Nintendo introduced on Thursday that it’s engaged on Virtual Game Cards, a function that makes digitally downloaded video games extra moveable throughout completely different gadgets. With the extremely awaited Nintendo Switch 2 on the horizon, these Virtual Game Cards will make it simpler for customers to port over their present Switch video games to their new gadgets.
As it stands, Switch video games might be bought both as a bodily recreation card — like a standard online game cartridge — or as a digital obtain. While bodily recreation playing cards can simply be ejected and reinserted into one other Switch for straightforward play, digital downloads have been a bit more durable to port from system to system.
Available in late April, Virtual Game Cards are meant to make digital video games function extra like bodily ones. Players can simply migrate video games between two completely different gadgets, as long as they join domestically the primary time a recreation is transferred.
The Virtual Game Cards additionally include the performance to lend out video games to anybody in your Nintendo Family Group, which incorporates as much as eight individuals, through native wi-fi. Users can solely lend one recreation at a time to a selected particular person, and on the finish of a fourteen-day borrowing interval, the video games return routinely to the lender.
While there’s no official phrase but on when the Switch 2 will come out, followers are wanting ahead to extra details about the console on a Nintendo Direct livestream scheduled for April 2.
