The Nintendo Switch is upon us, and it still utilizes friend codes for users to build their cache of online acquaintances. This guide will assist you in finding your Nintendo Switch friend code, ...

The Nintendo Switch will require players add friends by swapping codes or linking to smartphone apps. The Nintendo Switch day one update is here, including online and eShop functionality-plus a little ...

The release of Nintendo Switch's day-one update revealed that the system makes use of the dreaded friend code system. However, this will be further supplemented (or replaced entirely) at some point ...

In what is possibly the worst news Nintendo fans could have gotten short The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild not being a great game, it turns out the Nintendo Switch uses Friend Codes. GameSpot is ...

No one rains on Nintendo's parade quite like Nintendo itself. While the gaming internet raves about how sensational the new Zelda game is, Nintendo's just-deployed day one update for the Switch -- out ...

With the launch of Nintendo Switch, all indications seemed to point to Nintendo moving away from the cumbersome way to add friends to play lists. Unfortunately, a day-one patch preparing for ...

After a week and a half with the Nintendo Switch, I finally have the day-one update for the device. And it turns out that a piece of Nintendo’s online legacy has returned to haunt us once again like a ...

"There are no friend codes within what we're doing," Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aime said in a January interview with CNET. And there was much rejoicing. Imagine our surprise when the ...

The Nintendo Switch’s day-one update hit this morning, bringing with it the need to exchange the much-hated friend codes as a way to add friends on Nintendo’s online network in certain situations. The ...

Nintendo Switch's day one update, which is out now, reintroduces Friend Codes as the main method to add friends. The update--which also adds the eShop--means you can register new pals by searching ...

Now that Nintendo Switch's day-one update is rolled out we can finally see the exact way to add friends onto the system...but you're not going to like it. Yes, it uses friend codes. Press Start has ...

We're not getting rid of friend codes just yet, as the Nintendo Switch day one update makes clear. Earlier today, the day one firmware update for the Nintendo Switch was released to the public. The ...