After this concept was revealed during the Nintendo Directorate at the end of March, the update of the virtual game card for the original Nintendo Switch is now flowing. However, reports are now highlighting that in addition to this update, a very high switch system has been shut down a flaw that allows a digital copy to distribute a digital copy of a game for online play, which forcing each switch now to own its own copy.
According to UrugmerBefore the update, if the same Nintendo account is logged into two separate switch devices, both devices can boot a game in this account ownership and play it online together. With a new update, if one switch is a gameboat and playing online, the other is not able to join them.
The Urugmer report has discovered a job that will allow the two switch system to play the same game, though without online games, through a new option of online licenses in console settings. Wheen to work, when a virtual game card is sent from one switch to another, the online license options must be activated on both consoles. Then:
- Virtual Game Card Received switch console game should play offline
- This will allow the switch console that allows the game card to play the same game, as the console does not recognize the offline play, and therefore the virtual game card in use by the console it receives will not be able to “watch”.
Multiple online forums, including Researcia and Reddit, have expressed their displeasure with the change, with a Reddit user noting It will now force more than one switch system to buy families playing online for each switch. “With two children, the game sharing saved us a lot of money, because every digital game was effectively two copies,” the user writes. “This update doubles our costs on all moving sports.”
Nintendo has also announced a feature of the game share that will be available with Nintendo Switch 2 when launching on June 5. However, this feature will only be available for some sports, and it will work only when each switch console is connected to the same local network.
