US EditionNintendo’s new system for sharing digital Switch games, explained
- During a Nintendo Direct, Nintendo announced the upcoming launch of Virtual Game Cards planned for late April, enabling users to share digital games between consoles.
- This new system addresses the limitations of sharing digital libraries among multiple Switch users, particularly within families, as current digital purchases are only fully accessible on the owner's primary console.
- Virtual Game Cards allow players to 'digitally eject' and 'digitally load' games between a maximum of two systems, requiring an internet connection for loading and ejecting, and an initial local connection for syncing the consoles.
- The new system, according to Nintendo, will make digital games even easier to use, allowing players to "freely load and arrange which games you play on up to two systems", and Nintendo says any registered user on the console can play that digital game.
- For family group accounts, VGCs can be lent to family members for a maximum period of 14 days, after which the game is automatically returned, with the borrower retaining their save data, although only one game can be lent to each family member at a time; it is unclear if the Virtual Game Card system will be compatible with the upcoming Switch 2.
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The Japanese giant of Nintendo video game announced on Thursday the arrival of a feature allowing to lend the dematerialized versions of its games to its entourage, a possibility so far reserved for physical cartridges.
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