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Nintendo will soon let you loan your digital games to your friends | Starting in late April digital games will work more like physical media


For the first time ever, Nintendo is hosting two Nintendo Direct events almost back-to-back. The first was today, featuring everything coming to the Switch (masthead). The second...

Why it matters: Digital game purchases offer the convenience of instant gratification without leaving your couch, but they lack the portability of physical media. Users with a second Switch can quickly transfer purchased games back and forth after a one-time local verification handshake between devices. Nintendo Virtual Cards are coming to first-gen systems in late April via a software update and will be available on Switch 2 at release.

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