the app PlayStation does. These transactions don’t impose a cut to Apple because it’s for software you can’t access on apple’s platform

 

[Remy149]

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

The Japanese version that is region locked is subsidized directly through a deal with the local government

 

[AppleTO]

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)

It's kind of nuts when you think about it. Those companies I mentioned can make millions though their apps (through their own checkout) and they pay Apple $0 for their App (well, $99 a year per dev account). But sell any sort of digital asset, and you're paying heavily.

 

[turbineseaplane]

It's kind of nuts when you think about it. Those apps I mentioned can make millions though their apps (though their own checkout) and they pay Apple $0. But sell any sort of digital asset, and you're paying heavily.

It's INCREDIBLY nuts and integral to why I don't understand the support of Apple around all this.

If one thinks they should be "compensated for their IP" (beyond the annual fee they already charge all Devs), what is the rationale for not charging everyone the same way (or at all!)?

Apple's App Store is full of illogical, unfair, discretionary and capricious policies..

It's so beyond time for change here, and if Apple hadn't literally stumbled into a massive cash-flow firehose from this it would be totally different at this point.

 

[JMalone]

I don’t even understand why they can’t allow the purchase directly in the app PlayStation does. These transactions don’t impose a cut to Apple because it’s for software you can’t access on apple’s platform

It redirects to an external web browser if you want to purchase an app. So yes you can but the app is basically a useless web app that exists for no reason.

They should release a YouTube and Netflix app for the Switch 2. That’s what Switch 2 owners are asking for and not getting. There are no video players at all.

 

[trip1ex]

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?

And? They take all the risk getting the hardware out every generation. They help promote various 3rd parties. And most of the games purchased for a NIntendo platform are made by Nintendo themselves.

 

[Naraxus]

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

Correction: Apple feels it's wholey within their rights to charge app makers for compensation in exchange for using the tools to make their apps, access to the safest most reliable mobile platform out there and nearly 2 billion repeat customers who see those apps front & center every day.

 

[Astuces iOS]

Are people still buying nintendo ?

 

[decimortis]

Wouldn’t love that at all... [absolute frothing] ...A phone is a phone, a console is a console.

Calm down, ma'am. You're gonna give yourself an aneurysm over an internet comment.

 

[turbineseaplane]

Are people still buying nintendo ?

From yesterday:

Key Facts​

• Nintendo said in an earnings report Tuesday the Switch 2 has sold 10.36 million units over the four months since its June 5 launch, and it raised its sales expectations through March 2026 to 19 million units, up from its previous expectation of 15 million.
• The Switch 2 is selling twice as fast as the original Nintendo Switch, which sold 4.7 million units in its first four months after its release in March 2017.

Link

 

[Iconoclysm]

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?

Xbox and PlayStation have had the same type of apps for well over a decade.

 

[Iconoclysm]

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

You do know a scam is when you trick someone, not just sell something at a higher price, right? The app store is no different from their competitors' apps and it's hardly greed to sell something cheaper ANYWHERE.

 

[Iconoclysm]

Are people still buying nintendo ?

They're 10,000 sales away from breaking the record for the best selling console of all time with the Switch, while the Switch 2 is selling even faster than it did.

 

[Iconoclysm]

It's INCREDIBLY nuts and integral to why I don't understand the support of Apple around all this.

If one thinks they should be "compensated for their IP" (beyond the annual fee they already charge all Devs), what is the rationale for not charging everyone the same way (or at all!)?

Apple's App Store is full of illogical, unfair, discretionary and capricious policies..

It's so beyond time for change here, and if Apple hadn't literally stumbled into a massive cash-flow firehose from this it would be totally different at this point.

The fee Apple charges devs is virtually nothing.

You'd have a leg to stand on with the app store if every single first party app and games store on the planet didn't work the same way...

 

[Iconoclysm]

It redirects to an external web browser if you want to purchase an app. So yes you can but the app is basically a useless web app that exists for no reason.

They should release a YouTube and Netflix app for the Switch 2. That’s what Switch 2 owners are asking for and not getting. There are no video players at all.

I don't know who is asking for a youtube and netflix app but it's youtube and netflix that would need to build it.

 

[turbineseaplane]

The fee Apple charges devs is virtually nothing.

You'd have a leg to stand on with the app store if every single first party app and games store on the planet didn't work the same way...

Apple sets the Dev fee. They can change it.

I'm very much on record of supporting App stores doing whatever they want, as long as there are alternatives.

I'm pro competition.

I don't think what happens in Console world is ok either, but the device type is different and there have been disc based (or code reseller) based alternatives that have helped, but I'd fully support those being required to be more open as well.

The regulators going after smartphones is very specifically about the role those devices play in society for people. Game consoles are not equivalent.

 

[Astuces iOS]

They're 10,000 sales away from breaking the record for the best selling console of all time with the Switch, while the Switch 2 is selling even faster than it did.

Damn, probably new kids cause many switch 1 owners are old now... and not interested in games

 

[lapstags]

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?

Isn't this what Apple and Epic Games have been beefing over?

 

[lapstags]

Damn, probably new kids cause many switch 1 owners are old now... and not interested in games

I'm older now and I still game. But not on Nintendo games.

 

[turbineseaplane]

I'd still be into Nintendo if they'd make a pure home based system. The devices and screens are all too small for me now and, yes, I suppose I could get a Switch and just use it docked ... but I'd honestly rather see a "made for home" device and something designed (and powered) with that in mind.

 

[CapitalIdea]

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

In other news, American corn costs less in Iowa than it does in France.

 

[Gengar]

It’s a much better interface than the eShop on Nintendo Switch and Switch 2.

 

[Gengar]

I'd still be into Nintendo if they'd make a pure home based system. The devices and screens are all too small for me now and, yes, I suppose I could get a Switch and just use it docked ... but I'd honestly rather see a "made for home" device and something designed (and powered) with that in mind.

They had the Wii U but it flopped spectacularly. And the Switch 2 is their most powerful console yet, so I don’t think it makes sense for them to have a dedicated TV-only console.

 

[Dysnomia]

They're 10,000 sales away from breaking the record for the best selling console of all time with the Switch, while the Switch 2 is selling even faster than it did.

Best selling NINTENDO platform. It will not reach the PS2's 150+ million.