What Is the Difference Between a General Nintendo Account and a Nintendo Account for a Child?

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.

• Some My Nintendo missions can only be completed by users with a Nintendo Account.

• Nintendo Accounts for children can be linked to a Nintendo Network ID only. They cannot be linked to Google or Apple accounts.

• 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.