Shortly before the Nintendo Switch 2 next week is presented in detail, Nintendo held a direct show case for the first switch. An innovation was also presented that enables you to also give digital games.
Nintendo Switch gets game sharing
Physical games have a great advantage over digital titles: you can share them with other people or resell them later. The second continues to work on the Nintendo Switch, but there will soon be a new system for the former: theVirtual software card.
They don't allow you to give games free, but you can at least with thatShare your family group with members. Up to eight accounts can be linked in this way.
To give a game, select it in your account, click on "Give a family member" and then choose one of the other accounts that belong to your family group. With each person you can only share one game for 14 days at a time - after that it automatically returns to you. The memory data on both accounts remain untouched.
Unfortunately only possible locally:The system sounds pretty cool, but there is also a not insignificant restriction. In order to give games to another person, your Switch consoles have to link to each other via a local wireless connection.
That means you can't just exchange online games with your friend, but have to meet in person and of course be together in a family group.
You can also manage all Virtual Game Cards in an overview on the Switch and also load them to a second switch console-you also need a local connection between the two consoles, but only if you connect them for the first time. Incidentally, this can also be done between the Switch and the Switch 2!
What else was announced at the Nintendo Direct can be read here:
When does the game sharing start?The new function is not yet live, but we don't have to be patient for too long. Play sharing should appear with a console update at the end of April.
What do you think of the game sharing? Will you use it or would you have wished for an online variant?
