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Topic: What happens if you Insert a physical Cartridge for a game you got digitally?

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Willax

Had this kind of question, along with a few variants of the question as well. I want to know if anyone's spent the cash to find out the answer to this question, because i have no idea who else to ask.
-Suppose you have a game on Switch Digitally. Then you put in the physical cartridge of that game. What happens?
-What about if you delete or archive the digital game and then put in a Cartridge of that game, updating it too? What happens then?
-And let's have a little fun here- What happens if you get the game physically, delete the data saved on the console for the cartridge, and then buy the game digitally? What happens then?
I'm just curious, is all, and i don't have the cash to check this kind of thing myself.

Willax

Eel

The game will simply default to the physical version whenever that’s available.

Having the cartridge will also, of course, remove the play restrictions on secondary consoles as long as the cartridge is inserted.

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Octane

The paradox will create a space-time loophole that destroys the universe. So just don't.

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WoomyNNYes

@Willax Just bolstering what Eel said:

The short answer is, nothing bad happens if you insert a cartridge for a game you already own digitally. And nothing bad will happen if you own the game physically, but buy digitally later on.

If you have both physical & digital, the switch will play the game from the cart when the cart is inserted. The switch doesn't care where the game comes from. The save data is stored separately from the game on the Switch's internal memory. So, you don't have to worry about changing from physical to digital, or digital to physical. It doesn't matter which you owned first.

If you bought dlc for the game, the dlc will still work. DLC ownership is tied to your nintendo account and is stored on your micro sd card (if you have one) or on Switch internal memory.

SIde note: Save data and dlc are not saved onto the switch game cards/carts.

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Atomic77

Having Physical games I think would be a major benefit especially if down the road you get another switch. having digital games makes it harder.

Atomic77
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markmarkmark

This was actually a very good and insightful question for me, especially those people that don't want to experiment. 😅

Octane wrote:

The paradox will create a space-time loophole that destroys the universe. So just don't.

gcunit wrote:

I heard about a boy who tried this once. His parents didn't find the body for 4 days, about 600m away, upside down in a hedge. They never found the head.

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SwitchForce

Atomic77 wrote:

Having Physical games I think would be a major benefit especially if down the road you get another switch. having digital games makes it harder.

Not really all you do and login to your NOA and redownloaded or Redownload on the Switch with your account again. But that would mean you need internet Wifi to do this as oppose to Cart you can play but eventually you will need update it it has one.

SwitchForce

SwitchForce

Willax wrote:

-Suppose you have a game on Switch Digitally. Then you put in the physical cartridge of that game. What happens?

Guess you meet yourself on the same time and space. And say I know you.

SwitchForce

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