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Shuntaro Furukawa: Switch Successor Will Utilise The 'Nintendo Account' System (www.nintendolife.com)
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According to comments made by Furukawa during Nintendo's recent shareholder Q&A, the plan is to utilise the existing Nintendo Account system to make the jump to the next generation as smooth as possible for customers. Here's part of what Nintendo's president had to say, courtesy of a translation by Twitter user Genki:

Shuntaro Furukawa: "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."

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[–] SophismaCognoscente@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sounds like backwards compatibility is a lock—not that it’s a huge hurdle for today’s machines—since most of the account features involve software and save data. The retro game archives will probably make the jump too, since keeping them locked behind a paid membership is probably more lucrative than the Virtual Console ever was.

Anyone who has ever transferred their account to a new Switch knows how easy it is, for the most part. The biggest chore is redownloading software data, so maybe Nintendo will allow full game data to transfer over via SD card this time.

[–] slimerancher@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just hope it's fully backward compatible, and they keep the hybrid design. I love it. Rest they can play around as they like.

[–] OmniGlitcher@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The hybrid design is probably the way they're going to go. I'd love a higher spec one that isn't though, even if it's just a pipe dream. The ideal set-up for me personally would be:

  • "New Switch Lite" - Undockable, permanently handheld, like the Switch Lite but with better hardware.

  • "New Switch" - Dockable, again like the Switch, but better hardware.

  • "New Switch Pro" - Undockable, permanently docked, better hardware than the New Switch.

New Switch obviously not the best name, but my creativity is bankrupt. At least it's not Switch U.

[–] mixagin@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Just saving this comment for when "Switch U" is officially announced in April 2024 😅

It is Nintendo after all

[–] OmniGlitcher@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

If they announce a Switch U, having not learnt from the Wii U, I will be genuinely shocked. Do feel free to remind me if that occurs!

[–] straF@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

They lost 90% of their sales the last time they added that letter, I doubt the would do it again.

Switch V.

[–] nostalgicgamerz@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Wait so back to the superior system to what the Wii U had??

No more friend codes???

[–] Fais@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Is this the first mention of a Switch 2?

[–] Narann@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I suspect the “you will keep your * game library” is missing the “*compatible*”.

Making a game working on a new hardware is a big amount of work, especially for tiny teams.

So ether the softwares are binary compatible (a Switch binary work on the new hardware without modification), ether we will lost many games.

Wait and see…

As a Metroid Prime Remaster buyer, I'm a little sad to realize we will maybe not see the 2 and 3 on Switch. :-(

[–] Felix@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't know whether I am the only one. But somehow I want the next Nintendo console to fail. I don't know whether it's nostalgia, but I really like the Wii U. Nintendo was trying their damnest to make the system sell well and after the Switch came out. They didn't bother fixing any vulnerabilities, making it very homebrew friendly. Also they got stupid Nintendo fans like me to throw money at them and keep them financially afloat.

And no, I'm not trolling here. This is serious.

[–] slimerancher@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Well, I don't understand your reasoning completely. You liked Wii U because it failed? I personally don't care about homebrew, I buy consoles to play games, if there are no games, what's the point.

Switch is currently my favourite console, so don't really want next Nintendo console to fail. Want it to succeed even more than Switch.

[–] Ippei@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I just hope it doesn't come out before holiday 2024. I'm too broke Nintendo, you already took all my money this year, let me recover for a bit

[–] slimerancher@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Haha, I can understand it. I don't think it will release before that. They will have at least half an year between announcement and release of the console, and it doesn't seem like they are going to announce anything this year.