How To Link Fortnite Account To Switch

Sony finally backed away from its staunch and difficult-headed approach to cross-platform play yesterday, announcing that it would start letting players of Ballsy Games' Fortnite utilise PlayStation-linked accounts on the Nintendo Switch and Xbox One, every bit well as play against one some other on shared servers. The motion is a huge win for consumers subsequently the PR disaster Sony suffered dorsum at E3. It may also exist the offset step in a broader, transformational shift in the console game industry abroad from the locked downwards and restricted approach to platforms that's existed pretty much since the onset of widespread online multiplayers.

Even so, it's not exactly a simple solution, and Sony admitted as much when John Kodera, the president and global CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment, said the feature would be available in open beta "to carry thorough testing." On the programmer end, Epic is working to help players with a feature that merges accounts, and so players with multiple purchases and virtual currency can bring all of that together into a single account. Epic is also working on a split up characteristic that lets you unlink an business relationship from one device and re-link information technology with another. (The sometime is coming in November, and the latter in "a few days," according to Epic.)

Right at present, nonetheless, y'all tin get your PlayStation account on the Nintendo Switch version of Fortnite so long as yous don't care nigh losing access to whatsoever progress or purchases yous've made on the Switch version. For PSN players, like myself, that never bothered playing on Switch because it meant not having admission to any of my skins or Battle Pass progression, this is the simplest solution to get properly set up up to play on Switch.

Step 1: Log into Epic Games' website with your Nintendo ID and unlink the Switch

The about important matter to know about this process is that it does not take place on the Nintendo Switch itself. In fact, yous never even have to properly log in to your PSN account on the Switch version of Fortnite. That's considering Nintendo does not allow yous to log out of a Switch-linked Epic account from the Fortnite customer itself. If you've logged in once, the account is stuck from Nintendo'south point of view.

Instead, the changes you'll make occur using Ballsy's online account system, which can now freely collaborate between Sony'southward PlayStation Network and the Nintendo Account system. If you never bothered playing Fortnite on Switch and never fabricated a Nintendo-centric business relationship in the outset identify, then you're in even better shape. Merely jump to step two.

Heed this warning if y'all've bought anything on the Switch version of Fortnite or have whatever progress you're worried about losing. It won't come with you until Ballsy launches its account merging characteristic in November.

If y'all did happen to create an Epic account linked to your Nintendo Switch, head over to Epic Games' website and log into your Nintendo Account. From there, click the "Business relationship" option that drops down under your username, head to "Continued Accounts," and click "Disconnect," under the Switch icon. Follow through with the prompts, which will warn you lot about losing access to purchases, progression, and shared contour data. It will also warn you near how this procedure "will non unlock restricted platforms," which is actually outdated at this point because of Sony'due south policy change.

Step 2: Log into Epic Games' website with your PSN business relationship and re-link the Switch

Now, if you're a PS4 Fortnite actor, you lot already have an Epic business relationship created through logging in on the console itself. Logging in to the same Epic website and heading to connected accounts will give y'all a list of platforms, which at present includes a properly working Switch option. Clicking "Connect" will let you lot log in with your Nintendo Account, and that's it. You're linked and good to go.

Step 3: Fire up Fortnite on Switch and permit it automatically log in

Head over to Fortnite on the Switch and launch information technology using the contour on your device that's linked to your Nintendo Account, the very same account yous only linked to PSN through Epic's website. You'll accept to agree to a EULA, but and so information technology will automatically put you lot through the login process. Afterwards that, you'll meet your account, condom and sound and with all its glorious skins and Battle Pass progress intact on your Nintendo Switch.