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NEWS: Nintendo Reveals Switch Virtual Game Cards, Nintendo Today! App

My guess is that this will be the method by which Switch owners will be able to transfer their digital Switch games over to Switch 2, when that launches.

Remember, the last two times Nintendo offered a new piece of hardware that could play digital releases from the prior hardware (Wii -> Wii U, DSi -> 3DS) they both required some esoteric method to allow people to transfer their digital games from the older hardware to the newer hardware... and both times they were one-way transfers that effectively removed all of your account info from the older hardware.

Now, sure, Nintendo could simply do what Microsoft & Sony do with their consoles by simply using the same general account system to allow games to be installed on multiple consoles with little to no hassle. However, it's been proven time & time again that "Nintendo gonna Nintendo" & will always prefer to do something their own way. To them, this is probably them showing leniency compared to last time, since it leaves the OG Switch alone, more or less, instead of removing all of your prior account info this time.

Now, sure, Nintendo could simply do what Microsoft & Sony do with their consoles by simply using the same general account system to allow games to be installed on multiple consoles with little to no hassle. However, it's been proven time & time again that "Nintendo gonna Nintendo" & will always prefer to do something their own way. To them, this is probably them showing leniency compared to last time, since it leaves the OG Switch alone, more or less, instead of removing all of your prior account info this time.

There were already way more steps involved than necessary, but adding an arbitrary 2 week limit on having family members borrowing a game borders on parody of Nintendo being cartoonishly restrictive

but I assumed that by the Switch they'd finally tied purchases to an account like a sane company.

Switch games are tied to your account.

I legit don't get how people has problems understanding this thing.

It's simply a way to lend one of your games to a member of your family plan for 2 weeks, you cannot use it, he can, the game comes back in 14 days.

Worse than Steam, better than PS.

What is there to understand?

It's more than just that, and in fact the whole "lending to others on your family plan" aspect was only the second half of the video about this program.

The first half was all about being able to transfer your own digital purchases from one Switch you owned to another, and since people are saying that games are attached to the account rather than the system it makes the very idea of the first half of the video sound rather obtuse & superfluous. That's why I said that it comes off like Nintendo soft announcing how we'll have to "transfer" our digital Switch games to Switch 2, instead of simply allowing people to just download straight to Switch 2 once you set your account up on it.