Nintendo Switch Day One Update Reveals Friend Codes Are Returning

“The Nintendo Switch is the most sought after video gaming system in the market today, and GameStop will have extra units for those customers looking to buy the innovative system”.

One of the biggest drawbacks of the Nintendo Switch at launch are the optional and not-so optional additional buy-ins it requires.

The earliest sighting of a game reviewer putting a Nintendo Switch cartridge in their mouth came from Giant Bomb’s Jeff Gerstmann. In addition, many of these releases will have system-exclusive features.

After a week and a half with the Nintendo Switch, I finally have the day-one update for the device. Moreover, it has been pointed out that the friends cap list is also quite small at 300 max, as compared to XBox Live (at 1,000) and PSN (2,000).

Yet considering Nintendo’s long history of … let’s call them supply challenges, people get understandably antsy whenever something like this pops up.

What’s so cool about Nintendo Switch? From here you can enter the code, add local players or search for someone you’ve previously played with. Except with Nintendo the design of the console can change a lot, even if the insides don’t.

Add friends from Miitomo, Super Mario Run, and other Nintendo mobile games.

The Switch comes out this Friday, March 3, and will cost $299.99. Nintendo also plans on doing the same for the Wii U and 3DS NNID provided that the same are also connected to their accounts.

While that may sound freaky, Nintendo has confirmed that this was an intentional move created to stop children and pets from swallowing the tiny SD card-sized pieces of plastic.