https://www.polygon.com/2018/4/12/17229492/minecraft-nintendo-switch-xbox-achievements-better-together-update

"Nintendo Switch doesn’t have a built-in achievements system, a la Xbox Achievements or PlayStation Trophies, but the Switch version of Minecraft will soon bring Microsoft’s brand of achievements to the platform."

"A set of Xbox Live achievements for Minecraft for Nintendo Switch was recently spotted by content creator Patrick Maka, who posted about the finding on Twitter, and by achievement tracking website True Achievements. The achievement list appears similar to the Xbox versions of the game as well as those on non-Microsoft platforms, like Android and iOS. (PlayStation versions of the game do not tie into Xbox Live Achievements.)"

"A representative for Minecraft confirmed to Polygon that the game’s Switch version will indeed track Xbox Live Achievements later this year."

“We can confirm that Minecraft players on Nintendo Switch will soon be able to earn achievements tied to Xbox Live once the Bedrock update is released,” a Minecraft spokesperson said in an email.

"Minecraft: Nintendo Switch Edition was released in 2017. The game’s Bedrock update started rolling out in September 2017 and allowed players on Xbox, mobile, VR and PC to play across those various platforms."

What do you guys think?
Theres rumors of Microsoft putting gamepass on everything (ps4/switch/android ect)... and now theres rumors of Xbox Live achievements for multiple games & platforms comeing.

Any Switch owners here looking forwards to xbox Live soon on the Switch? and game achievements?

Who ever thought Nintendo would be OK with something,like this, Nintendo really has changed

We are one step closer to banjo in smash.

It seems weird. And wrong. And bad.

I suppose it's a good thing for those who own both the Switch, are part of the Xbox/MS gaming ecosystem, and are into achievements. I'm guessing this will be pointless for a majority of Switch owners though.

Does anything else think this could be the start of MS getting out of the hardware bussiness? Going 3rd party?

Didn't you sell your Xbox One though? So achievements didn't even get you to keep that console!

MS does say they plan to put all their own 1st party games on gamepass.
You know they plan on getting gamepass on switch.
They opened up a new division at MS to deal with streaming services (ei. streaming xbox games to other devices)
Now theres xbox live + achivements comeing soon too.

It might happend.

Nintendo slacking off so badly that they need one of the other console makers to do work for their D:

Not even achievements are exclusive

But srsly, this is awesome.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2018/04/12/a-hacker-just-fixed-the-biggest-problem-with-nintendo-switch/#580e7e82e432

"As much as I love the Switch, Nintendo's portable console is still flawed. As we all know it lacks the ability for users to back up their game data to an SD card or transfer those saves to a PC. While certain hacking groups are working successfully to open up the Switch to homebrew (and potential piracy), one hacker devoted his efforts to solving this lack of functionality"

Computer engineer Bernardo Giordano created the solution in about 2 weeks according to Kotaku. He's also known for developing "Checkpoint," a file manager for Nintendo 3DS, which probably contributed to that short development window.

In a tweet earlier this week, Giordano said "Seems that we successfully performed save backup and restore operations directly on #NintendoSwitch through Checkpoint! Source code will be available sometime this year (with some goodies coming for the Nintendo 3DS version) on https://t.co/w8lr6hi4DH." [Author's note: The Twitter short url is safe and leads to his 3DS "Checkpoint" software on Github]

Giordano provided Kotaku with proof-of-work via these two images showing the save manager in action which looks fairly simple to operate.

The Switch community has been badgering Nintendo to provide a backup save solution for their games, and that's a reasonable expectation for any console. Especially since using some 3rd party charging peripherals for the Switch can brick your system, resulting in 80 hour Breath of the Wild and Skyrim saves being wiped from existence. Even if a Switch system is damaged beyond repair by other means, that data is gone forever.

The obvious question here is this: if a hacker did this in a matter of weeks, why hasn't Nintendo released an official solution (other than transferring from Switch to Switch) more than a year into the console's existence? Giordano gave Kotaku some solid speculation: “It’s something that isn’t really in the interests of the company,” he said. “They generally don’t want people to mess with their saves to avoid hackers to find a way to penetrate the system, which is totally reasonable.”