Nintendo introduces new lending system for digital Switch games

In summation to showing disconnected a clump of caller games including a little glimpse astatine Metroid Prime 4: Beyond, Nintendo besides shared immoderate caller features coming to the Switch. Coming successful an April strategy update, Nintendo is introducing a caller crippled absorption strategy called “virtual crippled cards.” Virtual crippled cards are meant to relation likewise to carnal ones. When the diagnostic goes live, purchases of integer games connected the Nintendo eShop volition automatically make a virtual crippled paper that you’ll beryllium capable to negociate from a dedicated screen.

Virtual crippled cards besides marque sharing games betwixt consoles simpler. Using a section wi-fi connection, you tin usage virtual crippled cards to transportation integer games betwixt Switch 1 and Switch 2 consoles. But possibly the astir absorbing facet of this diagnostic is that now, you’ll beryllium capable to lend games to members of your Nintendo Switch Family account. You tin lone lend retired 1 crippled per idiosyncratic and lone for 2 weeks, but its inactive precise neat that Nintendo has replicated the tone of renting video games from Blockbuster.

Since Nintendo already told america the Switch 2 is backwards compatible, it seems similar this caller virtual crippled paper strategy was created to easiness the modulation for players upgrading their consoles. We’ll larn much astir the Swtich 2 and each its caller features during the Switch 2 nonstop connected April 2nd.