We finally got an account system with the Nintendo Switch family of systems, Nintendo Account, which ties all your digital Switch purchases to your account. Something that both Sony’s PlayStation and Microsoft’s Xbox have had for years. Inverse managed to catch up with Nintendo of Americas president Doug Bowser to talk about a range of topics. One thing of note is how Nintendo plans to handle smooth transition between the Nintendo Switch and its successor. Now that’s where Nintendo Accounts will come in.
As we have discussed, the Switch has had a long lifespan and a huge install base. How — when you consider the idea of a successor to the Switch — do you think about helping those people who are on the console transfer to the next platform while reassuring them that the content and investment in the Switch will somehow transfer to its successor?
Doug Bowser: Well, first I can’t comment — or I won’t comment, I should say — on the rumors that are out there. But one thing we’ve done with the Switch to help with that communication and transition is the formation of the Nintendo Account. In the past, every device we transitioned to had a whole new account system. Creating the Nintendo Account will allow us to communicate with our players if and when we make a transition to a new platform, to help ease that process or transition.
Our goal is to minimize the dip you typically see in the last year of one cycle and the beginning of another. I can’t speak to the possible features of a new platform, but the Nintendo Account is a strong basis for having that communication as we make the transition.
Yeah, I have small thoughts about it before. I think this is a good special opportunity to see how well it fits on the table.
It’s a simple process if it’s anything like doing it on PSN, i’ve had the same account since the PS3 era. Just put in your information from the Switch into the Switch successor and sign in it’s that simple, and all your digital content is linked to your account.
I knew this years ago
This is Nintendo we’re talking about.
I’m just completely expecting them to handle the bc and account handovers appallingly.
I dont trust in backward compatibility until i see it :(
Total BS. The Wii U and 3DS had Nintendo accounts. Nintendo didn’t allow any digital transfers from them to Switch.
No, they didn’t. They had Nintendo Network IDs.
Like I said before, if they actually cut people off from their digital Switch library with the successor to Switch people will never trust them again.
There have been countless reasons for people not to trust Nintendo, or any other company. They won’t riot just because they stop supporting an already out-of-date system. They can’t drag the switch (or any other console in the future) for the rest of time.
Nintendo’s online system is, for me, the one I like the least not for its stability but for what they do with it, subscribing to the switch online to be able to play old generation games, I found it exaggerated, especially since I don’t play much online and knowing that I had bought a lot of them on wii /wii u as well as 3DS… I hope they will change that for the next one but I am dreaming in my opinion… Or you might as well do the gamepass system…
Unlike Xbox games Nintendo newly released 1st party games actually sells a ton of units. Can’t really see Nintendo doing gamepass-like subscription unless the masses suddenly stop buying Nintendo games.
My personal idea, of maybe Nintendo future console(s) options.
A console that screen folds in half
RGB LED Light
Micro SDUC standard – over 2TB-128TB SDUC memory card, using exFAT file system
Wireless HDMI/DisplayPort
DisplayPort
IPV6
WiFi 6 (802.11 ax)
Wireless Battery Charger
Screen Display Projector
Solar Panel Hybrid/BatteryCharger
Screen Light electric charger “Charge battery with screen light”
Solar/Hybride Battery
100% wireless wire/cable
GameCard Amiibo style. To play a game, “No need to insert GameCard in a console, you just place it near the console”
Waterproof console
Microphone(s)
Face recognition
Voice recognition
Sound recognition
Hand Clap recognition
Sound with mouth recognition
RGB LED Light, like on gamer Keyboard/Mouse, …
And it will also work as a handheld massager.
Is this a joke?
“GameCard Amiibo style. To play a game, “No need to insert GameCard in a console, you just place it near the console””
Your list already read like a child’s Christmas list, but come on. Amiibos work because the amount of data they actually hold is in the kilobytes. The only way your idea could work is if the game isn’t stored on the gamecard and the gamecard just functions as a token which gives permission for you to download and play the digital version.
This is a horrible, horrible idea and completely defeats the purpose of physical releases.
I fail to see what’s comical about potentially loosing access to your digital library, anyone knows when you purchase digital content you own the wrights to it but you don’t actually own it. If they decided to cut the fanbase off from their digital content then no one can do anything about it. When you purchase digital content they have a disclaimer in the description that explains everything. That’s the risk you take in this digital age, digital content purchased is linked to your account and stored on the servers so even if you couldn’t access it it’s still tied to your account it’s not like it’s just gone.
Can’t they just make like a Eshope app of Netflix of games and just have it transfered from console to console like how it works with an account with Streaming? So once you buy a game digital it is yours forever like how a person purchases movies on Amazon Prime. I thought they would have already did that back when Nintendo went from Wii to Wii U. Wii and Wii U had the best Eshope.
Depends i6n the environment of the Switch 2. I’d be mighty pissed if my eshop games don’t transfer, but also, those games were built/ported for the Switch, not Switch 2. I hope the engineers can work that magic.