{"id":89228,"date":"2026-09-11T11:04:40","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T15:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=89228"},"modified":"2026-09-11T11:41:47","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T15:41:47","slug":"switch-2-update-secretly-makes-digital-game-sharing-much-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=89228","title":{"rendered":"Switch 2 Update Secretly Makes Digital Game Sharing Much Better"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Everyone is focused on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/nintendo-adds-vrr-to-docked-nintendo-switch-2-play-in-the-most-annoying-way\/\">VRR (variable refresh rate) support for Switch 2 while docked<\/a>. But the latest system update just provided a notable quality-of-life improvement for people&#8211;especially families&#8211;who own multiple Switch 2 and Switch consoles. Nintendo now allows for you to play a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/nintendo-switch-virtual-game-cards-will-let-you-share-digital-games\/1100-6530424\/\">virtual game card<\/a> on one of your devices without both having to be online. Previously, you&#8217;d need both hybrid consoles connected to the internet if you tried to play a digital title while it was &#8220;stored&#8221; on another.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For example, say your child is playing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/reviews\/super-mario-bros-wonder-review-a-badge-of-honor\/1900-6418136\/\">Super Mario Bros. Wonder<\/a> on your old Switch OLED, but you want to play it on your Switch 2. You both can actually play the title simultaneously by turning off Wi-Fi on the original hybrid console. Then, on your Switch 2, you can utilize an online license to jump around as the mustached plumber, too. We tested this out successfully.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This also helps a lot between manually sending virtual game cards back and forth between Switch and Switch 2 systems. Now I can just start say, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/reviews\/blasphemous-review-darker-souls\/1900-6417310\/\">Blasphemous<\/a>, on either system without having to actually send it from the previous place to a new one. Sure, it&#8217;s not as smooth as using apps<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone is focused on VRR (variable refresh rate) support for Switch 2 while docked. But the latest system update just provided a notable quality-of-life improvement for people&#8211;especially families&#8211;who own multiple Switch 2 and Switch consoles. Nintendo now allows for you to play a virtual game card on one of your devices without both having to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":89230,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89228"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89228"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89231,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89228\/revisions\/89231"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/89230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}