Damn i wish the 2nd system could just only be played on the acc that bought it without the need of wifi since its a handheld and all. Still, its better than nothing
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Nintendo Switch now supports digital game sharing amongst multiple consoles
- Thread starter Atheerios
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Same way you log into yours. Enter your account info into theirs and make it your primary and vice versa.
I don't get why some people are complaining about this. It makes a lot of sense in how it is implemented.
- You can game share to an extent, but two people can't be playing on the same account at the same time... which makes sense.
- They provide a way to (mostly) back up your saves online, and you can presumably be able to play from that save on two systems if you need too.
- If you break your Switch, you now have a way of changing your primary system and without losing save data or any of your downloaded games tied to your account.
- You can game share to an extent, but two people can't be playing on the same account at the same time... which makes sense.
- They provide a way to (mostly) back up your saves online, and you can presumably be able to play from that save on two systems if you need too.
- If you break your Switch, you now have a way of changing your primary system and without losing save data or any of your downloaded games tied to your account.
This isn't just big. This is a complete game changer. This just completely made my night. Literally the one thing I was asking for from this service. I'm game sharing right now with my wife and I'm ecstatic right now. GG Nintendo. You took something I was barely excited for and made it one of the biggest deals of the year. YES
Well, the lack of online features on the system makes the choice to stay in airplane mode the majority of the time very easy.
And as long as I have connection my roommate and I can switch anytime?
So, you have to purchase the family plan ($35) first right?
My switch and my daughter's switch are both using the trial plans but can't download on hers.
My switch and my daughter's switch are both using the trial plans but can't download on hers.
It's standard compliance to publish support page at the same time a new firmware releases and a new feature is supported such that a support page is necessary to accompany with it.
You don't want to publish a support page for a feature that isn't supported on the current firmware. That gets messy with unnecessary headaches.
Just caught that
So, add a new user (me) to my daughter's switch)
Label it non-primary
Re-download off E-shop?
- Add new user to target Switch.
- Re-download anything purchased on eShop.
- Then label it non-primary.
- Then hand it off.
Also always be online, and on the non primary system the person has to use the account profile who bought the software.
I got so excited about this, only to be super disappointed that it doesn't work like on Xbox. Oh well.
Been trying to figure that out myself. Seems there isn't a way to do so.
So the conundrum is whether I set up my daughter as primary so she doesn't have to switch users . then again i dont want to be limited to an online environment
Guess i'll keep mine primary
Guess i'll keep mine primary
This is fantastic news. I share my Steam library with a friend so I'm sure she'll be up for sharing her Switch library with me. Fuck yes, more games.
Theoretically you could take your primary system offline and still play games from your account in two places simultaneously that way, but with the coordination involved and the convenience of automatic cloud save backups this might be less than ideal.
This is why I'm not excited about this like everyone else. It's too restrictive for my tastes. I think going physical whenever possible is a much better solution for me.
among so many other reasons why they designed it this way, they also want to assure both my daughter and i are both buying copies of Ultimate Smash Bros.
On your Switch your roommate will be primary and you can play his games on your Switch without internet, but if he plays on his which his account will be non primary he needs internet and vice versa if you play your games on yours which will have your account as non primary you'll need to be online.
Hope that helps and there are drawbacks so make sure it fits your situation. I personally love it because it's like buying games half off since I get to play what my brother buys and vice versa.
The real use case to test is to use your games on a secondary system while also accessing them with another offline user on your primary system.
Also can't combine accounts (pretty obvious, but I was hopeful): https://en-americas-support.nintendo.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/22276/~/can-i-combine-two-nintendo-accounts-together?
My B for jumping down your throat a bit. I read it as more of a complaint than pure statement. I just don't see many other options that wouldn't amount to further abuse of a system that could affect software sales.
I understand that it's not ideal for a system that loses connection often, but how else would Nintendo be sure only one license is being used? Any publisher would have major concerns if this wasn't the case.
Yea, we need this info stat.
I know this is only hourly and only Amazon, but still seems good to know people is putting their money to good use
Okay, so if I logged into my account on my GF's Switch, could she play my digital games on her account or would she have to be logged into mine?
I'm not faulting Nintendo for the limitations here. I'm just saying with the system being portable, the always online tether kind of kills this functionality for me. It's too bad we can't have something like the old PSN game sharing before they made it more restrictive, but again I understand why they changed it.
The way I look at is, I'm looking to maybe get my kid his own Switch but the second we go on vacation, that secondary system would be cut off from usage with digital games. At least with carts we can pass the cart back and forth even if only one person can play at a time. For multiplatform games, one of the primary reason why I would buy a Switch version is because of portability. If I'm not going to play it portable, I may as well buy it on my PS4 or XBO. So again, that online tether really hurts the usage for me.
You would put your account on her Switch and you would have to make her Switch your primary console for your account in order for her to use her profile with your games. Then for your system being the secondary, you would always have to be online.
If her Switch is marked as a secondary console (to you), then all she needs is to use your account to play your digital games.
This is actually like a puzzle. It's really hard until you repeat the rules again and again.
Understandable. Physical and digital game sharing have their benefits and drawbacks. In that scenario a cart is definitely the way to go.
Just disable it? You can change it per title to whatever configuration you want.
So would it be possible to play wireless local coop games across 2 switches while using only 1 account? For example would I be able to set up my account on a friends switch, then download RE Revelations 2 on that switch then swap over to my Switch turn off the wifi and then play raid mode local wireless coop where we'd each have our own screen? Because that would be awesome if that was the case.
This is better than nothing, I guess. But I think this is only fine for games that have multiple save slots or games where sharing progress is not a big deal, e.g. Mario Kart, etc. But for games like BOTW, you can't start a new save on the secondary device as that might wipe your existing progress. Or am I wrong about this?
Well, you could probably get around this by not backing up your save on the cloud.
Well, you could probably get around this by not backing up your save on the cloud.
Once every 6 months on PS4, I think.
It's not for fear of breaking my Switch. At most this "feature" is a simple API call that clears a flag tied to your console's MAC address or something. The only reason they make it so (arbitrarily) limited is because they can get away with it
im sure im missing something, but this just seems like signing in on another system, redownloading your games, and playing them on one or the other system?
Yeah everything was megaton but definitely this.
I like the new Nintendo. Giving me hope.