Create a new Nintendo Network ID
I'm not quite happy with my NNID I registered initially, and I want to change it. I'm planning to register a new NNID user, unlink current user from Nintendo Club, link new user to Nintendo Club. As far as I know I still will have access to all purchases I've made using it, while old user will be registered on the system.
Is there some other potential problems I'm missing?
So, I've completed operations as planned and everything seems working as expected. Suppose you want to use new NewName
as a primary NNID instead of old OldName
with a possible minimum impact.
- Register a new
NewName
user on a console, and follow standard procedure of creating new Mii and NNID. You can use same email as forOldName
user. - Under
OldName
user, launch eShop and unlink Nintendo Club if necessary. - Under
NewName
user, launch eShop and link Nintendo Club if necessary. - Under
NewName
user, in user switch menu selectMake Default
.
That's it! You can still access all purchases made under OldName
. Of course you lose all information associated with old account, most notably including save games (however some games have shared
save files which are user-independent), friends and all Miiverse data. But as long as you keep old user you can always switch back to access it.