Nintendo Account System Will Carry Over To Nintendo Switch’s Successor

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Nintendo has made a promising new announcement when it comes to their future services on Nintendo’s next console.

As reported in NintendoEverything, Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa fielded a question from an investor in the company’s most recent quarterly financial meeting.

This seems to be a response to the question about backwards compatibility for Nintendo Switch games to the next console, which Nintendo have yet to announce.

As translated by Genki_JPN, Shuntaro gave this answer:

“As for the transition from Nintendo Switch to the next generation machine, we want to do as much as possible in order to smoothly transition our customers, while utilizing the Nintendo Account.”

Furukawa’s carefully worded answer suggests that the company would like to offer backwards compatibility, but not actually confirming that that would be the case. It may be that Nintendo is internally working on such features but haven’t finalized a solution for it yet.

Nintendo Account is a significant step forward for Nintendo when it comes to user accounts, something which most fans would probably take for granted, but is obviously a bigger deal than it sounds.

Now, I should point out that Nintendo’s attempts to offer online functionality is older than most gamers think. All the way back in 1988 in their native Japan, Nintendo offered the Family Computer Network System, a joint venture with local telecommunications company NTT, and financial services company Nomura.

This entailed installing a modem to your Famicom, with its own controller, to access video games and other services, like stock market updates, horse race betting, even buying postal stamps. As you can imagine, the venture was way too early for its own time, like the Satellaview,