You'll Be Able To Use Your Nintendo Account On Multiple Nintendo Switch Consoles

If this is true - they will sell another switch - only reason I haven't bought my wife one is that we would need to rebuy all the games.

If we can share legitimately as a family our digital purchases that's a massive leap for Nintendo...

Is that what this could mean?? massive news for families buying multiple devices too surely...

Welcome to the 21st century, Nintendo!

Regarding Google Play Music, you can be logged into it on several devices, you just can't stream from more than one device at a time.

Games with Online features :
1. Smash Bros Switch
2. Splatoon 2
3. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
4. ARMS
5. Arena of Valor
Etc.
I hope Nintendo Network is Strong enough to handle those games after being a Paid Online Service.

I`m not to hopeful...I love Nintendo, but they will f..k it up somehow.

@MrMac this is the biggest drawback to me as well. Nintendo does so much right with their games but so much wrong with the basic features and online. I'm still hopeful that theres more to be revealed or theyre working on things like proper voice chat, friends list, messaging system, etc.

Excellent news!

You may sign in with the Nintendo Account that purchased the membership, but I highly doubt you can download your digital Splatoon 2 on another Switch without any additional cost. Come on

It's already possible. Official FAQ:

You can link your Nintendo Account to multiple consoles. However, you can only activate one console per Nintendo Account. Games that you’ve downloaded with your Nintendo Account will only be playable on the one active console for your account.

So nothing special. Only physical copies or switching between active consoles.

Be nice just to access my arms in arms or weapons and clothes in splatoon 2. Or resident evil rev 2 guns and items. This is a great thing

@SuperCharlie78
Yes you can. I've got all my digital games on 2 separate Switches. You can have you games on 1,000 different devices if you want. You can just only use one at a time

This article is wrong, btw. You can already sign in on any device, and they mentioned nothing of anything changing, like signing in at the same time

You can already do this. I don't think any of this is new info.

PLEASE, let me me change (or hide) the country flag in online games (like Mario Kart).

There is a small change indicated here, which is like allowing you to play on any console, but is really leveraged through the cloud save feature. So with the change you can have all your saves on all your consoles, and just use the one that has the digital content you want. For example, you could use one switch for physical games and one switch for digital games across multiple users/accounts, rather than having your saves locked to one and having to activate/deactivate primary switch's to give access to digital content. I don't, however, think this means they'll let you have more than one primary switch for digital content, but it gives you more flexibility to manage this across multiple players in your household.

The catch: "You can only signed in on one Switch at a time."

I expect Nintendo will probably restrict you to signing into one system at a time.

Since when is this new? My account is already on all my friends Switchs?! I just signed in there and it stays there and I can play there.
Edit: ah, ok, I can download my games on every console then. That's nice.

I can see my kids getting their own switch at some point. Then they'll be able to use all digital purchases. One of the only downsides of the digital realm for me will be over at that point.

@Damo "you'd be able to have more than one Switch console and play the same games on each one".

We're already able to do that. You can login in multiple Switches and have all your games in both.

You can only download/play softwares from accounts which are active in the device, but you can manually deactivate in eShop settings and activate the other Switch by opening eShop with that account. All its remaining is transfer saves without transfering the whole profile...

LMAO it doesn't say that at all, gosh the writers are bad, it says the online is attached to the account and not the device.

you could always delete your account on one console, add to a different and re-download your games

Seems like this new hot spun a little out of control. I didn’t see it mentioned that you could sign into one Nintendo ID on multiple Switches at once and play online simultaneously nor did they mention being able to access your Switch library on multiple consoles just be signing in. Not sure why some many are making these assumptions.

I wonder if this will be a "work around" on having more than one save file for pokemon games (playing on one console I mean), or if the saves will be on the cart.

This comment was originally supposed to be about the multi switch functionality... oops

what about the other way around? if I download a "nintendo classic" in my switch, could any other user in my console play it?

@Anti-Matter it will be no different to now. The system uses a player to player online and that won't change once you start paying.

@Supadav03 looks more like nintendolife getting people's hopes up!
Tho it's hard to take all this bad news in one day.
No improved voice chat.
No VC

@Damo "assuming it does run like on smartphones" I think you're taking a pretty big logical leap there. Certainly if that's the case, you're on point, but I wouldn't be surprised if this answer doesn't mean what you think it means and Nintendo's "solution" turns out to be more convoluted and less user friendly.

@Lord honestly neither of those bother me much. Would love improved, no app needed voice chat but based on my interactions online with my Playstation sometimes it’s nice NOT to hear the explitive filled rants of others. VC is inconsequential to me. I have a 2DS, NES mini, SNES mini and my Wii U filled with clsssic games plus there will be some included with the Switch online service and more added over time. That’s plenty to tide me over, especially with all these new experiences coming to Switch & other consoles. I get more is better than less, but it’s not a big enough deal for me to get bothered by.

My partner and I each have our Switch, but the fact that we can't (yet) transfer/share games and save files between systems is really annoying. Also, it'd be really cool if we could play co-op games each on our own screen without having to buy them twice (which I don't do, I mostly don't even buy them once if it's co-op I want and it requires a double purchase)

@Stocksy I think it only means signing into your account from another system. Like the PS4, Nintendo will probably make us select our primary Switch and that will be the system that has access to digital purchases.

However, I've been begging for some kind of family purchase plan for games. I have two sons. It would be nice to not have to buy three versions of the same game so that we can play it together. I would be happy with "download play" or even spending some extra money to be able to only purchase a single game once and have it on all of our family's systems.

@Shambo Me too! We purchased multiple copies of Splatoon 2 so that we can play together.....it sucks and I wish they would fix it.

My first thought was that this is too far a departure from their current business model to be true. I am a 3-Switch household and am really irritated that I had to create 2 new accounts and several copies of some games just to play digital content across them.

However, this could be just the value proposition they are looking for to get all segments of their consumer base to adopt the new online service. Its not free. So there has to be good reason for people of all play types to buy in. Not everyone cares to play online. Or to voice chat. But a lot of people do care about playing across multiple devices and cloud saves as well.

Could be true!!

@Stocksy Nope, no digital shared purchases, you'll only share the suscription online for $35. You can only "share" you digital games if the account that bought them is linked to the system, and since it can only be active in one system at the same time, there's no way to share games between systems.

My guess is it would work more like PS4. Where you can have your account on multiple PS4s but signed in on one at a time. However one is the main and on the main other accounts on that unit can use the main accounts games. But on the second unit your account is not the main and must be signed in online in order to use your games. And the main unit can’t be signed in to your account but the other accounts can still use the content at the same time.

What's with the piss jug that appears to have been superimposed over the foreground of the header image?

Okay, time to actually read the article.

"you'd be able to have more than one Switch console and play the same games on each one"
@Damo But... you can already do that!
You can redownload the games you've purchased on another Switch if you login there with your account. The only thing you can't do right now is have more than one active Switch for that account (and no cloud saves, of course).

@Stocksy
Hm? You should already be able to do that. Just sign in on the second Switch with your account (i.e. the one that owns the games), download them with that account and then play them with your wife's account.

@SpeedRunRocks
Yeah that was the first thing I noticed too.

@BensonUii that’s not what the article is claiming.... it’s unconfirmed... but I kinda feel that allowing to share the online only if you sign into that device does suggest game sharing too.

Although at this point that seems a massive leap...

It’s why full announcements are better than half

@shani does that work??? I thought everytime she needed to use them I would need to do something to the other switch and they could only be used on one at a time? - that’s what I read online - if it’s wrong and there is an easy work round id buy a second tomorrow

@Stocksy Oh wait, my mistake. I thought (or rather misremembered) your digital games can still be played by other users on the 'deactivated' Switch, just not by you.
But apparently, they other users can't play them as well on the deactivated console.
Sorry for the confusion!

Okay, but can I also redownload the games I purchased to a different Switch?

Previously Nintendo digital sales have been tied to the system.

@EasyDaRon
I think the future proofing in this will be that online subscribers can enjoy certain features on smart phones, PC, and probably the next Nintendo system, without having to create a new account and pay for a new subscription.

I am glad they finally fixed this missing element but the messaging and/or voice chat is really a waste of time. I do not use this feature now but I would like to be able to do it THROUGH the Switch as opposed to a cell phone app. In my opinion this seems like a tacked on service to appear as if they implemented something when in reality they need some people to code something proper.

That is green tea. Really, why would they pee in a bottle when they have all of the foliage behind them?

Still no "keeping your saves on a micro-sd" though...