Wii U expects your household to consist of 12…

<p>During yesterday&&num;8217&semi;s Nintendo Direct broadcast&comma; hosted by Satoru Iwata&comma; information regarding how many user accounts can be stored on a single Wii U system were revealed&comma; as well as the Nintendo Network ID&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Focusing on the later first&comma; the Nintendo Network ID is replacing the famous &&num;8220&semi;friend-code&&num;8221&semi; which we can only assume falls more into place with a username such as what is used on Xbox Live and PlayStation Network&period; When you first connect your Wii U to the internet you&&num;8217&semi;ll be expected to input information such as name&comma; age and gender in order to create your account and access online features such as the eShop&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In regards to the amount of user accounts a single console can store however is puzzling&period; Nintendo seem to feel that up to twelve people will be using your system at different times&period; Each account is represented by an individual Mii character and has access to its own saves&comma; downloads and games&period; They can also create their own Nintendo Network ID which allows the other eleven users on the console to access their downloadable content&period; So if Timmy buys a game from the eShop&comma; Mum&comma; Dad and even Grandpa can access the content&comma; regardless of what account they are on as they are playing on the same console&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Nintendo later announced that the Nintendo Network ID will be rolled out to the 3DS and other systems such as smartphones and that big old&&num;8217&semi; internet&period; Have Nintendo finally got up to date&excl;&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&lbrack;Source&colon; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;nintendolife&period;com&sol;news&sol;2012&sol;11&sol;wii&lowbar;u&lowbar;user&lowbar;accounts&lowbar;and&lowbar;nintendo&lowbar;network&lowbar;id&lowbar;detailed">Nintendo Life<&sol;a>&rsqb;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;