Nintendo Switch to get Xbox Live achievements with Minecraft update

Very interesting. Not surprising given you can earn achievements on the mobile version. But still interesting. Makes me wonder if Microsoft and Nintendo have some back room agreement. It would make sense given Microsoft is far more experienced at online gaming than Nintendo and due to the form factor of the Switch, you could argue they don't technically compete against each other.

The xbox one x SOC out classes the Tegra SOC in the switch. So really there isn't much of a competition in that regard. However when it comes to social gaming with friends and family, Nintendo owns that market hands down. Albeit they are heavily lacking when it comes to online gaming. Personally I'd rather see them continue focusing on fun, social experiences as online gaming is a rather siloed experience as there is little emphasis in team work. Sea of Thieves is not the norm for the current gen, I hope it's not the last. Never the less, Zelda - Breath of the wild has proven that Nintendo is still a master in story telling. It's own amazing game and it's huge. Then again the Zelda series have always been amazing games to play and with a really good story lines.

Although I'm interested in Mario and Zelda, I haven't bought my Switch.
And I have XPA for out-door gaming. Switch has many flaws imo.
e.g. charging port's at the bottom of the console and strap might stuck (same as Samsung's Galaxy Pen incident), but there's this one missing feature that I cannot live without, is the lack of cloud sync. I'm not investing my time on something I can lose forever.
Big-N used to be the caring one but Switch feels like it's designed by amateurs. Despite that, I tried Zelda. And as a lead programmer (who likes experimenting new tech, new programming concepts in his free time)... I think the design of the animation controller is quite primitive, I had hard time... Anyway, no cloud sync or any viable backup methods, no Switch games for me. * If you wanna know if I'm qualified to say those things...
I'm a lead programmer working in a major dev / publisher. I walked in this industry with no resume and interview. I've obtained my Japanese in a year, now working in Japan.
C++ is my root, Havok & Dx took me a month to understand (cause I was a student and I had 0 3d programming knowledge, then I build my demo with active ragdoll and dynamic keyframe animation system) and I can start playing JAVA, JS, HTML5, Python, PHP, SQL, C#, Unity, Unreal, you name it, day 1, without books or someone's teaching.
I've build a game engine using WebGL once for another company. Recently I helped building the framework and all projects in-house from now on will be using it.
Unity users have been requesting "Nested Prefab" for years but it's not out yet. I designed mine in 2 days and it's in the framework.
A new Unity project wants to use some "interesting" animation technique, I'm goona work with some lead designers to build the system, and management is asking my team lead if he can release me (cause I'm the lead programmer. I build the infrastructure). Right now I'm designing my own GameObject, Transform & Component (exchangeable with Unity's version).

@Hirox K. First of all you don't have to qualify your opinion, it's an open forum albeit comments and posts have to be within context and within the blog/forum community guidelines. Secondly, I do agree about the lack of cloud sync. Also a online messaging system, however apparently that was being misused for cyber bullying. So Nintendo simply opted to remove it and change it so you can message directly to a person within the same room apparently. That's what I heard but I don't have a second switch or access to one to verify it. However going back to your point, yes cloud sync is a massive issue. I did say Nintendo are heavily lacking when it comes to online gaming. This is one aspect of online gaming, which most people don't really think about. Cloud saving can get cost prohibitive if you don't have access to a data centre or a way to offset cost. Which is why cloud saving is a PS Plus feature, Sony unlike Microsoft don't have data centres all over the world. Nor are they able to offset losses through many divisions/departments. Cutting costs with the PS Pro is a primary example. I doubt they wanted to be the under dog when it came to the PS Pro but with no bottom line, the company will fall out. Hence they have to save money and can't continue making losses per console. Fortunately for gamers and developers we finally have someone in the SLT now who has completely focused xbox on gaming as result revitalised that department, after the xbox one launch fiasco. The xbox one when launched was a true multimedia console but only the TV features were highlighted. It wasn't gamer focused, if it was and the TV features were just additional features then it would have been better. In addition the issue about the always on connectivity, combined with paranoia about the kinect and the messaging afterwards created a fiasco. But thats neither here nor there as it's old news. What matters is where Xbox currently stands and the xbox one x is leaps and bounds better than anything in the current gen. Combined with true backwards compatibility and the amazing 4K remasters people are getting for free / very good prices i.e. Red Dead Redemption. In terms of animation in Zelda, I would say it's an evolved take on the cell shaded animation of Wind Walker on Gamecube. But it doesn't detract from the story line imo.