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title: "eShop tells how many My Nintendo Gold Points you get for a game"
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description: "Earlier we informed you that you can use your My Nintendo Gold Points for select Switch games. Well, it has been discovered that the Nintendo eShop has added a message that tells you how many Gold Points you will get for digitally purchasing a game."
author: "Patrick Dankers"
published at: "2018-03-10 12:00:02"
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eShop tells how many My Nintendo Gold Points you get for a game | General News | NintendoReporters

 [![eShop tells how many My Nintendo Gold Points you get for a game](https://www.nintendoreporters.com/storage/files/eshop-tells-how-many-my-nintendo-gold-points-you-get-for-a-game.jpg "eShop tells how many My Nintendo Gold Points you get for a game")](https://www.nintendoreporters.com/storage/files/eshop-tells-how-many-my-nintendo-gold-points-you-get-for-a-game.jpg)Earlier we informed you that you can use your My Nintendo Gold Points for select Switch games.

Well, it has been discovered that the Nintendo eShop has added a message that tells you how many Gold Points you will get for digitally purchasing a game. Now that is a nice addition really.

## [](#twitter-a-source-of-nintendo-intel)Twitter; a source of Nintendo intel

The discovery was posted on Twitter, so we’ve included the tweet for you down below.

> [\#NintendoSwitch](https://twitter.com/hashtag/NintendoSwitch?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) eShop now shows how many points you'll earn from buying a game and let's you buy games with points![@GoNintendoTweet](https://twitter.com/GoNintendoTweet?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) [@CartridgeGames](https://twitter.com/CartridgeGames?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) [@MyNintendoNews](https://twitter.com/MyNintendoNews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) [@realotakugamer](https://twitter.com/realotakugamer?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) [pic.twitter.com/AVf3YmJRFm](https://t.co/AVf3YmJRFm)
>
> — 【Xiphos Gaming】 (@Xiphos\_Gaming) [March 5, 2018](https://twitter.com/Xiphos_Gaming/status/970804344516956160?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

More often Twitter is becoming a good resource for Nintendo (Switch) information.
 In that regard; are there people you would advise following? Even for us?

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