{"id":137137,"date":"2026-05-11T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-201021"},"modified":"2026-05-11T10:30:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T10:30:00","slug":"my-nintendo-store-is-changing-its-name-this-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2026\/05\/11\/my-nintendo-store-is-changing-its-name-this-month\/","title":{"rendered":"My Nintendo Store Is Changing Its Name This Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/d7c3dfcbad731\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/d7c3dfcbad731\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture\" data-uuid=\"d7c3dfcbad731\"><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"My Nintendo Store\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/d7c3dfcbad731\/my-nintendo-store.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/d7c3dfcbad731\/my-nintendo-store.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" alt=\"My Nintendo Store\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\"><span class><\/span> Image: Nintendo Life<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Nintendo has announced that the My Nintendo Store is getting a name change in a bunch of regions later this month \u2014 but fear not, it isn&#8217;t all that drastic.<\/p>\n<p>From <strong>27th May<\/strong>, the My Nintendo Store will officially be known as&#8230; <strong>Nintendo Store<\/strong>. Yes, the &#8216;My&#8217; is taking a hike.<\/p>\n<p>The name change announcement was made across a bunch of regional <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NintendoStoreUK\/status\/2053762041341505884\">Nintendo Store X accounts<\/a>, including the UK, German, Australian, Japanese, Spanish, and Korean socials. Each message affirms that &#8220;There will be no change to the service or products&#8221;, so don&#8217;t worry about missing out on any merch in the process.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s currently unclear whether the change will also apply to the North American storefront, but we&#8217;ll be keeping an eye out for the official word on that one. [<em>Update: Yep, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NintendoAmerica\/status\/2053822613106127117\">it&#8217;s changing too<\/a><\/em>].<\/p>\n<p>The change will bring everything in line with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/mobile\/nintendo_store\">Nintendo Store<\/a> app, which launched last year (and we all <em>totally<\/em> hadn&#8217;t forgotten about).<\/p>\n<p>So, relish in these last few days of &#8220;My&#8221; inclusion, people. Gosh, you don&#8217;t know what you&#8217;ve got until it&#8217;s gone.<\/p>\n<p><!-- cache: html:nintendolife.com\/ssl\/related-articles:193440 @ 1778512219 --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"block object-related\"> <\/aside>\n<p><em>What do you make of this name change? Let us know in the comments.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: Nintendo Life Nintendo has announced that the My Nintendo Store is getting a name change in a bunch of regions later this month \u2014 but fear not, it isn&#8217;t all that drastic. From 27th May, the My Nintendo Store will officially be known as&#8230; Nintendo Store. Yes, the &#8216;My&#8217; is taking a hike. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}