Nintendo Accounts will 'ease transition' to Switch successor, says Doug Bowser

With reports increasingly pointing to a Switch 2 launch next year, Nintendo of America boss Doug Bowser has talked a little about the company’s perspective on entering a new console generation, saying he believes its Nintendo Account system will help ‘ease the transition’.

While Bowser, unsurprisingly, refused to comment on reports of a Switch successor specifically, he highlighted to Inverse (in the same interview where he discussed unionisation at Nintendo) the work the company has done on its single sign-in Nintendo Accounts.

“One thing we’ve done with the Switch to help with that communication and transition [to a new console generation]”, Bowser explained, “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.”