New Nintendo Switch update ensures you’ll never forget to spend your reward points

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Nintendo has released a new Switch update, version 14.1.0, that adds notification alerts for platinum points, Nintendo’s currency for redeeming free digital rewards.  

While there’s no sign of the usual stability and performance improvements we’ve all come to expect from smaller patches, the new system update will download automatically as soon as you load up a Switch game. However, if you’d like to do this manually, head to  ‘system settings,’ then choose ‘system,’ and it’s the first option you’ll see. Once done, version 14.1.0 introduces a new menu in system settings under ‘notifications,’ titled “platinum point notification settings.” Specifically, this relates to Nintendo Switch Online missions, which arrived last February.

Similar to Xbox Rewards, Switch Online missions let subscribers complete challenges to earn My Nintendo platinum points, which can be exchanged for profile rewards. These missions rotate each month and could involve playing a particular game – right now, that’s SNES classic Super Metroid – going into an online lobby, backing up save data to the cloud, or just using the Switch Online console app. 

Subscribers can purchase character icons for their profile at 10 platinum points each, alongside backgrounds and frames for five coins apiece. April’s selection is currently based on two particular games: Splatoon 2 and Animal Crossing: New Horizons. The latter focuses on villagers who’ve got birthdays in April, but Splatoon’s redeemable player icons change every week, disappearing entirely on May 2.

#NintendoSwitchOnline members can now redeem their #MyNintendo Platinum Points to collect custom icons from #AnimalCrossing: New Horizons and #Splatoon 2, available until 5/1 at 6PM PT.Icon elements will be