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Shuntaro Furukawa: Switch Successor Will Utilise The 'Nintendo Account' System (www.nintendolife.com)
submitted 3 years ago by [M] to c/nintendo@lemmy.world
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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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[–] 2 points 3 years ago (7 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.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 3 years ago (6 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.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (2 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 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.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    All nintendo has to do is make a higher resolution OLED display, a bigger battery, and a modern day chip. Heck, they can even go Snapdragon.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    More memory storage would be great too, especially if the trend towards digital only distribution continues. I'd prefer continued commitment to physical media, but now publishers are even pushing it more towards the disk/SD card basically just holding DRM for a game you still have to download, not to mention DLC and updates. I don't even have a particularly large Switch library but my 128 GB SD card is filling up fast.

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