Topic: Nintendo Virtual Game Cards opt out?

Well, this is a disaster and a half. This system seems to be an active downgrade to the system we currently have, and seems incredibly anti-consumer. However, there does appear to be some hope. There was fine print at the end of the video reading ""By navigating to User Settings ⇒ Online-License Settings and turning the setting to ON, you can instead opt to connect to the internet to start up software." I'm not really following what this means though. Any thoughts on the interpretation would be appreciated.

So translating the Japanese version of the text, it does seem to indicate the old system will still be available. It seems to be much more clear than the English version, as it specifically mentions the "conventional/traditional" way. So yeah, thank goodness for that.

While we're on the topic, apparently the small print makes reference to "Nintendo Switch 2 games" and "Nintendo Switch 2 Edition games".

Hopefully this implies you'll be able to upgrade your Switch 1 games to their Switch 2 versions?? ...And hopefully at little to no cost

I really didn't understand the feature.
Even now we had a way by linking our account to a new console so the new console can play ALL of our digital catalog. We did it with friends and family. So that this new sharing offers more?

I mean I certainly can't trust someone to know how this system works who doesn't even know how to edit their own post.

@kkslider5552000 Well good for you I guess?

@Flugen
The previous system required you to define one of your systems as your primary console which would allow you to play all of your games offline on that one system. On other systems you could play these games if you setup your account on then but you had to be online to verify first. So if you had a Switch OLED as your primary console and a Switch Lite for on the go you had to find WiFi before you could play any digital games on your Lite

This new system is different in that it sets the primary console per game rather than per system. So you can choose to have BotW on your OLED and Wonder on your Lite. Neither has to ever go online to play those games and other accounts on that console can freely access those games. It behaves as if it was your primary console

Additionally you can choose to lend a game to someone on your family account for two weeks. Without having to login to your account on that console (but this transfer does have to be local). When you do this it behaves as if they own the game

It's pretty good I think. Not as good as something like Steam's family sharing which is entirely open. But still, pretty damn good. And definitely a step in the right direction