Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has told investors that the company will eventually embrace a universal account system sometime in the future. Judging by what Iwata says it sounds like a dedicated account system tied to your digital download purchases won’t be coming anytime soon, but it’s certainly on the cards.
“This is the first step of our efforts to transform customer relationship management from device-based to account-based, namely, consumer-based, through which we aim to establish long-term relationships with individual consumers, unaffected by the lifespans of our systems. Our future platform will connect with our consumers based on accounts, not devices.”
There’s a much larger paragraph and picture that goes long with this. Without it, this is out of context. Picture includes 3DS and Wii U. http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/en/library/events/140130/03.html
Thanks for posting that. Just catching up on things we may have missed.
No problem! glad I could be of some help.
Endgadget reported on some kind of streaming service, but only mentioned it, as well as letting other studios make their games (I assume for production speed, and thus increasing the amount of games produced by Nintendo)
Thanks for the link. Looks like Nintendo’s going to sail into unknown territory. Sounds risky, but that’s probably what they’ll have to do in this day and age to survive.
I have no idea why Nintendo hasnt already implemented this
an account system is pretty easy, ofc with the proper security
You and every other person on the planet… Why is this taking so long?
This would fix a LOT of peoples aggrevations with their download system – needs to happen SOONER than ‘when we want’ though.
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Nintendos ord er lov, de som ikke følger dem, er solgt.
for god sake, english please
Why? Isn’t norwegian good enough for you? :\
Please speak american, thank you.
Æsj, nei, det er som å trekke opp et troll i eske.
ok please dont be racist against americans
ok.
Thank you.
….not sure if you are a troll or wrong.
Firstly the language is not “American.” It’s English.
Secondly, American is not a race by any means. It’s where you are from and speaking a different language does not make him hate America.
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I think Nintendo should embrace defeat
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Whatever it is, I just want to play great games…
Embrace online multiplayer too and everything will be fine…
Så sant.
By then, Half Life 3 will be released.
Sorry Nintendo.
“by the next platform”
What we have to wait until a next generation nintendo platform comes out to get a real unified account system ? Well that fuckin sucks .. Absolutely nothing has changed with this investor meeting .. What a joke
Nintendo has already created a unified account system with Nintendo Network. Sooner or later we’re gonna be able to connect our IDs with apps on smart devices, and Nintendo probably already have some plans to make the system even more involving.
I know, they know full well that we wanted this yesterday.
No? The reason for saying that is so it well best be used by the next system. Yes they well have it for current systems. But the idea well best be used when you buy their next system and can download all your old games back onto the new system.
Still behind the curve by a long shot, Nintendo. Great foresight.
Isn’t “never” part of “the future?”
I really hope Nintendo means sooner than later…
just think how long we were told about the flipnote for 3ds and yet we still don’t have it unless your in Japan.
that should have happened with the wii launch, and continued to 3ds and wiiu. fucking dumbasses.
Then I’ll buy more games online. When I can keep them forever. Great. Hope it won’t take forever to get this.
So we will eventually own our VC games on every system but it will still take them years to get every game available on each system
Actually VC is a emulating software built into the OS, when you pick a VC game it plays it through the emulator. So in reality all they have to do is make some HD adjustments and perhaps fix some performance issues. In reality it only would take about a week or so to port any GB, GBC, GBA, DS, NES, or SNES game. (maybe longer for DS. Any thing from n64 to gamecube would take maybe a month (depending on the game) and by the next system they could port original Wii games. But because the emulator dues all the work the games only need a little adjusting to work on the system. Their just slow at it because it builds hype to buy those games
I personally think this could have been done sooner than “in the future”. Is it really that hard? Unless they’re going for something with more than just a universal accounts.
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Nintendo, implementing yesterday’s standards, tomorrow.