- Nintendo has introduced new guidelines for Switch 2 eShop in Asia
- The guidelines point to several themes, including games packages, and how they can be sold, confidential content restrictions and more
- These new guidelines are not yet alive in the West
Nintendo has introduced new guidelines for Nintendo Switch 2 eShop in Asia to combat low quality games.
In May, the company updated the Nintendo Switch Eshop to filter cheap games and “Slop”, and has now implemented additional improvements by publishing new guidelines in Japan and some other Asian countries.
As Ign reports, guidelines are aimed at several topics, including games packages and how they can be sold, confidential content restrictions, prohibitions of inaccurate products descriptions and when and how the product information can be updated.
First, in the first year of the launch of a game, you can only distribute a maximum of five game packages. The number can increase for each year the game is available, up to a maximum of eight different packages.
This new restriction seems to be a way to combat how editors will constantly push packages in the store to keep their games on ESHOP lists.
Nintendo is also addressing sensitive content on the platform, which includes “sexualization of children, too sexual content, discrimination and hate, exploitation of social problems, instructions for criminal activities and political statements.” Inaccurate descriptions will now be prohibited.
“It is forbidden to provide inaccurate descriptions of the content of a product. It is forbidden to provide a description of the content of a product as in development if they are not expected to be implemented in the product,” the guidelines are read.
Finally, the editors and developers can no longer alter their game descriptions without a good cause and now they are forbidden to change the information on the product page of a game after it is gone.
Developers must also contact Nintendo representatives if they intend to distribute an application “that does not include elements of the game.”
These new guidelines are not yet living in the West, but we expect something similar soon.
