With the Switch 2 coming, Nintendo is working on Virtual Game Cards for cross-device portability
Nintendo introduced on Thursday that it’s engaged on Digital Sport Playing cards, a function that makes digitally downloaded video games extra transportable throughout completely different gadgets. With the extremely awaited Nintendo Switch 2 on the horizon, these Digital Sport Playing cards will make it simpler for customers to port over their current Swap video games to their new gadgets.
Because it stands, Swap video games could be bought both as a bodily recreation card — like a standard online game cartridge — or as a digital obtain. Whereas bodily recreation playing cards can simply be ejected and reinserted into one other Swap for straightforward play, digital downloads have been a bit tougher to port from gadget to gadget.
Out there in late April, Digital Sport Playing cards are meant to make digital video games function extra like bodily ones. Gamers can simply migrate video games between two gadgets, as long as they join regionally the primary time a recreation is transferred.
The Digital Sport Playing cards additionally include the performance to lend video games to anybody in your Nintendo Household Group, which incorporates as much as eight individuals, by way of native Wi-Fi. Customers can solely lend one recreation at a time to a specific individual, and on the finish of a 14-day borrowing interval, the video games return robotically to the lender.
Whereas there’s no official phrase but on when the Swap 2 will come out, followers are trying ahead to more information in regards to the console on a Nintendo Direct livestream scheduled for April 2.
