Nintendo limits a game-sharing loophole as it introduces Virtual Game Cards

The Nintendo Switch conscionable got a new update that adds Virtual Game Cards arsenic a mode to stock integer games with different people. But the update besides closes a loophole that would fto you play shared games online astatine the aforesaid clip arsenic idiosyncratic you were sharing the crippled with, arsenic reported by Eurogamer.

Before the instauration of Virtual Game Cards, the lone mode Nintendo allowed you to stock integer Switch games was by logging into your Nintendo Account connected a 2nd Switch and downloading the crippled to that console. Using that system, which is present disposable nether “Online License Settings,” it was imaginable for you and a person to play that crippled that you owned online simultaneously. 

Following the caller Switch update, that integer sharing strategy is inactive an enactment – you don’t person to usage Virtual Game Cards. However, with the aged system, 2 radical can’t play a shared crippled online astatine the aforesaid clip anymore, which could beryllium a disappointment if you relied connected it up of this update.

If you bash opt to usage Virtual Game Cards, Nintendo won’t conscionable unit you to negociate those connected a Switch oregon Switch 2; the institution volition besides fto you negociate them from a website, which could beryllium useful if you don’t person your Switch adjacent but privation to stock a game.