- Nintendo has introduced new directives for the ESHOP Switch 2 in Asia
- The guidelines target several subjects, including play bundles, and how they can be sold, sensitive content restrictions, and more
- These new directives are not yet alive in the West
Nintendo has introduced new guidelines for the Nintendo Switch 2 eshop in Asia to apparently fight low quality games.
In May, the company updated the Nintendo Switch eShop to filter cheap and “soil” games, and now it has implemented other improvements by publishing new guidelines in Japan and some other Asian countries.
As IGN reports, the guidelines target several subjects, including game beams, and how they can be sold, sensitive content restrictions, prohibitions on inaccurate product descriptions, and when and how the information on products can be updated.
First, during the first year of release of a game, only a maximum of five play bundles can be distributed. The number can then increase for each year that the game is available, up to a maximum of eight different packages.
This new restriction seems to be a way to fight against the way publishers constantly push the bundles on the store to keep their games in eshop top paintings.
Nintendo also attacks the sensitive content on the platform, which includes “children’s sexualization, too sexual content, discrimination and hatred, exploitation of social problems, instruction of criminal activity and political declarations”. Inaccurate descriptions will now be prohibited.
“It is prohibited to provide inaccurate descriptions of the content of a product. It is prohibited to provide a description of the content of a product under development if it should not be implemented in the product,” said the directives.
Finally, publishers and developers will no longer be able to modify their game descriptions without good cause and it is now prohibited to modify information on the product page of a game after its online.
Developers will also have to contact Nintendo representatives if they intend to distribute an application “which does not include gaming elements”.
These new guidelines do not yet live in the West, but we soon expect something similar.
