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.

Owl
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You can lend games on steam ???

thermal_shock
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Yup! Not all, but most. Some with high levels of cheaters block family sharing, like RUST

Uninvited Guest
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Family sharing I presume. I’m not entirely familiar with the scope of the service myself as I’ve only just set up family sharing with my child. But when I did, they had a huge catalog of games in their own steam account as a result.

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