Results: You Can Now Register For A 'Nintendo Account' And Pre-Register For 'Miitomo'

While Nintendo launched their unified Nintendo Account last year in Japan, as of today the service has been opened up worldwide including per-registration for Miitomo as well. This is part of an ongoing logistical process on the part of the company to unify their community backend through social media, consoles, PC and mobile. As big things are afoot in the next few months in terms of Nintendo’s move into mobile, it’s clear that with the rolling out of this unified Nintendo Account worldwide they are trying to get their ducks in order. This is because the first major mobile app from Nintendo will be Miitomo out in March, which sounds more about building a community than being an actual game. Therefore, this rolling out of the Nintendo Account worldwide and Miitomo per-registration is entirely necessary before that event. The cynic in me actually thinks Miitomo is merely a type of server load test before the bigger titles are rolled out later across mobile and console. This is entirely conjecture on my part but this kind of load testing for a mainstream service would be a smart move, especially as Nintendo has not done anything like this before. Not only in terms of technology but also in the sheer distributed scale of it. Regardless, this now worldwide Nintendo Account setup is the first necessary step in Nintendo’s slow and inexorable move into mobile. While they may be approaching all this rather cautiously, Nintendo is in a precarious position. On the one hand they have their console fanbase that are wary of mobile and a mobile market that is eating itself alive through rampant app saturation. Judging the right approach through both markets is clearly an unenviable task but a thoroughly necessary one. Both mobile and console gaming need Nintendo’s great mobile experiment to work; otherwise, both industries could eventually stagnate.