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I assume this will be a deeply unpopular opinion, but I don’t really see an issue with this?
If you buy a game physically you can’t have the cartridge inserted in two consoles at the same time. Why would the digital version work any differently?
That's good marketing on Nintendo's part. You could play on two devices before.
But, again, this is physically impossible with an actual cartridge. The fact it worked with digital copies was just a loophole that they have now closed, surely?
Hard to call it a "loophole" when it was listed on Nintendo's own website less than two weeks ago.
You can check it by making these choices:
I only own a single Switch so I never used this, but considering they listed this officially before I'd say the compaints about downgrade are 100% reasonable.
Depends who you ask. Users said it was a feature, nintendo says loophole.
Hows it a loophole when it's on their site.
Like I said, it's upto Nintendo what they wanna say. For users, it was a feature.
It sounds like a version of nintendo ds game share, though I never heard of it until now. I only own a wii
https://youtu.be/Y_dBW7ktcbE
If we're talking about the same thing, DS game sharing (download play I think?) did not share whole games and was not used for many games. Something almost identical already existed on GBA (though using a cable instead of wifi).
The idea was to upload a stripped version of the game to other DSs and let them join a limited multiplayer. Like, you could play Mario Kart, but players without the cartridge had only one character or you could only select certain tracks (on GBA at least). Sometimes game sharing was used for multiplayer minigames, while the main game was only playable with the cartridge.
This sounds more like the new thing they've advertized with Switch 2 being able to share select multiplayer games with other Switches, not the virtual game cards stuff. Though I don't know whether those will be limited like GBA and DS did.