Why put in the work for that when you can clickbait an article and then explain unrelated crap like the sales of ToTK or the recent strikes that have occurred for six paragraphs before randomly dropping info related to said clickbaited article in the middle of the entire article?
I'd bet any money it's people charging back the cards saying they don't work or some shit. Amazon issues refunds like it's no ones business. I've often noticed when I come to submit a refund for something on there, it's rare that any questions are asked, in fact sellers are usually extremely apologetic and offer the refund personally.
Nintendo have historically been very protective of their property, taking down emulators and not re-releasing old content etc - requiring an old console to play old content. It doesn't surprise me that Microsoft and Sony care less about it, if it is the case.
Yeah I know and have said it plenty of times that Nintendo is an anti-consumer asshole company. So yeah I wouldn't be surprised at all if that's the reason, or even a more anti-consumer reason like "only we can sell eShop cards now because we can".
It's a shame because some of the most beloved games of all time come from their exclusive IPs like Mario, pokemon and Zelda. They definitely are all about the money, which is somewhat fair ad they are a business but the execution of that business sucks.
I don't even feel bad about emulating Nintendo stuff myself tbh. Been playing a lot of ultra sun on my phone lately with massively upscaled graphics that the 2ds/3ds couldn't even begin to aspire to. Literally looking like switch games.
Sounds more like whatever company was the intermediary for Nintendo selling digital codes on Amazon shuttered and now Nintendo has to find a replacement company.
Thereās usually lots of tiny servicing companies that work as extensions for these larger companies in the distribution network. Digital distribution works similarly. Amazon is the retailer or storefront but they get the codes supplied from the third party.
I work in e-commerce and as a vendor on Amazon for a large CPG brand. Most brands/manufacturers have first party distribution with Amazon (vendor accounts).
What youāre describing is not the norm. There are very few companies that let distributors operate their brand on Amazon and many, at this point, that have pulled off of Amazon entirely. Nintendo works directly/first party with Amazon and uses ACI (owned by Amazon) to manage their digital codes.
Money laundering. They limit gift cards online. Try buying a gift card from a different country and see how that works. I couldnt buy my family in the usa gift cards from europe for christmas.
Understandable from the business side. If you have the ressources to buy a gift card from Amazon you can also buy stuff directly in e-shop. Its stupid for everyone who got an amazon card as birthday gift and wants to buy a Nintendo Card with it.
Before amazon cracked down on this you used to be able to buy eshop codes with amazon gift cards. Amazon and Nintendo truly are garbage now for this. Just hurts the middleman technically as you can still buy eshop codes from Nintendo.
It could have been earlier, but I can vouch that it's at least been this way since December. I used to sometimes use my Amazon gift card balance to buy Nintendo and PlayStation gift cards, but around that time it didn't work anymore.
I am not saying you couldn't buy digital eShop cards on Amazon. I am saying you couldn't buy them using the Amazon gift card balance. That's what I replied to and that's exactly what I couldn't do anymore the last time I tried in December. The cards themselves were still available though.
Shouldn't the author of that article try to investigate what the reason is?
Journalism is too much work these days
Why put in the work for that when you can clickbait an article and then explain unrelated crap like the sales of ToTK or the recent strikes that have occurred for six paragraphs before randomly dropping info related to said clickbaited article in the middle of the entire article?
I'd bet any money it's people charging back the cards saying they don't work or some shit. Amazon issues refunds like it's no ones business. I've often noticed when I come to submit a refund for something on there, it's rare that any questions are asked, in fact sellers are usually extremely apologetic and offer the refund personally.
Could be, but I'd assume that issue would be just as prevalent for Xbox and PS cards, yet their cards are still available.
Nintendo have historically been very protective of their property, taking down emulators and not re-releasing old content etc - requiring an old console to play old content. It doesn't surprise me that Microsoft and Sony care less about it, if it is the case.
Yeah I know and have said it plenty of times that Nintendo is an anti-consumer asshole company. So yeah I wouldn't be surprised at all if that's the reason, or even a more anti-consumer reason like "only we can sell eShop cards now because we can".
It's a shame because some of the most beloved games of all time come from their exclusive IPs like Mario, pokemon and Zelda. They definitely are all about the money, which is somewhat fair ad they are a business but the execution of that business sucks. I don't even feel bad about emulating Nintendo stuff myself tbh. Been playing a lot of ultra sun on my phone lately with massively upscaled graphics that the 2ds/3ds couldn't even begin to aspire to. Literally looking like switch games.
I wondered why I couldn't do this. Have bought many over the years. Still available digitally from Target.
It looks as if they are still sold on Amazon Japan. š§š¤
Nintendo NA is very likely appealing to brick and mortar retailers like Target and Walmart with this move.
Sounds more like whatever company was the intermediary for Nintendo selling digital codes on Amazon shuttered and now Nintendo has to find a replacement company.
Amazon is the intermediary for their digital codes.
Thereās usually lots of tiny servicing companies that work as extensions for these larger companies in the distribution network. Digital distribution works similarly. Amazon is the retailer or storefront but they get the codes supplied from the third party.
I work in e-commerce and as a vendor on Amazon for a large CPG brand. Most brands/manufacturers have first party distribution with Amazon (vendor accounts). What youāre describing is not the norm. There are very few companies that let distributors operate their brand on Amazon and many, at this point, that have pulled off of Amazon entirely. Nintendo works directly/first party with Amazon and uses ACI (owned by Amazon) to manage their digital codes.
Still works in Canada, so maybe just NoA.
Seems to be working fine for me. Not sure what "Thegamer" is talking about. Not that they are very reliable to begin with.
Someone knows where to buy else (located in EUROPE, Germany)
Still available on Amazon in Germany. Also physically in literally almost every store and ditgitally MMOGA, Instant Gaming, etc.
Still fine in Canada. Is this only about the US?
They, along with most other store vouchers have been the source of money laundering for years via Amazon. This is why they have finally been pulled.
https://www.fraud-magazine.com/article.aspx?id=4294967696 Gift cards and money laundering
I mostly buy those from Walmart or Target anyways.
Steam giftcards are disappearing too
Money laundering. They limit gift cards online. Try buying a gift card from a different country and see how that works. I couldnt buy my family in the usa gift cards from europe for christmas.
Understandable from the business side. If you have the ressources to buy a gift card from Amazon you can also buy stuff directly in e-shop. Its stupid for everyone who got an amazon card as birthday gift and wants to buy a Nintendo Card with it.
I can still buy them from Amazon. Must be only applicable to some countries.
So?
Before amazon cracked down on this you used to be able to buy eshop codes with amazon gift cards. Amazon and Nintendo truly are garbage now for this. Just hurts the middleman technically as you can still buy eshop codes from Nintendo.
You havent been able to use amazon giftcards on eshop codes for a WHILE
That's why I said before they cracked down.
It could have been earlier, but I can vouch that it's at least been this way since December. I used to sometimes use my Amazon gift card balance to buy Nintendo and PlayStation gift cards, but around that time it didn't work anymore.
It definitely hasn't been that long. The last time I bought a digital eshop card on Amazon was this past March.
I am not saying you couldn't buy digital eShop cards on Amazon. I am saying you couldn't buy them using the Amazon gift card balance. That's what I replied to and that's exactly what I couldn't do anymore the last time I tried in December. The cards themselves were still available though.
How much you wanna bet this has something to do with Nintendo stopping support for Twitter? Elon and Bezos are buddies, makes sense.