But in some cases, it is less restrictive than buying one physical copy. And if you don’t get a connection to re-validate your account within three hours, the game automatically closes. If you go offline (like on a plane or subway), you cannot Switch to another game. Secondary Switch: Your account can only launch games when you have an online connection.Primary Switch: Your account can launch any game offline or online and can play them without limit.The primary Switch gets all privileges to launch games whether online or offline. That’s great, but the problem is that you can only set one of your devices as the primary console for your game-owning account. So if you go from one Switch to another, you can sign in and access all of your game purchases. I’m going to try to explain this as simply as possible. This is one of those problems that everyone with multiple Switch systems is going to face. The challenges Primary systems and online checks So we’ll use those categories.įirst, however, we need to explore the problems and benefits of juggling digital purchases across multiple accounts and Switch systems.
Owning games on one account across multiple devices is very different if you are one, two, or three-plus people. So I’m going to try to go over a handful of common situations to talk about how sharing works (or doesn’t).īecause sharing games is often predicated on our relationships, I’m going to break this down based on common family/friend situations. But the way that Nintendo handles the digital-sharing conundrum is far less intuitive than with a game card or disc.
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