RadarScope1
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Damn right it is. One step closer to this consumer actually considering buying Nintendo products again.
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DeNa/Nintendo Account system announced
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Damn right it is. One step closer to this consumer actually considering buying Nintendo products again.
immortal-joe
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Are DenA expected to handle these accounts on a global level, or just Japan? Should we expect a similar announcement for users in the US/Europe/Rest of Asia....etc?
Why do people think this means they will have the ease of logging in on multiple Nintendo devices?
Nintendo are already capable of doing this. They already have an account system. The problem is they only allow it to be registered to one console at a time because they are worried about people sharing their games. This isn't a technical limitation.
Nintendo are already capable of doing this. They already have an account system. The problem is they only allow it to be registered to one console at a time because they are worried about people sharing their games. This isn't a technical limitation.
Starwolf_UK
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I think Nintendo have another Wii U in misinformation. They call it a membership service, not an account. That should really set you expectations as to what this will and won't do.
Currently it sounds like an addition to me as in link to NNID like you did Club Nintendo.
SolarPowered
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Fantastic thing
Nintendo sucks at just about everything that isn't videogame software nowadays.
sixteen-bit
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I hope cross buy becomes ubiquitous
Linkstrikesback
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Are we sure it isn't? This is, after all, the company whose idea of crossbuy is giving you a download code usable on any system, rather than automating it through the shared NNID.
Global. Press conference was live translated in EN.
You use your NNID to identify yourself amongst different nintendo services. Be it the eshop or miiverse.
DeNa will help nintendo build this infrastructure where you can access everything with the same NNID. Compare what DeNa will build with Battle.NET. Different games/consoles/apps/websites will use your NNID - and all will contain the same global profile about that user.
I also assume they will help Nintendo build the "Nintendo App" for mobile, while Nintendo will build the 3DS/WiiU/NX equivalent.
True that it isn't mentioned, although it's reasonable to assume they will use the same architecture behind the scenes. It would be strange to build a specific account system for QoL after such a huge operation to unify everything. I assume they don't mention it yet to keep the message simple(r), which seems already very complicated for people to grasp.
outunderthestars
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I think you might have to wait until the next round of systems for that to happen.
That is not my point. My point is that there is no mention of the QOL platform for the membership service specifically, while every single other platform is mentioned.
It is interesting to note that. It is especially surprising since Iwata has already mentioned previously regarding QOL that he wants it to be another way for people to discover Nintendo software, so excluding it from this membership service is weird to me.
……forgetit
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It's literally the best news we could have received on the matter. Nintendo can make great games, but whenever the I word comes up they turn into a bunch of slack jawed idiots
the I word is Internet.
Well as someone who had this exact situation happen 2 months ago, for me I was already able to do this (albeit with a lot of hassle). My 3ds broke so i ended up buying a 3ds XL (I wanted an excuse to buy one anyways) and called up Nintendo to do a system transfer.
After 30-40 minutes of pain and torture with them, i finally get to the part of transferring content. They were able to transfer my NNID, but said that they couldn't transfer the games/saves. The reason was because i couldn't recall all the games that i purchased digitally for the device (which i felt was a bs way to verify since i have like 40 games digitally on it, hadn't played in over a year and my memory sucks so i couldn't recall every game i had bought on the spot).
So I went to the eshop to buy shovel knight again, and lo and behold it said i already purchased it on this account and i could redownload for free. Granted I lost my saves, and it was still a huge pain in the ass but it seems like you can at least redownload your games if you transfer the NNID to your replacement 3ds. Also I learned that I think even Nintendo customer service has no clue how any of this crap works.
HUELEN10
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This needs to be repeated.
They only ask for the last 3 games you purchased, at least in the UK that is, The phone call was over in 20 minutes for me when I did mine.
Can't wait, great news.
I have purchased cross-buy games that register on both systems automatically.
The code is so you can give it to someone else if you don't have the other console - in fact Iwata suggested people do this.
Nintendo is now DeNa's second largest shareholder, so it's not exactly outsourcing
Edit: I might be wrong...2nd? 3rd?
truthiness
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Yep - this is all I picked up from the article. I'm hoping it actually happens, but I will still leave it to Nintendo to fumble it on the goal line.
thecouncil
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I'll believe it when I see it and it functions as I imagine it should.
efyu_lemonardo
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Wow, apparently they own 10% of the company. I did not know this.
pinkurocket
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I knew it. This DeNA deal more than anything is for their expertise in mobile connectivity. They have the biggest social platform in Japan on mobiles with Mobage, Nintendo wants those servers and knowledge on how to handle them.
Hooray for an universal account system!
Hooray for an universal account system!
entremet
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Did they say it's gonna effect previous purchases?
This seems more like a CN replacement?
Didn't nintendo let another company handle TVii? How did that turn out?
Just because another company is doing it, doesn't mean nintendo won't mess it up somehow. Still apprehensive about it, but I hope for the best.
That too. We can hope for the best, but it doesn't mean we'll get it. That said, a struggling nintendo is a strong nintendo. A nintendo willing to do what it takes to get stuff done. Let's see what this becomes. I'd love my virtual console purchases to transfer to a new system, and if this facilitates that, then so be it.
One mistake doesn't make a trend. Let's just hope, they learned from this (at least Nintendo bought some stocks of the company).
Whether their new endeavours will work out or not this to me is Nintendo fully decided on what they want to do; with a clear strategy and very much forward-thinking. I'm on-board, and unified services for all their entertainment products is exactly what they should be doing (or to be blunt: should've already done).
It's a bit of a misnomer to put the blame entirely on Gamespy, since all they provided was the general service. The back end stuff, like friend codes, was all handled by Nintendo.
Diddy Kong
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hopefully it's awesome
BeatResetsTheWorld
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HUELEN10
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Which, in the history of a company over a century old, is very recent history.
Roberto Larcos
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Fucking yes.
I may even switch to digital only (like I do with Xbox One) if this is on-par with PSN / Xbox Live / Steam, and doesn't have any game-breaking weird shit mixed in. And virtual console games. I'll be buying a shit ton of virtual console games.
I may even switch to digital only (like I do with Xbox One) if this is on-par with PSN / Xbox Live / Steam, and doesn't have any game-breaking weird shit mixed in. And virtual console games. I'll be buying a shit ton of virtual console games.
Yeah mine was in the US, and i wish that was all i had to do. The guy said to list them all off so i got about 15-20 games in and started to blank. It turned out not to be a big deal though since ultimately i was able to redownload them, albeit without save data (which i had kind of anticipated from the start so it wasn't a big deal for me)
Squall5042
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Well, it was basically news of news. We still don't know almost anything yet -_-
Zombie James
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A decade late but better late than never. About time.
BeatResetsTheWorld
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They also said gamers don't want online, Sony also had a strategy of assuming people would pay $599 just based on their name, and MS...well actually seemed to have their shit together
I just hope that it just absorb the NNID as I don't want to waste time having set up a new account.
They aren't lying, Nintendo does have an account system. It's just archaic in how you recover your digital titles since the account is locked to the system.
Hope not and honestly I don't think that they will.
You can already do that, though again it's archaic it requires you phoning Nintendo. But the new account system should hopefully remove the middle man.
I guess, yeah. The fun part is guessing when more news will come. Nintendo Direct? E3?
Great news, even tho I had no issues with my WiiU yet, if something like what happened with my Xbox one which crapped out after 3 days were to happen I would have had to jump thru too many hoops to get all my games back to my new system, all I had to do was log in and download my games back on my new xbox one.
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