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Nintendo unveils Virtual Game Cards for the Switch for family sharing

Published on: 2025-05-27 10:37:00

Nintendo unveiled its Virtual Game Cards for the Nintendo Switch, a new way to share digital games coming in late April. It’s a new way to use digital games across Switch systems. With game cards, you can put a physical card into a Switch and change it to another system. The Virtual Game Card makes digital games just as flexible. The company made the announcement during its Nintendo Direct event, ahead of next week’s big Nintendo Switch 2 showcase on April 2. In the future, when you buy a digital system of a game, it is loaded as a Virtual Game Card on a dedicated management screen. You can virtually load and eject your Virtual Game Cards. This will work for both the Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Switch 2 systems. You can load a card on one system and play it. You can also eject that Virtual Game Card from one Switch and load it onto the second system. Then you can play it on the second system wherever and whenever you want. You can play a Virtual Game Card on up to two systems. Yo ... Read full article.