Nintendo has blocked two Switch consoles from playing an online game simultaneously through account sharing.
Ty at Aussie-Gamer writes: "n March 2016, Nintendo will switch from a fairly fragmented account system to one unified account that will span across all Nintendo devices current and future. It will also launch a brand new loyalty programme called ‘My Nintendo’ to replace the discontinued ‘Club Nintendo’.
Since the word ‘Nintendo’ is being heavily featured in all these changes, it can get a bit confusing. Of course, there’s still ‘Nintendo Network ID’ to worry about. To help out, we’ve put together a quick guide to understanding the new account systems. Here we hope to point out some of the features of each to help ensure you get the most out of the changes."
All I really care for is for Nintendo to enable the ability to access your NN account and all your digital content across multiple consoles and handhelds instead of just being locked to one hardware.
how many times must u repeat yourself. We get it.
Wait til the Wii U and 3DS update first.
Well, that's probably not going to happen.
But it would be nice to be able to at *least* have the same account tied to two pieces of hardware. Especially of Nintendo wants to keep billing itself as a "family company." Because, you know, families typically consist of more than one person.
...Please speak in compete sentences.
Anyway: a household, too, typically consists of more than one person, and generally speaking, when someone uses the term "family" it is in reference to the immediate family, not the extended family, or one's entire lineage.
Because it's rather difficult for more than one person to play a 3DS at the same time?
Just... how stupid are you to not be able to think up the reasons on your own?
@ Otaku
As many times as it takes as long for Nintendo to fix such a simple issue. It shouldn't be taking years long to accomplish what other services have done without a second thought
I'm hoping the ways to earn points will expand as they go.
Currently we don't have a clear idea of just how many different tasks there are, and how repeatable they are, for earning the two different kinds of coins.
This article gives us a basic idea, but doesn't really go as in-depth as I wish.[not that that's their fault, lack of information considered, but still]
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NE: "Excitement is in the air. You can almost taste it.
Last night, Nintendo opened registration for Nintendo Accounts. This morning, pre-registration for their upcoming mobile app Miitomo opened. In reality, these are small events; while yes, we can register/pre-register, neither service is currently operational. There is nothing we can actually do with our newly registered accounts.
Yet it’s exciting. There is a reason social media blew up when Nintendo Account registration went live. While it doesn’t change anything in the present, it’s a sign of changing times."
yes, hopefully. the excitement for me is something fresh. the ps4 and xbox one to me are just average pc builds that offer nothing new to the gaming world. i want to try all the vr sets and hope they open up new and exciting experiences.
but nintendo has always had some sort of magic nobody else has but thy fumble with the wii u and the hardware.
I disagree with you because you didn't write it in the present, you wrote it on the past, because otherwise, I couldn't be replying to you in the present because you would be still writing the comment so I could reply to you in the future.
D:<
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*AHEM!*
A month or so from now, people will see the start of these new services.
And when the services don't immediately have every feature they've ever wanted/expected of them, they will call them failures and Nintendo will be called a doomed out-of-touch company by their detractors again.
And then when the services DO get some of the features they want, they'll brush them off with cries of "too little too late" instead of giving them due credit.
*Puts ball and floppy hat away*
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Sounds about right. People are already trying to downplay it by saying it should of been out 10 years ago or something of that nature.
Thats not downplaying it, its merely saying the truth.
This is a good thing, but clearly its something that is extremely long overdue and who knows just how many lost consumers have already moved on else where to meet such needs.
Its going to have a lasting impression and it very well could be too little too late. This is great for them now, but they've lost many due to the lack of this feature through out 2 gens. How many will really return because of this that are not already consumers else where?
This is a much needed feature, but in this day and age, its so common that to even celebrate it, is to really confirm just how out of touch and dated Nintendo actually is. This shouldn't be new to them in the first place.
Maybe if people got this idea that Nintendo is just a video game maker into their head unlike Sony (entertainment) and Microsoft (online) who have vast experiences in those departments, they would understand why Nintendo has had difficulties getting those into its console.
I don't even think that is a valid excuse.
MS didn't make consoles prior XB, but still followed what they saw happening.
Sony didn't have online in the previous Playstations ie 1 and 2, but included it based on what they saw happening.
Is their a reason why Nintendo does't get this concept?
MS still had to learn and change XBL to what it is today, on XB it didn't just start out day 1 like how you see it on XONE.
PS had to evolve to be what it is to day, it didn't just day 1 have such a slick OS, online features etc.
I just don't see that as a valid excuse as Nintendo released Wii the way they did....ok fair, they don't get it all the way and made a mistake, but the Wii U? I mean...seriously?
If they are having "difficulties" in areas that have been laid out by BOTH competitors for 2 gens now, something is deeply wrong and maybe they don't need to be in the hardware business and just focus on software. This is getting a bit too costly for them to continue making such mistakes.
I don't get how its taking a decade for Nintendo to understand what is happening in gaming, yet MS and Sony change and evolve every gen and get it, yet Nintendo is going on many console generations not learning from their competitors.
Sony and MS had Move and Kinect within the generation of Nintendo's Wii...
They just can't compete with such response and effectiveness. Sony and MS can adjust to the market, regardless of what they primarily do, Nintendo clearly can't in an effective time and might be on their way out if they keep this up, this has to be extremely costly for them.
It's not an excuse, it's a fact. Sony has experience with movies and music. Microsoft has experience with online, Nintendo has experience with video games. Ps2, Xbox and GameCube all had online going as Xbox-PlayStation-GameCube. Both Nintendo and sega dabbled in semi online/subscription based gaming, with stuff such as the sattaview, etc. Just because they try different things instead of doing carbon copies of the other systems features doesn't mean they're going anywhere. They've literally sold 12 mil copies almost exclusively by themselves with little advertising and a "bad name" while it will end up their least successful console they've still achieved a lot with this console. No other game company could sell as much as they have with the handicap they've had this gen.
Buddy I'm sorry its an excuse, you can't keep pointing towards what these companies primarily due to explain why they're not doing something in gaming that generally makes sense.
Microsoft is generally not a hardware company they learned Sony didn't have an online infrastructure they learned.
is there a reason why Nintendo is unable to properly adopt to market changes fast enough? How is it that Microsoft and Sony are able to adopt to the changes in the market with fast effectiveness and Nintendo somehow gets a pass? What's even sadder about this entire thing is Nintendo is a company that is primarily only about gaming they should be focused on this more so than even Sony and Microsoft.
To a degree I can see how those companies are doing just fine with having a strong history in business but at the same time you have to understand Nintendo has had two generations to implement something that has been implemented by both companies, no scratch that count valve count good old games count countless other companies that have account systems that don't lock your information to a piece of hardware this is an even really about Sony or Microsoft as much as it's about the incompetence of Nintendo to run a damn business I'm sorry but it just doesn't make any sense that a company in this day and age has a piece of hardware that the locking the items you purchase for it on the device because phones do this?
I mean can you honestly name many products that offer online items from a store in which they have no account system and get locked on the device?
But I like Nintendo's software i still purchase their handhelds still, i will purchase the next handheld day 1 but they honestly need to get out of the console market because they cannot compete with the Sony or Microsoft and its in fact hurting their software I grow tired of playing something like Mario Kart knowing I can't even properly chat with a friend or send a message or even have them know that I'm playing certain games because they have a horrible infrastructure that is almost non-existent on certain features that the industry deems a standard we can't keep making it sound like this is a Sony Microsoft thing because is it not a steam thing? Is it not on origin? Is it not on Good Old Games? For god sake is it not on Facebook? So what you're telling me is there unable to just do any of these things other companies are also doing and have been doing for a decade plus?
I like Nintendo as a software company but I'm honestly not giving them such a pass as a businessman it's very clear this company has made some huge mistakes over the years that were so clear and transparent as day you could see them coming a mile away in terms of being horrible mistakes.
This is great news that they're getting an account system but at this point if they're even able to reach the infrastructure of the PlayStation 3 circa 2006 it very much might be too late for them to even gain any ground that have been made from other companies.
The account system that works with the PlayStation 3 Vita PlayStation 4 isn't a fluke its been planned for well over a decade to be that way Microsoft infrastructure with 360 Xbox one and PC isn't a fluke it has again been designed to be that way in terms of their account system.
is there a reason why Nintendo for the longest time has not been planning for a synergy type of future with their products? I'd rather like to believe that they've been ignorant to the situation then to believe that they purposely been locking items to hardware because they could care less about having you have rights to items that you paid for later on in the future.
What a piss poor excuse. Nintendo is oldest out of the bunch they should be leading the pack, not flailing behind ;)
I completely agree both Sony and Microsoft I've adapted to market changes and even implementing motion controls within the generation of Nintendo doing it themselves so how is it that after the fact Nintendo was unable to adapt to any changes going on in the market?
You have to diversify or die it's as simple as that there a terrible company at doing that and they risk bankruptcy if they continue to not understand their market they exist in and what's even more sad and embarrassing about this is the company primarily only focuses on gaming it still doesn't understand what gamers are seeking today.
If you like Nintendo you should want the best for Nintendo and I'm sorry but what I personally like about this company is put aside to discuss what they're doing incorrectly in business. Not sure how many people need to die, get fired, quit or whatever to get this company in the right track because it seems that for well over 15 years they have no clue about what they're doing and it's becoming painfully obvious that they've been skating by with no real competition and now they're unable to really get how to run this business successfully.
rjason12- I'm sorry but that is not a valid excuse for why this company does not adopting to methods that were in place a decade ago. I've given you numerous examples from both companies at what they were and what they became after changes adapting to the market in implementing concepts to become industry standards.
That is like saying well for fact Sony doesn't make an OS thus could never released a system with a separate OS but they actually did with the PlayStation 3 by using Linux something they did not owned by licensing it out you need to understand business is a variety of things can be adapted differently for different reasons is not this black and white there is very much Shades of Grey.
As to why you thought it was so absolute is beyond me other than somebody literally purchasing or submitting the right to a patent they don't 100% own such methods even then there are ways around it in which they could create their own there is no excuse for why Nintendo is this slow to adapt to the market I'm sorry buddy but there is none.
You just going to have to face that there are some incompetent people at Nintendo that is like me saying when I first started out as an agent in real estate that because there were top agents that were doing it longer than me that I could not possibly use their methods and just disregard them altogether and blame them for my failures that doesn't make any sense buddy.
Yep the top Agent at my firm I currently make more than them with just my investments alone. I didn't need to work or have been established longer than them I just adapted to the business and found my own way of making more money.
Success is not a straight narrow road it's not an inevitability it is not something that is an absolute matter of fact that cannot be changed there are many variables involved to just really believe that this company for a fact cannot do something that these other companies can do I don't really believe such thing as what we're talking about is something that even the smallest companies can have implemented.
Companies that have literally existed in less time than Nintendo has are implementing things now longer than they have in areas that make sense for their business to strive.
read the book diversify or die read the Purple Cow that you understand adapting to a changing market.
Much of Nintendo’s new membership reward program, My Nintendo, remains a mystery. However, thanks to a small line in Nintendo Account’s “Delete Account” option, we know that My Nintendo will be implementing some sort of Mission system.
Wait...
Am I the only one that thinks that sounds like Nintendo's giving us side quests?
Is this for real? Is Nintendo adding an RPG element to an account system IRL?XD
In all seriousness, though; it's probably something like "play this game for this many hours to get this many gold/platinum points" or something.
Is it really that surprising? Companies have been using RPG mechanics for years.
Those "points" you earn with your credit card? Those are totally an experience system.
And then there's China's "social credit" idea, which basically takes the trappings of an RPG and applies it to "good citizenship."
This is one of those "that's the joke" moments.
Hence my use of "in all seriousness" afterwards.XD
But yeah, I'm curious as to why they'd use the name "missions" for it.
It could be just a different name for familiar things, but Nintendo has a habit of doing things differently...
