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In further comments, Furukawa noted that Nintendo had previously needed to rebuild the relationship with its customers with every hardware transition.

Wii and Wii U owners will remember Nintendo’s rudimentary Nintendo Network ID system, and the pain of trying to carry this identity across consoles. So the transition from Switch to its successor will, incredibly, be the first time Nintendo’s users will be able to carry their account from one console to the next. Nintendo Accounts were soft-launched in 2016, and weren’t tied into a Nintendo hardware platform until the release of Switch the following year. This seems like a pretty innocuous and obvious statement, but for Nintendo, it’s significant.

Asked if the company had any specific measures in mind for the transition to next-generation consoles, Furukawa brought up Nintendo Accounts.Īs translated by Twitter user Genki, Furukawa said: “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.” Speaking to investors at a recently published open question-and-answer session, Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa made one of his rare comments about Nintendo’s next console.