Virtual Game Card – Nintendo Direct 3.27.2025
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The new Virtual Game Card feature lets you easily manage your digital Nintendo Switch games, including lending to your Nintendo Account Family Group members!...

This was way more confusing than it had to be.

TL;DR: You can lend your digital games to friends & family for 14 days, but both consoles need to connect locally to enable this…(?)

You can’t play digital games you’ve lent out during this time. I guess the point is making it similar to giving your friend a physical game cartridge.

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I don’t get why they needed a 14 day limit. Sounds half baked to me. Steam, although with its own limitations, still does a better job at game sharing.

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Because if they don’t then you can essentially just give a game away, and that means less sales

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