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Nintendo has shaken up how it treats your digital game purchases. It's now calling those virtual game cards, and it hopes to make it easier for you to share your games across multiple Switch systems.

Nintendo Switch firmware update 20.0.0 just went live, allowing players to share games more easily with other console owners. Virtual Game Cards is the new catch-all term for anything digital you can ...

Nintendo has introduced a new feature to download, manage, and even share digital game purchases with Virtual Game Cards for both the Nintendo Switch, and Nintendo Switch 2. With this feature, any ...

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Nintendo has pushed out a major system update for the Switch that enables its new Virtual Game Card ownership system for digital games, as well as several Switch 2-related features, including ...

Nintendo has rolled out a new system update for the Nintendo Switch. This particular update is a hefty one, introducing the Virtual Game Cards feature announced during the company’s March 2025 ...

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Yeah, this is why I got off console gaming, decades of collecting games to see them become practically unusable. Now sitting on over 1k games on Steam and glad l bought them there and not some console ...

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