The latest update to Nintendo Switch disables popular game sharing vulnerabilities

After revealing the concept in the concept Nintendo Direct in late Marchthis Virtual game card update For the original Nintendo Switch has Dead now. However, the report now surfaced, with the update's vulnerability that allows multiple switch systems to share a digital copy of an online game has been closed, which forces each to switch to now have its own copy of the game.

according to EUROGAMERBefore the update, if a Nintendo account is logged into two separate switching devices, these devices can launch games owned by that account and play online together. With new updates, if one switch has started the game and is playing the game online, the other switch will no longer be able to join them.

Eurogamer reports have found a workaround that will allow two switch systems to play the same game through the new online license option in the console settings, although there is no online game. To do this, when sending a virtual game card from one switch to another, the online license option must be activated on both game consoles. Then:

• The switch console that receives virtual game cards must play games offline
• This will allow the switch console that sends the game card to play the same game, because the console cannot recognize offline games, so the virtual game card used by the console that receives it will not be able to “see” the virtual game card used by the console that receives it.

Several online forums including Resetera and Reddit expressed dissatisfaction with this, one of which reddit user attention Now, this will force families with multiple switch systems to purchase a copy of the game for each switch to continue playing online. “With two kids, game sharing saved us a lot of money because each digital game is actually two copies,” user Synkhe wrote. “This update doubled our cost in all games.”

Nintendo also announced Game console functions Nintendo Switch 2 will be available when it launches on June 5. However, this feature is only available for certain games and is only available when connecting each switch to the same local network.