General Nintendo Accounts and Nintendo Accounts for children are different in the following ways:
- An email address cannot be registered to an account for a child. Any email notifications are sent to the email account registered within the parent/guardian's Nintendo Account.
- Nintendo Accounts for children can be created for users age 0 through 17. General Nintendo Accounts can only be created by users age 13 and older who have an email account.
- Nintendo Accounts for children can be linked to a Nintendo Network ID only. They cannot be linked to Google accounts or Apple IDs.
- All Nintendo Accounts created for children aged 12 and under are automatically set up as a supervised account in the Nintendo Account family group.
Other than these points, they function almost identically.
