Use your Nextendo account to play Minecraft; that one is no longer necessary The patchMaybe... because of Nextendo? I still have the setup as it was before 26.41 but with the latest patch.
I can say, it doesn't ask immediately for Nintendo account anymore but as soon as I try to enter the wardrobe or whatever, it still gives that prompt.
So yeah, the path doesn't work right out of the box on 26.44.

