Nintendo account is a must have account to use various Nintendo network services. To use Nintendo Switch to play games, players need to create a "user" on the device first. Nintendo accounts and local users are not the same concept. After the local user is bound to the Nintendo account, the player can use various Nintendo network services normally through the NS at hand. Including access to eShop, friend functions, etc.
can create up to eight local users on one NS, and the game storage data is stored separately according to the local users. Choose different users before playing the game, you can connect to their different game progress. This is a way to distinguish when multiple people use NS together. If the local user sets the NS as a "host to play at any time", other users can also play the download version of the game purchased by the user on this NS. How to create a local user
In the "Main Menu", select "Settings"
to enter the "User" tab, select "Add User".
How to bind a local user with a Nintendo account
Click the user's avatar in the "Main Menu".
Select "Associate Nintendo Account" in the "Personal Information" tab.
and then enter the account information to complete the association. How to delete
account
In the "User" tab in "Settings", first select the user profile picture.
Select "Delete User" in the user's setting menu to delete the local user. The deletion of
will not delete the Nintendo account bound to it. However, the download version of the game purchased by the user will not be available on this device. The user game data of
NS is stored in the storage space of the machine. If there is no Nintendo member and the data can be saved to the cloud, deleting the user and clearing the data will cause the loss of related game progress, so deleting the user needs to be careful.
