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Topic: Redownload games purchased in a different region

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tuta1986

Hi, all.

So, I live in Germany and my Nintendo account region is originally Germany. I heard about the possibility to change regions in order to be able to took advantage of some promotions and etc.

I found a game I wanted in the Canada store and it was costing 40% of the price in Germany, so I've switched my account region to Canada, created a Canadian PayPal account, added my German credit card to PayPal, bought the game and then switched the Nintendo account region back to Germany.

The game downloaded just fine, I was able to play it normally this morning. All the other games I have seems to be working just fine too, so it seems the process did work as expected.

I know most of people just create a Nintendo account in each country, add the account to the console and then purchase to this account, but I don't really want to have like 5 accounts in my Switch, so I prefer just changing the region, buying and switching back to the original account right after.

But there are some thing that are not clear for me yet, so I was hoping you can help me.

For example, in the case I need to format my Switch, will I be able to download in the German eShop the game I've purchased in Canada? Will this game show as "Owned" so I can just redownload it?

These account region changes affects the purchases in some level? I mean, currently my account has 2 purchases in the history: the Zelda DLC (made while the account region was Germany) and the Fifa 18 (made while the account region was Canada). Can this cause any trouble in the future?

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tuta1986

gcunit

@tuta1986 So far, there is no problem in doing what you've done. The purchase is linked to your account and ignores which country your account was registered to at the time of purchase. So you could format your Switch and redownload all games bought under your account, regardless of which country's version of the eshop you bought them in.

Whether that will always be the case though...no guarantees there.

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TTgowings

Can you link multiple Nintendo accounts to the same PayPal account ?

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SwitchForce

@TTgowings I can't see why you can't since it's not a Nintendo accounts so unless there is some kinda verification check and that might stop it.

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