Nintendo Direct 3.27.2025 – Nintendo Switch
Nintendo Direct 3.27.2025 – Nintendo Switch
This is one Direct before the Nintendo Switch 2 Direct on April 2nd that’s coming up soon
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Being able to let your friends play your digital games is pretty cool. The implementation seems fair.
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Do you think so? First, it seems a cumbersome feature. Second, you are NOT the owner of the game since you do not even have the possibility to sell the game, should you wish to.
I can see the advantage over regular DRM games, where you can lend the games. But depending on the price range nothing beats having the physical cartridge.
And that's why I love GOG. It would have been interesting if you can completely transfer the ownership of the virtual card, but I don't think Nintendo will permit such thing.
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If I want to own the game I can always buy the cartridge.
For me personally, I buy about 80% of my switch games digitally. I'm not someone who replays games. The ease of access is to me a known and worthy trade-off to not owning the game and essentially only renting it till their servers shut down.
Only the games I know that I want to revisit I'll buy on cartridge. That way I don't fill up my shelves with games I'll never touch again. (I also don't like dealing with selling games through eBay. It's a hassle and I've had some bad experiences)
I have however had a few times where I wish I bought the cartridge not so I can replay it myself, but so that I can share it with a friend who seems interested but is not willing to pay full price for something they're not sure they'll like. So for me this feature is something I'll actually use. And it seems fair that the limits are trying to mimic mostly the same limits you'll have when sharing a cartridge.
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