It looks like Nintendo Switch game downloads won’t be shareable across multiple consoles. Purchases made via the Nintendo eShop can only be accessed on a single system at a time, based on comments made by Shinya Takahashi – Nintendo’s General Manager of Entertainment Planning & Development. The dialogue between Takahashi and a consumer in regard to this matter is as follows:
Consumer: “If I want to take my system with me… if I were to buy a digital game, could I buy it once, or would I have to buy it multiple times so they can use those games?”
Takahashi: “Currently we don’t have a system like that in place for Nintendo Switch, but we haven’t made any final decisions about how we would approach that going forward in the future, so unfortunately I can’t provide any concrete answer for you right now.”
what?
Seconded. Why can’t anyone just ask the question that matters:
“If I bought a Virtual Console game on Wii U, do I have to buy it again on Switch?”
To the media people covering the Switch: It’s not rocket science. You’re a journalist. Start acting like one.
But… There is no Virtual Console on the Switch, so your question is not really relevant – at least not yet. I would like to know the same thing though, when & if Nintendo ever makes the move to make Virtual Console available on the Switch. Based on the post however, they may force you to transfer it so that you can only actually have the games on one system or the other – who knows.
When I posted my comment last night, Nintendo hadn’t announced yet that VC wouldn’t be available on Switch.
Glad somebody finally asked the question.
Basically the PS4 style DRM, 1 console at a time.
Makes perfect sense to me. There’s no reason anyone should have more than one console for themselves to even need to have this feature available.
At a time. How much time does it take to transfer then?
I think one minute.
Well obviously or you could just have all your friends share the same ID and only have to buy one game for multiple people which would be stupid for business purposes.
Exactly.
Confusion here, confusion there, confusion everywhere!
You get a confusion! And you get a confusion!
I believe you guys are missing the point! the question is, if have this game on my switch and my friend doesn’t can he play with me on his switch? the answer is no…he would have to own a copy too
That’s a good thing because it prevents what the PS3 did with up to 5 people sharing a game for the longest time
what about a “download play” type feature?
Nintendo doesn’t find value in selling digital downloads at the same price as retail obviously or they would have given us a bigger internal memory. Once again they work against logic.
Yes, because that internal memory is free to manufacture, so why not give us 10TB, right?!? You guys want this thing to be inexpensive, more powerful than a PS4, super light weight, have an all day battery and run cool to the touch. Maybe you should have more reasonable expectations?
Well that’s too bad. I guess we have to get the physical copys then.
But what difference would that make since you could still only have it on one system at any given time? I prefer physical copies to digital anyway – Digital has more hoops to jump through to get a game moved from one system to another.
Oh really? So, digital downloads means nothing to you?.
Doesn’t Steam do the same/ a similarthing where you have to log out of your account on one console to be able to login on another?
I don’t see why people are confused by this. You can’t by the game, and share copies of it to other systems. Plain and simple.
I would think that it’s obvious, as you can use a cartridge on one system per time. Obviously one account per time, not just the system, otherwise would be old broken way.
I see no controversy here.
So if I bought a game for my Nintendo Switch, it will be assigned to that particular console? Not to my account? What if I have two Switches – will I be able to buy a game and download it to both consoles? Right now I have two PS4s – one in the living room, and one in my mancave. I can buy a game and have it downloaded and available for both systems. The same goes for Xbox. I hope Nintendo will follow this route as well.
Eventually you can have just one Account active on any Switch, no multiple Switch per account I presume.
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That question made absolutely no sense.
Haha! I thought I was the only one that was thinking that.
Switch seems like a very good single person console. Not as much a party console (although some games work very well in that manner).
Does anyone know of game saves will be tied to our account?
Nintendo Switch Game Downloads Can’t Be Shared Across Multiple Consoles
then the article starts with It looks like…
so, it is a rumor or a fact?
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