- Nintendo has introduced new guidelines for Switch 2 Eshop in Asia
- The guidelines are targeted at several items, including gaming bundles, and how they can be sold, sensitive content restrictions and more
- These new guidelines are not yet live in the West
Nintendo has introduced new guidelines for Nintendo Switch 2 Eshop in Asia for the apparent match of low quality.
Back in May, the company updated the Nintendo Switch Eshop to filter cheap games and “slop”, and now it has implemented further improvements by releasing new guidelines in Japan and some other Asian countries.
As IGN reports, the guidelines target several topics, including gaming bundles, and how they can be sold, sensitive content restrictions, prohibition on inaccurate product descriptions, and when and how product information can be updated.
First, in the first year of a game’s release, only a maximum of five game bundles can be distributed. The number can then increase for each year the game is available, up to a maximum of eight different bundles.
This new limitation seems to be a way to fight how publishers will constantly push bundles on the store to keep their games in the ESHOP charts.
Nintendo also tackle sensitive content on the platform that includes “sexualization of children, overly sexual content, discrimination and hatred, exploitation of social issues, instruction of criminal activity and political statements”. 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 as under development if it is not expected to be implemented in the product,” the guidelines read.
Finally, publishers and developers will no longer be able to change their game descriptions for no good reason and are now prohibited from changing information on a gaming product page after it has gone live.
Developers will also need to contact Nintendo representatives if they intend to distribute an application “that does not include gaming elements.”
These new guidelines are not yet living in the West, but we will soon expect something similar.
