{"id":92843,"date":"2026-11-10T09:27:46","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T14:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=92843"},"modified":"2026-11-10T10:40:43","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T15:40:43","slug":"nintendos-new-gift-giving-feature-comes-with-some-very-nintendo-restrictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=92843","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo\u2019s New Gift-Giving Feature Comes With Some Very Nintendo Restrictions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A new update is available for all Nintendo Switch 2 and Switch consoles, and if you&#8217;re on a Nintendo Account family plan, version 23.5.0 will allow you to once again gift games to members in your group.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Just in time for the holidays, a new feature will let family group members gift digital games to other members of their group,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendo.com\/us\/whatsnew\/coming-soon-gift-digital-games-to-family-group-members\/\">Nintendo wrote in an update<\/a>. &#8220;You will be able to gift digital products that you purchase through Nintendo eShop on your device to family group members. This includes eligible games as well as DLC and upgrade packs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure data-wp-interactive=\"core\/image\" class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-ref-id=\"1954417\" data-wp-on--click=\"actions.core.image.showLightbox\" style=\"cursor: zoom-in\" height=\"576\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Nintendo-Gift-1.jpg?w=636\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1954417\" \/>A closer look at Digital Gifting on Switch 2.  <\/p>\n<figure data-wp-interactive=\"core\/image\" class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-ref-id=\"1954421\" data-wp-on--click=\"actions.core.image.showLightbox\" style=\"cursor: zoom-in\" height=\"576\" width=\"1024\" data-id=\"1954421\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Nintendo-Gift-2.jpg?w=636\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1954421\" \/> <\/p>\n<figure data-wp-interactive=\"core\/image\" class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-ref-id=\"1954418\" data-wp-on--click=\"actions.core.image.showLightbox\" style=\"cursor: zoom-in\" height=\"576\" width=\"1024\" data-id=\"1954418\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Nintendo-Gift-3.jpg?w=636\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1954418\" \/> <\/p>\n<figure data-wp-interactive=\"core\/image\" class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-ref-id=\"1954419\" data-wp-on--click=\"actions.core.image.showLightbox\" style=\"cursor: zoom-in\" height=\"576\" width=\"1024\" data-id=\"1954419\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Nintendo-Gift-4.jpg?w=636\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1954419\" \/> <\/p>\n<figure data-wp-interactive=\"core\/image\" class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-ref-id=\"1954422\" data-wp-on--click=\"actions.core.image.showLightbox\" style=\"cursor: zoom-in\" height=\"576\" width=\"1024\" data-id=\"1954422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Nintendo-Gift-5.jpg?w=636\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1954422\" \/> <\/p>\n<figure data-wp-interactive=\"core\/image\" class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-ref-id=\"1954420\" data-wp-on--click=\"actions.core.image.showLightbox\" style=\"cursor: zoom-in\" height=\"576\" width=\"1024\" data-id=\"1954420\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Nintendo-Gift-6.jpg?w=636\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1954420\" \/> <\/p>\n<figure data-wp-interactive=\"core\/image\" class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">&lt;img data-ref-id=&quot;1954423&quot;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new update is available for all Nintendo Switch 2 and Switch consoles, and if you&#8217;re on a Nintendo Account family plan, version 23.5.0 will allow you to once again gift games to members in your group. &#8220;Just in time for the holidays, a new feature will let family group members gift digital games to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":92845,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92843","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\/92843"}],"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\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92843"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92846,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92843\/revisions\/92846"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/92845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}