Nintendo hasn’t formally introduced its new console but, however the firm appears to be suggesting that your present Swap account will carry over to the brand new {hardware}. No matter that finally ends up being and each time Nintendo broadcasts, then launches it.
Rumors about Nintendo’s subsequent console after the Swap have been swirling for the final couple of years. With followers hoping for a Swap Professional that comes with extra highly effective {hardware} and higher efficiency/higher trying video games. One other ache level for Nintendo console house owners has been the lower than fascinating strategy of transferring your present profile and all related particulars to the brand new console.
It’s not precisely essentially the most consumer-friendly in terms of buying and selling up in Nintendo’s ecosystem. However that might very properly be altering now. As reported by IGN, Nintendo appears to counsel that transferring your Swap account to the brand new console will probably be potential. The main points come from Nintendo’s shareholder assembly final week. Nintendo CEO Shuntaro Furukawa states the corporate is planning a “clean transition” (through Genki on Twitter) for purchasers from the Swap to the next-gen {hardware} by utilizing the Nintendo account.
Nintendo President Shuntaro Furukawa says they plan to make a clean transition for purchasers from Nintendo Swap to the next-generation console by utilizing the Nintendo Account!
– There are at present 290 million Nintendo Accounts throughout console & cell.https://t.co/Y9O8vmeySz pic.twitter.com/OrIYQ1K5XU
— Genki✨ (@Genki_JPN) June 27, 2023
Your Nintendo account on the brand new console might imply you retain your video games
Whereas that is doubtlessly large information for Nintendo followers, there are nonetheless a number of questions customers probably have. It might be a touch that the corporate plans to permit those that have bought digital video games on the eShop to switch these to the brand new console. One thing which Nintendo didn’t do with the transition from the Wii U to the Swap.
It’s additionally a normal follow that each Sony and Microsoft have executed with their PlayStation and Xbox consoles. With a number of exceptions on sure outlier titles. In fact Nintendo hasn’t confirmed this but. And it could be some time earlier than the corporate shares any concrete particulars about what its subsequent console will probably be, and what options it would supply.