13/11 Nintendo Direct - wall-of-text summary...

[Mr Khan]

osed125 said:

the_dengle said:

3) 3DS is getting a firmware update. You will be able to connect your 3DS to your existing Nintendo Network ID if you have one, or create a new one. This will combine your Wii U and 3DS eShop balances if you have both, and it will enable Miiverse access through your 3DS with your NNID.

I don't know how the Nintendo Network ID works, but does this mean we are finally getting an unified account system?

Uncertain, although having this in place certainly means that a lot of the back-end work required to make that possible would already be done, and would get the benefits that people really want out of it (combined shop balances and the ability for the NNID to run across multiple consoles if necessary, meaning that the ID is your primary identity as the network sees it and not the machine itself). Clearly now we are able to run the ID from multiple machines, then it becomes a separate entity and the rest of the matter is working on the back-end to eventually move the 3DS away from friend codes and onto the NNID system, running a merger soon after.