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Nintendo Announce Virtual Game Cards (Digital Game Sharing) (www.youtube.com)

submitted 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This was way more confusing than it had to be.

TL;DR: You can lend your digital games to friends & family for 14 days, but both consoles need to connect locally to enable this...(?)

You can't play digital games you've lent out during this time. I guess the point is making it similar to giving your friend a physical game cartridge.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (5 children)

you should be able to use games within your family completely unlimited anyway.

I would understand the local connection requirement if that was for sharing with people outside your family. that would make it similar to sharing a game with a friend you know in person. without that the floodgates would be open to sharing games with literally anyone online.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (4 children)

How would you make it so you can only share games with your family? As in what technical definition of "family" would you use that can't include your friends?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

apple does it, and i think Google too. everyone you add to your "family" must share the same payment method. so naturally you will limit that to only people you highly trust.

[–] Kelly 2 points 4 days ago

For child accounts the trust might extend to blocking purchases in the general case and having the kids send purchase requests to the parent for approval.

Of course this leaves the child account restricted is such a manner it would be unappealing if there wasn't an actual parent-child relationship IRL.

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