{"id":63926,"date":"2025-04-30T21:20:11","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T21:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/63926\/"},"modified":"2025-04-30T21:20:11","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T21:20:11","slug":"nintendo-limits-a-game-sharing-loophole-as-it-introduces-virtual-game-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/63926\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo limits a game-sharing loophole as it introduces Virtual Game Cards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">The Nintendo Switch just got a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/658511\/nintendo-switch-20-0-0-update-virtual-game-card-gameshare-switch-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new update<\/a> that adds Virtual Game Cards as a way to share digital games with other people. But the update also closes a loophole that would let you play shared games online at the same time as somebody you were sharing the game with, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/switch-users-say-virtual-game-cards-are-a-downgrade-as-online-game-sharing-changes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported by Eurogamer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Before the introduction of Virtual Game Cards, the only way Nintendo allowed you to share digital Switch games was by logging into your Nintendo Account on a second Switch and downloading the game to that console. Using that system, which is now available under \u201cOnline License Settings,\u201d it was possible for you and a friend to play that game that you owned online simultaneously. <\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Following the new Switch update, that digital sharing system is still an option \u2013 you don\u2019t have to use Virtual Game Cards. However, with the old system, two people can\u2019t play a shared game online at the same time anymore, which could be a disappointment if you relied on it ahead of this update.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">If you do opt to use Virtual Game Cards, Nintendo won\u2019t just force you to manage those on a Switch or Switch 2; the company will also let you manage them from <a href=\"https:\/\/accounts.nintendo.com\/portal\/vgcs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a website<\/a>, which could be handy if you don\u2019t have your Switch nearby but want to share a game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Nintendo Switch just got a new update that adds Virtual Game Cards as a way to share&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63927,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[77,1583,12,128,53,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-63926","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-gaming","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-nintendo","12":"tag-technology","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114429009919557595","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}