Nintendo is “Very Much Aware” of Demand for a Unified Account Across 3DS & Wii U

<p>Many gamers have become frustrated with Nintendo and its lack of an account system ever since the Nintendo Wii was originally launched meaning that if your console broke&comma; you would lose all of your virtual console games and &lpar;unless Nintendo was feeling generous&rpar; would have to rebuy them all alongside a new console&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>This didn&&num;8217&semi;t get any better with the introduction of the 3DS and the Wii U where gamers are now seeing a huge push from Nintendo in digital distribution&comma; allowing full retail games to be purchased as digital copies alongside NES&comma; Snes&comma; GameBoy&comma; GameBoy Color and exclusive eShop titles&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>However&comma; whilst nothing has been announced&comma; Dan Adelman who is head of business development at Nintendo of America recently spoke to Destructoid and they eventually got onto the subject with Dan Adelman saying&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>&&num;8220&semi;We don&&num;8217&semi;t have anything new to announce&comma; unfortunately&comma; other than we&&num;8217&semi;ve definitely heard that feedback many times from both inside and outside the company&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s definitely something that we&&num;8217&semi;re very much aware of&period; All development for the infrastructure really happens out of Japan&comma; so we&&num;8217&semi;ve kind of communicated this need in the market&comma; and they&&num;8217&semi;re very much aware of it and working towards really just always improving the eShop&period;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>In terms of how developers or consumers are impacted by it&comma; I&&num;8217&semi;ve definitely read a lot of frustrations from consumers&period; I actually haven&&num;8217&semi;t heard it too much from developers — it just doesn&&num;8217&semi;t come up as much in conversation&comma; or if it does come up&comma; it&&num;8217&semi;s usually from a standpoint of them also being a consumer as well as a developer&period; But I have never heard a developer say&comma; &&num;8216&semi;I&&num;8217&semi;m interested in making games for the eShop&comma; but because of this account system&comma; I really don&&num;8217&semi;t feel comfortable doing that&period;&&num;8217&semi; That hasn&&num;8217&semi;t seemed to be a barrier at this point&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&lbrack;Source&colon; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;destructoid&period;com&sol;nintendo-eshop-a-work-in-progress-261768&period;phtml">Destructoid<&sol;a> via <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;nintendolife&period;com&sol;news&sol;2013&sol;09&sol;dan&lowbar;adelman&lowbar;nintendo&lowbar;is&lowbar;very&lowbar;much&lowbar;aware&lowbar;of&lowbar;demand&lowbar;for&lowbar;a&lowbar;unified&lowbar;account&lowbar;system">Nintendo Life<&sol;a>&rsqb;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"zemanta-pixie" style&equals;"margin-top&colon; 10px&semi; height&colon; 15px&semi;"><img class&equals;"zemanta-pixie-img" style&equals;"border&colon; none&semi; float&colon; right&semi;" src&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;img&period;zemanta&period;com&sol;pixy&period;gif&quest;x-id&equals;2c06ad91-74a9-4d97-ad41-44be7cc02b32" alt&equals;"" &sol;><&sol;div>&NewLine;