{"id":3742,"date":"2017-03-03T00:14:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-03T07:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taterboy.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/nintendo-says-it-will-offer-easier-ways-to-add-switch-friends-in-the-future\/"},"modified":"2017-03-03T00:14:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-03T07:14:00","slug":"nintendo-says-it-will-offer-easier-ways-to-add-switch-friends-in-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taterboy.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/nintendo-says-it-will-offer-easier-ways-to-add-switch-friends-in-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo says it will offer easier ways to add Switch friends in the future"},"content":{"rendered":"

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There\u2019s not much like a new console launch day for video game fans, this<\/a> but our excitement for Nintendo\u2019s Switch was tempered very slightly with the news that Nintendo would still be using<\/a> its cumbersome Friend Code system to connect players. Hours before the Switch hits store shelves, though, there is some good news \u2014 Nintendo says it\u2019s going to provide<\/a> other ways for users to add friends in the future.<\/p>\n

In a statement given to Polygon<\/em>, Nintendo said that it planned to allow Switch users to eventually be able to add friends through social networking services, as well as via Nintendo Network IDs \u2014 a cross-platform system similar to Microsoft\u2019s Gamertags or Sony\u2019s PSN names. You\u2019ll also be able to add people you\u2019ve recently played with to your…<\/p>\n

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There\u2019s not much like a new console launch day for video game fans, this but our excitement for Nintendo\u2019s Switch was tempered very slightly with the news that Nintendo would still be using its cumbersome Friend Code system to connect players. Hours before the Switch hits store shelves, though, there is some good news \u2014… Read the full article…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3743,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[174,377],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-games-media","category-gaming"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t