Nintendo Switch’s transition to its successor has already started through the online account system

Nintendo has begun the transition to the successor of the Nintendo Switch without you knowing it. Doug Bowser, President of Nintendo of America, explained in an interview with Inverse the movement they made to facilitate their ecosystem to transfer an entire fanbase to another platform. Specifically, questions on whether the continuity of the content of this generation and the investment of the players in the face of the next hardware are assured.

“Well, first I can’t comment — or I won’t comment, I should say — on the rumors that are out there,” Bowser begins. “But one thing we’ve done with the Switch to help with that communication and transition is the formation of the Nintendo Account. In the past, every device we transitioned to had a whole new account system. Creating the Nintendo Account will allow us to communicate with our players if and when we make a transition to a new platform, to help ease that process or transition.”

And continues: “Our goal is to minimize the dip you typically see in the last year of one cycle and the beginning of another. I can’t speak to the possible features of a new platform, but the Nintendo Account is a strong basis for having that communication as we make the transition.”

The backwards compatibility of the software in the successor to the Nintendo Switch is one of the topics that is generating the most noise online. The Nintendo Account concept as we know it today began in 2016, just a few months before the launch of Nintendo Switch in March 2017. Based on Bowser’s words, we can extract that the same model will continue to be present in the next generation, which increases the chances that your digital library formed on Switch can be moved without cracks to your new console. Be that as it may, we will have to wait for official communications from Nintendo when they decide to talk about what is to come at the hardware level.