Nintendo Accounts total surpasses 290 million
New information relayed by Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa reveals that over 290 million Nintendo Accounts have been made worldwide. Furukawa passed that tidbit along during a financial briefing today.
Also mentioned is that the company “will continue to use Nintendo Account to build long-term relationships with people who come in contact with our games through various IP initiatives.”
Furukawa’s full words:
We will continue to use Nintendo Account to build long-term relationships with people who come in contact with our games through various IP initiatives. For our users, Nintendo Account complements the gaming experience in a variety of ways, such as by consolidating software purchase history, friends, save data, experience data and other important assets.
The number of Nintendo Accounts has exceeded 290 million worldwide and continues to grow. The accounts are held by a broad range of people, with a well-balanced range of age groups and gender, and they are becoming an important foundation for our business going forward.
We will continue to develop services based on Nintendo Account that align with our core business of creating unique, integrated hardware-software products.
