Nintendo 'aware' of calls to merge 3DS and Wii U accounts

September 17th, 2013, 00:10 Posted By: wraggster

Nintendo in Japan has recognised a growing consumer demand to unify online accounts across the 3DS and Wii U, according to an executive at the company.
Dan Adelman, Nintendo of America's head of business development, said Nintendo has definitely "heard that feedback many times from both inside and outside the company". However, he was unable to commit to unifying the consoles' online accounts for customers.
"It's definitely something that we're very much aware of. All development for the infrastructure really happens out of Japan, so we've kind of communicated this need in the market, and they're very much aware of it and working towards really just always improving the eShop," he toldDestructoid.
Currently, owners of 3DSes and Nintendo Wii Us must maintain separate online accounts for purchasing games, managing data and collecting bonus items. This puts Nintendo in an unflattering contrast to Sony, which has unified its PlayStation Network across PS3, PS Vita and PS4 systems.
Adelman, a Nintendo executive who was working at Microsoft when the company launched Xbox Live Arcade, spoke highly of the Wii U's appeal for indie games developers.
"I think indie developers by their very nature are open to taking risks," he said.
"They don't have big shareholder communities that they have to answer to. It's really trying something new and taking the path less taken."
He said it was his personal ambition to help get indie games recognised within the wider casual market.
"If you talk to someone outside of the gaming industry, someone who doesn't necessarily follow [or] read all the blogs and keep up with the latest news, a lot of them are really unaware of a lot of these games. They've never heard of them, don't know that they even exist. So right now, it's a little bit of a niche audience of people who follow all of these games.
"But I'm personally convinced that if you get these games into people's hands and they try them, they'll be shocked. They'll be surprised at how good these games are.
"So I spend all of my time playing indie games; frankly, it's been a while since I played a full retail game just because there's so much great stuff out there."
It was claimed in the Destructoid article that as many as 80 per cent of Wii Us have established a connection to the internet.

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