Virtual Game Card confirmed to be an optional feature
Virtual Game Card confirmed to be an optional feature
by Adamaneve
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Adamaneve
> If you liked how the old system worked, it seems you can keep doing it that way.
> “We think many people will enjoy the benefits of virtual game card, but it is an optional feature, and the original method can be used instead,” said a Nintendo spokesperson.
junglespycamp
I bet it is not optional on Switch 2.
jackboi112
This option is great for friends splitting for online through a family account, but it’s nice that someone with a family with multiple devices can still use the old method because that is easier for that situation
stipo42
What was the original method?
I only have one switch.
IIITommylomIII
i bet 20 dollars that someones gonna figure out how to jailbreak a switch with this
mist3rdragon
I wonder what gave that away, the fact that the initial announcement told us that?
switch8000
I WISH… there was a way to temp convert physical carts to digital carts so I really could take advantage of it all.
I prefer physical, but damn is digital convenient.
Drezus
Bullshit source that just cohoborates what everyone’s been talking about on the trailer, which is not proof at all. As far as I can tell, they could just be talking about how you’re allowed to force online checks for each time a game is booted under this new system. There’s absolutely no reason they’d keep two completely different backend systems just for variety’s sake, specially when the system is being implemented specifically to address loopholes from the older one.
AssaultMonkey150
I’m a really smart person but this is so comically complicated. I hate the idea of voluntarily losing your license for a digital game because you “lent” it.
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Virtual Game Card: Introducing the virtual game card – a new feature for easily managing purchased digital games, playing games on two different systems, and even lending or borrowing games. Similar in concept to moving physical game cards between systems, virtual game cards make it possible to “eject” a purchased digital title from one Nintendo Switch system and “load” it onto another – whether it belongs to a member of the same Nintendo Account family group, or a second system tied to your account. **This optional feature allows you to view virtual game cards or eject them from your system.** The digital game can also be lent to a Nintendo Account family group member’s system via local wireless connection. Games that you lend can then be played on a Nintendo Account family group member’s system for two weeks, after which the game will be automatically returned to you. This feature will be available on Nintendo Switch starting late April via a hardware system update. Additionally, virtual game cards will also work with Nintendo Switch 2 systems at launch.
MightyHambino
When the game returns back to you after the two week period, can you share it back to the same person?
TheDoctorDB
Curious why this isn’t seen as a purely positive feature tbh. I’m not seeing the downside. And it seems to me that they’re prepping being able to use this to transfer digital purchases to the Switch 2.
Carighan
I mean, yeah. How would it be not-optional? You **have** to lend someone your game, whether you want to or not? 😅
johnnycoxxx
You know what I would like? The ability to download my physical games to the console so I don’t have to swap cards. I don’t personally mind it, but when my kids play they can go from mariokart to yoshi to mariokart to mario to mariokart pretty quickly. It’d be nice to be able to just have them on the switch
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> If you liked how the old system worked, it seems you can keep doing it that way.
> “We think many people will enjoy the benefits of virtual game card, but it is an optional feature, and the original method can be used instead,” said a Nintendo spokesperson.
I bet it is not optional on Switch 2.
This option is great for friends splitting for online through a family account, but it’s nice that someone with a family with multiple devices can still use the old method because that is easier for that situation
What was the original method?
I only have one switch.
i bet 20 dollars that someones gonna figure out how to jailbreak a switch with this
I wonder what gave that away, the fact that the initial announcement told us that?
I WISH… there was a way to temp convert physical carts to digital carts so I really could take advantage of it all.
I prefer physical, but damn is digital convenient.
Bullshit source that just cohoborates what everyone’s been talking about on the trailer, which is not proof at all. As far as I can tell, they could just be talking about how you’re allowed to force online checks for each time a game is booted under this new system. There’s absolutely no reason they’d keep two completely different backend systems just for variety’s sake, specially when the system is being implemented specifically to address loopholes from the older one.
I’m a really smart person but this is so comically complicated. I hate the idea of voluntarily losing your license for a digital game because you “lent” it.
[https://www.nintendo.com/us/whatsnew/latest-nintendo-direct-reveals-nintendo-switch-games-virtual-game-cards-and-a-new-smart-device-app-nintendo-today/](https://www.nintendo.com/us/whatsnew/latest-nintendo-direct-reveals-nintendo-switch-games-virtual-game-cards-and-a-new-smart-device-app-nintendo-today/)
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Virtual Game Card: Introducing the virtual game card – a new feature for easily managing purchased digital games, playing games on two different systems, and even lending or borrowing games. Similar in concept to moving physical game cards between systems, virtual game cards make it possible to “eject” a purchased digital title from one Nintendo Switch system and “load” it onto another – whether it belongs to a member of the same Nintendo Account family group, or a second system tied to your account. **This optional feature allows you to view virtual game cards or eject them from your system.** The digital game can also be lent to a Nintendo Account family group member’s system via local wireless connection. Games that you lend can then be played on a Nintendo Account family group member’s system for two weeks, after which the game will be automatically returned to you. This feature will be available on Nintendo Switch starting late April via a hardware system update. Additionally, virtual game cards will also work with Nintendo Switch 2 systems at launch.
When the game returns back to you after the two week period, can you share it back to the same person?
Curious why this isn’t seen as a purely positive feature tbh. I’m not seeing the downside. And it seems to me that they’re prepping being able to use this to transfer digital purchases to the Switch 2.
I mean, yeah. How would it be not-optional? You **have** to lend someone your game, whether you want to or not? 😅
You know what I would like? The ability to download my physical games to the console so I don’t have to swap cards. I don’t personally mind it, but when my kids play they can go from mariokart to yoshi to mariokart to mario to mariokart pretty quickly. It’d be nice to be able to just have them on the switch