Nintendo Switch Lite guide: How to share digital games

Nintendo has released a revised version of its hybrid home/handheld Switch console called the Switch Lite. And this has led to a number of people encountering one of the tricky aspects of our culture’s collective shift to digital media: How do you share games?

With physical media, we all know and understand the limitations. You can hand a game to your family member, but then you can’t play it — obviously. With digital, you can’t just hand something to a friend, child, or sibling. But we should still have the option to share our purchases with people in our lives, right? I think so, and it turns out that Nintendo agrees (so does Microsoft and Sony).