North American Version has less language options

[StarlitGlitch]

Okay! So then I should have a Nintendo account for each region that I want to download games from, and then even if I switch my profile I can still play the game?

 

[pocky]

This is great news for me! Not for everyone else..

I live in Japan and am buying the Switch bundle here. I know Japanese so if I didn't have the option to change the language it'd be okay but since I grew up with the English version and because I want to share content online with English speakers this is great for me.

So I guess in the game my region will be Japan, so I'll get those events, but I can still play in Japanese.

Also the accounts thing is a bit confusing to me haha. Also I don't own a switch so I'm confused, are Nitendo accounts linked to eShops? Meaning to access a different eShop I need to make a new Nintendo account? And it's one Nintendo account per Switch profile? It's all very confusing to me.

You can have up to 8 profiles on a Switch. Each profile can have 1 account linked to it for a total of 8 accounts per Switch. Since the Switch is region free you can make an account for another region and add it to switch that way. The region of the eShop that launches depends on the profile you used to access it. So if I use a Japanese profile I'll get the JP eShop, if I use an American profile I get the NA eShop.

 

[StarlitGlitch]

Thank you! Time to start setting up some account ahead of time I suppose haha.

 

[Scarfy]

Has anyone actually pre-purchased ACNH from the NA eShop yet? When I change the system language to Japanese, some of the game's titles and thumbnails change to Japanese even if their eShop page didn't list Japanese... but that's not the case for all of them (Splatoon 2). If anyone has ACNH pre-purchased, they'd be able to see if the thumbnail and title changes when they change the system language and thus be able to see if the NA copy of ACNH is playable in languages other than English/Spanish/French, wouldn't they?
I really want to have Japanese available to me, but I don't want to sacrifice US English or Latin American Spanish for it.

 

[Xara]

great ideas! it?ll likely be an option that we get to select at the start like other games