Forum - View topicNEWS: Nintendo Reveals Switch Virtual Game Cards, Nintendo Today! App
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LinkTSwordmaster
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This one has a lot of people worried. Pretty much every reaction I was seeing this morning from the people streaming and chatting about it was "oh no, Nintendo is pulling a Netflix!"
Currently, you can set a primary and a secondary console, and it allows your family or friend to use your digital games without too much restriction. If this new system mucks with that, it's gonna be really bad. I personally think this whole thing is a case of Nintendo pulling a WiiU again and having really poor messaging - I'm hopeful this new system is an addition on top of the existing system in place, but what sucks is that it's Nintendo and they certainly could be that level of tone-deaf & muck it up. Certainly no one was asking for that news app, after all.... |
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Davy Sprocket
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I don't really get the digial cart thing and I don't buy digital games but if it's just a roundabout way of family sharing games then okay.
The news app sounds like another thing no one will use like their voice chat app. |
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Lord Geo
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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. |
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jdnation
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Isn't the new Nintendo online account unified going forward? Much like PSN and Xbox LIVE? I don't think so. It's just an attempt to try and give digital the convenience of physical. But it is even more complicated and restrictive. The question to be asked is, whether after 2 weeks of lending out the game to another person via this system, can the same person borrow it again after? Or is the 2 weeks essentially a limited time demo after which they can never borrow it again, ever? |
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Covnam
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As long as this doesn't get rid of the current primary/secondary system, then this seems like a good thing.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but currently you need to be online when using a secondary system for a game that was purchased on the primary system. This method seems to allow you to loan a game for a time and play even when you're offline. Eventually (unfortunately) physical games will go away, so (for consumers at least) there needs to be some replacement for most, if not all of the benefits of having a physical game. This seems to be something moving in that direction when it comes to sharing games. @Lord Geo This appears to be a temporary transfer, so I don't think it's related to moving to a new system. I imagine that will work the same as when you change Switch systems now unless we hear otherwise. |
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Top Gun
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That attitude was cute in the distant past when online play on consoles was still something of a novelty, but it's the year 2025. I've been able to install my Steam purchases on as many PCs as I want at the same time for over 15 years now. I buy all of my Switch games on cartridge because I don't trust Nintendo's online infrastructure as far as I can throw it, but I assumed that by the Switch they'd finally tied purchases to an account like a sane company. When I saw this come up in the Direct I just sat there and laughed at it. Making online functionality that everyone else figured out years ago ridiculously over-complicated and restricted is vintage Nintendo. |
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SnowWarren
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I'd be more in favour of this if it worked internationally, so I could loan games to my nieces in France, but it only works locally.
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EmeraldSaucer
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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
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Dr. Wily
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Well it wouldn't be Nintendo if they didn't make some part prohibitively confusing. 
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Covnam
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Switch games are tied to your account. |
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Top Gun
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Okay...well this makes even less sense to me now. Like, what's the point of it? If you can already log onto a new Switch and redownload the games you've purchased, what does this "eject/load" fluff even do? |
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Minos_Kurumada
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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? |
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Lord Geo
Posts: 2772 Location: North Brunswick, New Jersey |
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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. |
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