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Nintendo revealed today that multiple user IDs could be stored on the Wii U, allowing a household of gamers to have their own personal data on a single console. A bold step forward, but there's been some confusion as to what these IDs mean -- will they signal the end of friend codes?
We went straight to the source, Nintendo (obviously), to get a straight and clear statement on the issue. Are friend codes a thing of the past? According to what we were told, it would appear so!
"Our plan is replace Friend Codes with a much more user-friendly Account ID system," a spokesperson told us, "which employs user-created account names."
There you have it, a definitive answer on the friend code situation. Ridiculous and unwarranted strings of numbers .... YOOOOOU'RE OUTTA HERE!
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With a name like Dudebro -- My Shit Is F*cked Up So I Got To Shoot/Slice You II: It's Straight-Up Dawg Time, you know you're in for something special. This is the project from Grimoire Assembly Forge, a team made up of NeoGA... more
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12:25 PM on 11.07.2012
