| Chrkeller said: I don't get the "lack of ownership" in reference to digital games. I had my ps4 digital games on an external. I put that external on my ps5 and starting playing. I didn't have download again and I have backups. Pretty similar to owning a disk. I don't think digital works the way people think it does. Except for Nintendo, they are archaic and link digital to hardware and not an account. At least they did with the wii u. |
My issue with Switch digital is that I can't just put my micro SD card into a different Switch and play the games downloaded on it. For whatever reason the card only works with the first Switch it's used with. Bringing over my library to my v2 Switch was ultimately still very easy with zero issues.
The digital software on the Switch is linked to your account. I just turned on my old v1 Switch and after an update I was able to download any game I bought on the v2 Switch through the eshop. They aren't on the homescreen if you bought them on another Switch but show up when downloading. You can even download games on more than one Switch despite buying it only once, which suprised me. You only can't play the same game simultaneously on two Switches through the same account. If you made one Switch your main console a game you bought through that account can only be played through that account on your non-main console.
What I find puzzling is, now looking at my old Switch, is that it shows the exact same playtime numbers that my newer Switch shows, which suggests that it's actually linked to my Nintendo account and not the hardware as I thought, but when I first linked mx account to the new Switch it showed all of these playtimes at zero. It made a hard reset. Maybe they've updated how it works since then.
Last edited by Kakadu18 - on 20 February 2022
