Nintendo unveiled its Virtual Game Cards for the Nintendo Switch, a new way to share digital games coming in late April.
It’s a new way to use digital games across Switch systems. With game cards, you can put a physical card into a Switch and change it to another system.
The Virtual Game Card makes digital games just as flexible. The company made the announcement during its Nintendo Direct event, ahead of next week’s big Nintendo Switch 2 showcase on April 2.
In the future, when you buy a digital system of a game, it is loaded as a Virtual Game Card on a dedicated management screen. You can virtually load and eject your Virtual Game Cards. This will work for both the Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Switch 2 systems.
You can load a card on one system and play it. You can also eject that Virtual Game Card from one Switch and load it onto the second system.
Then you can play it on the second system wherever and whenever you want. You can play a Virtual Game Card on up to two systems. You manage which games you can play on the system.
If you have two Nintendo Switch Systems, you can load a game on both systems and play on either Switch. You need a local connection between the two systems, only for the first time.
You can also lend out a Virtual Game Card to a family network, via local wireless with your family group system. You say who you are lending it to and then they can play it on their system.
You can eject one game at a time and lend it out for two weeks. After that, it will automatically return to you.