Now that Steam Deck is available and Yuzu is usable, I'm pretty much done with Nintendo, they used to be an amazing company, but they want to be greedy, I'll go to other services at are portable.
I bought the OG switch for my family some yrs back I just bought a Oled for myself a week ago and gave my daughter the OG switch I was the primary on the OG switch and then used the cloud save transfer to download the games from the OG on the new Oled switch… so far all is well but Nintendo needs to get with the damn times smh and make life easier for everyone 🤨
Can another profile have access to my NSO expansion pass catalog? We only have one switch console and he has been able to play online but not sure if he will be able play n64 and GBA games.
Bro just wanted to say I support u since the start of 2020 also I was in one of ur Q&A vids just wanted to say I love u man I am a big fan and Continue being the best Nintendo switch RUclipsr
I really really appreciate the support!! Thanks so much! I remember the Q&A video. I really want to do another one soon! Thank you again so much. Means a lot to hear things like that 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
you forgot to mention: game sharing would only work if you are in close proximity to the primary user. but let say it's cross-border (eg. out-of-country, maybe someone's on vacation), the primary account MAY (not absolute) get banned specially if it was shared to more than 2 switch consoles.
As confusing as it sounds, this is one of the most straightforward videos about sharing games. I have a Switch for me and my two daughters, and physical games are the way to go. DLC is a bit of a workaround. Do better Nintendo, do better...
We're probably getting our son his own Switch for Christmas this year, and I've been trying to figure out how to manage the few digital games I've purchased that he'll want to play. I haven't seen any article or any other video mention scenario #3, and I think that may be the best option for us to start with. (I also don't mind if he uses my Switch, the primary one, if he really wants to play one of those games). Thanks for the suggestion. This is definitely worth a sub to your channel! :)
@@creepycraiyons3519 I'm pretty sure anyone you add to your family account has access to the Switch Online stuff and cloud saves from another Switch. At least that's how it's working for us. So they can do the NES Switch Online and all that, from their own accounts. But only the person who bought games from the eShop can install them and share them with other users on a "primary" Switch. It's so confusing and backwards.
So my biggest issue with this is not being able to play games offline on Switch B. Is there a way to designate certain games on my account to always work on Switch A and other games always work on Switch B (when offline like on an airplane)?
Option 2 seems like the best over all.. all you have to do is make 3 profiles. Profile 1 is shared across both consoles and only makes purchases. Profile 2 and 3 are not shared at all so everyone has their own saved data. This makes it so both consoles can buy games, but minimize the chance of messing up someone’s game data. Example- ⚫️ (shared account) 🔵🔴(individual accounts) both consoles have access to ⚫️ to purchase whatever but have no access to the individual ones.
I get what you saying so you got 2 switch lights, you make 1 primary profile to make the purchases but that primary account must be connected to both switches. Then both switches make their own profiles separate from the primary to avoid any data mixups.
The only problem with your solution is that profile ⚫️ can only be set as primary account for switch A only. Switch A can play games and have its own saves using profile 🔵. However, switch B can ONLY access the games using profile ⚫️. Switch B cannot play the games using profile 🔴 as profile ⚫️ is already set as the primary account on switch A.
The data provided here wasn’t completely accurate. One of those ways does work, which is the last. But the other two do not work the way it was explained. Using words like “should” don’t help the situation. If you would’ve tried to provide a video tutorial showing each step on both switches, you would’ve found that the first 2 options do not work that way. Only the account that moves to the second switch can play the games on both. NO ONE else can create or use any profile on the second switch to play the games brought over. Furthermore, you can only deregister your account ONCE per year. So this does not work the way explained either.
I've had a switch for a few years and quite a few games on my account, and my brother just got his switch and only had access to my physical games. Method 3 will allow him to play my games I don't have a cartridge for. Thanks!
After listening to this a few times sounds like all 3 ways are essentially all the same with the variation of primary account holder login, and profiles, and how they are set up on certain switches? Yes no?
So I have a question. We have a Switch (I’m the parent account) and my son has a profile on it. He just got a switch lite and wants his profile on it. What do I do? Link my account to his switch lite? Does that pull his profile over as well?
Hey everyone, I'm a father of two boys who like to play on the Nintendo switch. So I bought one for the family. I am a complete newbe to the Nintendo switch. I hope I can properly formulate my question. I bought Zelda botw (physical) and then I bought the DLC's. The problem now is that my kids can't play the DLC on their profiles. It's absolutely nonsense imao. Did I something wrong or is it really intended from Nintendo that each and every switch user profile need to buy its own DLC? Thank you guys in advance.
Okay so I think I get it. I’m going to buy my daughter a switch lite so I should be able to add my account on her switch and she can play all my games right?
Thanks a lot mate. So what I've been doing before is not bannable right? Using my primary acct on my nephew's NSW. Im not using NSW online subs so Im not worrying about cloud saves😁
banned will occur if you share your account to more than 4 switches (not exactly sure because its a case-to-case basis) and aren't in the same proximity area of the primary user (different region or country). also if there are several concurrent users accessing the primary account (regardless of playing same game or not). this will trigger Nintendo that the account maybe sold to several users or was hacked. so never share your account info in forums or online.
Nintendo must've updated and changed something. I just tried 3rd option and second console with user cannot play digital game that was downloaded from other console purchaser. Now the second console has a Nintendo account but does NOT have an online membership. When attempting to play digital game through that second console and its own user it said to purchase game from eshop. But on that second console with created user of purchased game is able to play. Any suggestions? 🤔
I have a little question... Can i use my hotspot to log into the game, and after its launched and started playing, can I then turn my hotspot back off and play the game offline? Is that the case or do I need to be online the entire time that I play the game so it can check consistently? This video answered every question I have had so far other that that.
It's posible to register person B in Switch A and buy the person B x game from switch A and all done? What will happen with the another buys in the future? The person B will have two primary consoles and the person A not one?
So on step one: once “Person A” makes “Person B” switch the primary for “Person A”, will “Person A” still be able to play the games on both “A & B” switches or just “Person B” switch?
@@blakethenoobie1433 so this method won’t work if I have two kids profiles and want each on a different switch. My profile(3rd one here) is the buying acct. one of them can only play w my acct right? As you noted the non-primary console must play with account that bought game. Thanks!
I have a question taking option B. I have 2 switch, one for me and one for my daughter. I have my profile in switch 1 (mine) as primary and switch 2 (my daughter). If her profile is primary in switch 2, she cannot download my games or play my games?
I have a switch lite but am considering a new OLED so how would I transfer my progress and play between both of them? Do I just add my account and that’s it? Would that allow me to play the same game with the same progress on both?
I have a single question maybe you can help me... since I have 2 switchs and one account link to both of them, Can I add a second account to the primary switch without linking the games to the second switch????
I am sure this has been asked a million times, so sorry in advance... Can my daughter play on her account (not mine) a digital game that i purchased on my account on my main switch, and i play another game on the second switch on my account? Example: She plays digital animal crossing on my 1st switch on her account while i play octopath on my account on 2nd switch. Thanks in advance!!
I think I'm doing method 2 you're mentioning I bought all the digital games but my brother has the primary account so he can play my games on *his own* profile which you forgot to mention on the video. I need to connect on the internet on the secondary account but we can play same game like Monster Hunter Rise or any other game with multiplayer at the same time. My lil bro keep getting errors when I was the primary account since both profile cant play at the same time. And also secondary switch can't play on other profile to play digital games iirc (CMIIW) Inshort: Me (Switch OLED) secondary account connects to the internet to play digital games with main profile. My lil bro (Switch Lite) primary account but uses another profile of his own to play digital games without connecting to the internet.
Why is it that when I go to my friends house (the one I’m gamesharing with) I can’t playing games on MY account on his switch? My account is added ofc, but say when I go over to hang out and play Switch Sports, it says I can’t select my account. He owns the games too. On my switch tho I can select his account on MY switch tho. Any tips?
@@DripMediaGamingyou “can” ONLY if 1) the non-primary is playing on the “main profile” (the OG profile) on the second switch. If the Primary is also using this profile you have to put the Primary Switch in ✈️mode. OR 2) Primary plays under a different Profile (no airplane mode needed for this). This is the only way you can simultaneously play.
Option 2 makes sense for me. So if I try to become primary again my friend/family will have the games downloaded but unable to play since it will check online that they did not buy it. So what about when I am secondary (since I am sharing my games) and I play a physical copy of game, will it still do the online check?
Thank you! Very helpful! I set up essentially your 3rd option. My second Switch stays home, both are in my account, my games downloaded to both. the kids play it using my account. It’s fine, but I’ve wondered if I should let them create their own profiles? Would it continue to work the same? Also I don’t even subscribe to switch online, no auto-cloud saves, so I don’t think I have to worry about that?
Let's say Me (A) and my Friend (B) wanna share games... i bought the game in my primary switch (A), i will deregister, and my friend will register in the switch (B) with my account (A), he than downloads the game, and creates a save file on his first account (B) than proceeds to deregister, I log in again with my original account (A) in my switch (A) and name this the primary switch again. Will my friend still have access to the game? Keeping in mind he has the game downloaded and he will enter with another account. Will I get to start the game? Will we both get to play online together?
The only thing I'm trying to do is share with my wife she a game that I want and I have a game she wants.. This is why I only get Physical Copies most of the time.. But sometimes there are games that are only Digital and I don't want to buy two Copies
What if you are connected temporarily to the WIFI and then all of the sudden, you lost the internet. Will you be disconnected from the game let's say you don't have WIFI? It's like all shared games will be accessible ONLINE only. Thanks in advance!
I get the impression that if you’re logging into your account remotely, that when you open the game it will verify your license at the start and then will work for the duration of play. Question would then be, at what point does it re-check? Maybe good until the game is closed down and restarted or some idle time.
Question, is it able to Family Share a game at the same time, like Mario Kart 8, so my daughter and I can play together? I'm seriously thinking I'm done with Nintendo and going to basically use a SteamDeck from now on, other than to play what I have already purchased.
Great video and info. Not too many people cover this 👍🏽. I had a couple questions if you could help me out or anyone in the comments could help me out? 1) Have you had the chance to try the NYXI joypads? I hear they are getting better praise over the Binbok joypads, which I love both of your videos on those by the way. Just wanted to see if they are worth getting? 2) Do you have any recommendations for and good display stands for the switch and controllers? To prevent clutter and better organization 😁
I have a question, i have 2 switches and have the same profile on both of them, i have the physical copy of zelda and only ever play it on one switch, never tried playing it on the other, if i took the card out of the first switch and put it in the second one and played with the same account, will it restart everything? will my data be deleted?
headsup: Switch Online Account Signup wall between 'selecting user profile' and continuing onto 'system' & 'turn off autosave data'. option dissappears unless you signup or trial. boo.
I need help on something my dad bought my brother a nintendo switch from a thriff shop the thing is the switch had a acount of someone else and i wanted to know how can i transfer the game from that switch to my switch?
What happens if all the games are on my daughters profile and switch and I want to buy a new switch and make my own profile and take a few games from my daughters profile to my new profile???
I'm getting my own Switch soon and I'm planning to buy Tears of the Kingdom digitally on one system and share it with my friend who lives in the same address and has her own Switch so that we don't have to but two games. I guess there's a way to do it but even after the explanations I'm not completely sure if it'll work, I'm kinda confused 😅
Hi I was wondering if it’s possible to game share with friends (say Mario kart deluxe 8) that play on a different game console? I’m sorry if the question is dumb. I’m just curious.
I'm guessing you mean if person A has an Xbox and person B has a Nintendo Switch. If that is the case, you can not share games, you can only share games with people who have the same console type(Xbox/Xbox, PS/PS, Switch/Switch)
Someone just kept telling me you can have other family members play your games if their account is on your family plan but ive never seen a video of some mentioning it, is it true?
Last year I played pokemon sword on my regular account and made a new profile to basically get other legendaries from isle of armour, transfer them to pokemon home and i was done, everything was fine. Now I've got a new switch and I'm trying to do the same thing with the same two accounts but now it says I need to buy pokemon sword on the other account.. why?? I played it for 50+ hours as it shows on my profile without it being bought on a separate email, so what's the problem now??
Wait please don’t ignore me but how come when you game share the two switches game sharing can not play the game and I quite “at the same time” why can’t we play at the same time but game sharing
My question is, we have a Switch. I am the primary account holder. My kids and I have profiles on the family plan so they can each go online. If I get my son a switch lite, can I sign in with the same info and also have his profile on their but also let him download digital games that I paid for and his cloud saves?
Thats the idea, make the switch lite your primary and then remote in through your original. Primary no matter user has all games and account with games remote has access to those games.
@@jtny_ my younger one plays the primary switch so that may be an issue. I hope getting the profiles and game saves on the secondary at least won't be an issue
I have a question about gamesharing on switch 1. Say if i wanna gameshare dlc such as Pokemon SWSH will that also be shared 2. Can we use the DLC at the same time or is it not allowed?
Depends what you mean by DLC? If you are referring to a game then yes, if its special content like skins or special items for a character then no, those are usually linked to the account only.
I bought the expansion pack for my switch and the expansion pack comes w/ Animal Crossing DLC. Bc I transferred my island to my switch and hers is the primary, which animal crossing was purchased. It says on my switch that I technically do not have the “downloadable content” but i do, but it was transferred. Bc of this, it says i cant download the DLC. What should i do in this situation? I want to de register her switch as primary but i dont want her to lose her island and progress. Help please
Hi everyone! I recently got banned on a Nintendo switch device. I was literally banned because I transferred my data and account on the new switch I bought (OLED). Yes I did NOT hack or anything.. It sucks.. but now I'm worried that I will be banned a 2nd time because my nintendo account is still linked to the banned one. The problem is I can't change it. It doesn't let me delete the nintendo account on the banned one. What do I do?
From what I understand, you can (at least with the first two methods). - owner can play game on secondary switch, - other users can play same game on primary switch. I will try this method to play against my daughter, with me on secondary, and her on primary, But we still only have one shared console, but I realize we need a second for some games to be more fun.
😀 I got the Oled Switch for All of us to play at the house (not a primary) and 4 Switch Lites: 1. My Self to take to Work (Primary) 2. Wife (needs wifi) 3. Kid 1 (need wifi) 4. Kid 2 (need wifi) I got the Family Plan. And every one has there own profile from my account, and it works fine. Most of the time they are in Grandma's, Aunt's and the House and all of them has wifi. When there in the Car i use my cell wifi share and it works perfectly.... NOTE: (you need to have your Nintendo Acount and have your people on child profile, plus have the family plan)
So if my brother has a switch and his own account and I have my own and we create accounts on each other switches would tht work as long as we have wifi when we want to use each other accounts
i did the second method where you switch primary accounts. but i’m the person who own more games, so i always do need internet to play. unfortunately iphone 13 pro max hotspot doesn’t work with switch, i’ve tried others 13 pro max in apple and doesn’t work.
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God why Nintendo is so complicated and annoying for things like this 🤦
Now that Steam Deck is available and Yuzu is usable, I'm pretty much done with Nintendo, they used to be an amazing company, but they want to be greedy, I'll go to other services at are portable.
Probably because Nintendo likes money
@@Y0kAiS but it’s not losing them money, Nintendo isn’t a heavily coop or multiplayer console
@@Y0kAiS yes, they want everyone to BUY the games, Duh.
@@zeroproductions_games hey I’m just trying to help the OP out lol
I bought the OG switch for my family some yrs back I just bought a Oled for myself a week ago and gave my daughter the OG switch I was the primary on the OG switch and then used the cloud save transfer to download the games from the OG on the new Oled switch… so far all is well but Nintendo needs to get with the damn times smh and make life easier for everyone 🤨
Does your kid have access to your games ? Or did you have to purchase them again
@@BochinFTW according to google it does let u which is why I’m here to see if it’s true. Xbox series x does this and you don’t need gold
Game Sharing should be part of the Family Pack Plan.
If that was the case it would be worth the price for sure
This. 100%
Can another profile have access to my NSO expansion pass catalog? We only have one switch console and he has been able to play online but not sure if he will be able play n64 and GBA games.
Yea crazy it isn't nintendo being greedy 🤣🤣
That's why I'm here, is not? So why the hell in the World make the people pay "Family Pack" if you can't share
“My kids don’t care about their save files”, legendary last words.
😂😂😂
So complicated . I’m just trying to play Pokémon off my brothers switch 🤦🏼♂️
Bro just wanted to say I support u since the start of 2020 also I was in one of ur Q&A vids just wanted to say I love u man I am a big fan and Continue being the best Nintendo switch RUclipsr
I really really appreciate the support!! Thanks so much! I remember the Q&A video. I really want to do another one soon! Thank you again so much. Means a lot to hear things like that 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
My brain is going to explode
you forgot to mention: game sharing would only work if you are in close proximity to the primary user. but let say it's cross-border (eg. out-of-country, maybe someone's on vacation), the primary account MAY (not absolute) get banned specially if it was shared to more than 2 switch consoles.
THANK YOU! We just got the new Splatoon 3 Oled. I'm doing ALL the research before transferring our original switch over. This video was so helpful. 😁
Thank you so much, been reading web pages and watching videos on this topic everywhere and this is the easiest one to understand
Check out the new video! It’s much easier to understand
This person A got this person B very confused.
I know 🤦🏻♂️ it’s all so confusing
As confusing as it sounds, this is one of the most straightforward videos about sharing games. I have a Switch for me and my two daughters, and physical games are the way to go. DLC is a bit of a workaround. Do better Nintendo, do better...
Part 2 coming very soon
We're probably getting our son his own Switch for Christmas this year, and I've been trying to figure out how to manage the few digital games I've purchased that he'll want to play. I haven't seen any article or any other video mention scenario #3, and I think that may be the best option for us to start with. (I also don't mind if he uses my Switch, the primary one, if he really wants to play one of those games). Thanks for the suggestion. This is definitely worth a sub to your channel! :)
I just paid a hundred bucks for a family account that works one switch at a time. Wtf
@@creepycraiyons3519 I'm pretty sure anyone you add to your family account has access to the Switch Online stuff and cloud saves from another Switch. At least that's how it's working for us. So they can do the NES Switch Online and all that, from their own accounts. But only the person who bought games from the eShop can install them and share them with other users on a "primary" Switch. It's so confusing and backwards.
So my biggest issue with this is not being able to play games offline on Switch B. Is there a way to designate certain games on my account to always work on Switch A and other games always work on Switch B (when offline like on an airplane)?
Can you show us how you do this? I am more of a visual learner. TIA
Option 2 seems like the best over all.. all you have to do is make 3 profiles. Profile 1 is shared across both consoles and only makes purchases. Profile 2 and 3 are not shared at all so everyone has their own saved data. This makes it so both consoles can buy games, but minimize the chance of messing up someone’s game data. Example- ⚫️ (shared account) 🔵🔴(individual accounts) both consoles have access to ⚫️ to purchase whatever but have no access to the individual ones.
I get what you saying so you got 2 switch lights, you make 1 primary profile to make the purchases but that primary account must be connected to both switches. Then both switches make their own profiles separate from the primary to avoid any data mixups.
@@Fick45 exactly.. I just explained it so the children could understand but you got it locked in
The only problem with your solution is that profile ⚫️ can only be set as primary account for switch A only. Switch A can play games and have its own saves using profile 🔵. However, switch B can ONLY access the games using profile ⚫️. Switch B cannot play the games using profile 🔴 as profile ⚫️ is already set as the primary account on switch A.
The data provided here wasn’t completely accurate. One of those ways does work, which is the last. But the other two do not work the way it was explained. Using words like “should” don’t help the situation. If you would’ve tried to provide a video tutorial showing each step on both switches, you would’ve found that the first 2 options do not work that way.
Only the account that moves to the second switch can play the games on both. NO ONE else can create or use any profile on the second switch to play the games brought over.
Furthermore, you can only deregister your account ONCE per year. So this does not work the way explained either.
Dude thanks for explaining.. Nintendo made this so freaking confusing... I even have the online account which I thought it would solve this problem
Dude thank you!!! The last option will work for me. Thought I was going to go broke getting my kid his own switch.
Did it work?
@@ohyeahinfinite yes. Worked great.
You had me at person A and B
I've had a switch for a few years and quite a few games on my account, and my brother just got his switch and only had access to my physical games. Method 3 will allow him to play my games I don't have a cartridge for.
Thanks!
Great video, thanks for sharing the info!
Absolutely!
extremely annoying when yu have a switch and your kids do too 😒🤦🏻♀️
After listening to this a few times sounds like all 3 ways are essentially all the same with the variation of primary account holder login, and profiles, and how they are set up on certain switches? Yes no?
Do both people have to be on the family plan? or can both have the individual plan to do this?
I would bet you can do either, family plan saves you a couple bucks though
Maybe an idea:
You should explain things with a draw and not with your hands.
I couldn’t follow option 2⁉️
So I have a question. We have a Switch (I’m the parent account) and my son has a profile on it. He just got a switch lite and wants his profile on it. What do I do? Link my account to his switch lite? Does that pull his profile over as well?
Please Read can you share online membership. Like on PlayStation you can use someone games plus to play online games
Can this be done with 3 switches? 1 for me and 2 kids
I option 3 but I have a question. Can you do option 3 with physical games? Or just downloaded games?
Hey everyone,
I'm a father of two boys who like to play on the Nintendo switch. So I bought one for the family. I am a complete newbe to the Nintendo switch. I hope I can properly formulate my question.
I bought Zelda botw (physical) and then I bought the DLC's. The problem now is that my kids can't play the DLC on their profiles. It's absolutely nonsense imao. Did I something wrong or is it really intended from Nintendo that each and every switch user profile need to buy its own DLC?
Thank you guys in advance.
2022 and Nintendo is living in the Stone Age
You mentioned “account” in the 3rd method. Did you mean profile, or an actual Nintendo account that has its own email registration?
Question: if I do the first option..
Will my Son have access to purchase games on my card??
That's my only worry??
For option 3 do you still need an internet connection for it to work? My second switch can’t connect to wireless networks at all
Okay so I think I get it. I’m going to buy my daughter a switch lite so I should be able to add my account on her switch and she can play all my games right?
NINTENDO HATES THEIR CUSTOMERS!
I did it the 2nd way but idk why it’s saying u have to buy the game when playing on the secondary switch
Thanks a lot mate. So what I've been doing before is not bannable right? Using my primary acct on my nephew's NSW. Im not using NSW online subs so Im not worrying about cloud saves😁
banned will occur if you share your account to more than 4 switches (not exactly sure because its a case-to-case basis) and aren't in the same proximity area of the primary user (different region or country).
also if there are several concurrent users accessing the primary account (regardless of playing same game or not). this will trigger Nintendo that the account maybe sold to several users or was hacked.
so never share your account info in forums or online.
@@wylerXL I’m trynna do it with my gf she’s in LA and I’m in NY will I get banned ?
@@hoodedknight360 it depends how many gfs do you have ;) (dont know)
Nintendo must've updated and changed something. I just tried 3rd option and second console with user cannot play digital game that was downloaded from other console purchaser. Now the second console has a Nintendo account but does NOT have an online membership.
When attempting to play digital game through that second console and its own user it said to purchase game from eshop. But on that second console with created user of purchased game is able to play. Any suggestions? 🤔
I have a little question... Can i use my hotspot to log into the game, and after its launched and started playing, can I then turn my hotspot back off and play the game offline? Is that the case or do I need to be online the entire time that I play the game so it can check consistently? This video answered every question I have had so far other that that.
Yeah it only needs to check once
@@DripMediaGamingokay thank you! You just earned another subscriber
It's posible to register person B in Switch A and buy the person B x game from switch A and all done? What will happen with the another buys in the future? The person B will have two primary consoles and the person A not one?
So on step one: once “Person A” makes “Person B” switch the primary for “Person A”, will “Person A” still be able to play the games on both “A & B” switches or just “Person B” switch?
either people can both play the games but the secondary switch needs to use the account that bought the game and be connected to the internet
@@blakethenoobie1433 so this method won’t work if I have two kids profiles and want each on a different switch. My profile(3rd one here) is the buying acct. one of them can only play w my acct right? As you noted the non-primary console must play with account that bought game. Thanks!
@@bobapower99 yep that's how it works glad I could help 😁
dope video! nintendo needs to fix a lotttt of things!! :/
I have a question taking option B. I have 2 switch, one for me and one for my daughter.
I have my profile in switch 1 (mine) as primary and switch 2 (my daughter). If her profile is primary in switch 2, she cannot download my games or play my games?
I have a switch lite but am considering a new OLED so how would I transfer my progress and play between both of them? Do I just add my account and that’s it? Would that allow me to play the same game with the same progress on both?
I have a single question maybe you can help me... since I have 2 switchs and one account link to both of them, Can I add a second account to the primary switch without linking the games to the second switch????
Okay so my friend and I have the same switch and I bought games on it but she can't play it...how can she play it?it's on the same switch
I am sure this has been asked a million times, so sorry in advance... Can my daughter play on her account (not mine) a digital game that i purchased on my account on my main switch, and i play another game on the second switch on my account? Example: She plays digital animal crossing on my 1st switch on her account while i play octopath on my account on 2nd switch. Thanks in advance!!
I think I'm doing method 2 you're mentioning
I bought all the digital games but my brother has the primary account so he can play my games on *his own* profile which you forgot to mention on the video.
I need to connect on the internet on the secondary account but we can play same game like Monster Hunter Rise or any other game with multiplayer at the same time.
My lil bro keep getting errors when I was the primary account since both profile cant play at the same time.
And also secondary switch can't play on other profile to play digital games iirc (CMIIW)
Inshort:
Me (Switch OLED) secondary account connects to the internet to play digital games with main profile.
My lil bro (Switch Lite) primary account but uses another profile of his own to play digital games without connecting to the internet.
Do DLCs also share or only base games?
@@morkanz6998 DLCs also share
So there is a way to set it up where they can both play the same game at the same time? Like play Mario kart against each other?
So there is a way to set it up where they can both play the same game at the same time? Like play Mario kart against each other?
@@mambacus Yes, just follow what I did on Primary acct and Secondary account
Why is it that when I go to my friends house (the one I’m gamesharing with) I can’t playing games on MY account on his switch? My account is added ofc, but say when I go over to hang out and play Switch Sports, it says I can’t select my account. He owns the games too. On my switch tho I can select his account on MY switch tho. Any tips?
Your first explanation was actually how PlayStation do game sharing, I think.
With the 3rd option you cannot play the games simultaneously using one account
Yes you can.
@@DripMediaGamingyou “can” ONLY if 1) the non-primary is playing on the “main profile” (the OG profile) on the second switch. If the Primary is also using this profile you have to put the Primary Switch in ✈️mode.
OR
2) Primary plays under a different Profile (no airplane mode needed for this).
This is the only way you can simultaneously play.
The cloud save step you mentioned there is for sure a must. I actually turned cloud saves “off” on the non-primary.
@@DripMediaGaminghow can I? I tried it. Not allowing us to play the same game simultaneously.
@@jemsuarez5872 airplane mode. I explain it in my newer video on it in detail
Option 2 makes sense for me. So if I try to become primary again my friend/family will have the games downloaded but unable to play since it will check online that they did not buy it. So what about when I am secondary (since I am sharing my games) and I play a physical copy of game, will it still do the online check?
Thank you! Very helpful! I set up essentially your 3rd option. My second Switch stays home, both are in my account, my games downloaded to both. the kids play it using my account. It’s fine, but I’ve wondered if I should let them create their own profiles? Would it continue to work the same?
Also I don’t even subscribe to switch online, no auto-cloud saves, so I don’t think I have to worry about that?
If I do it the 3rd way can I also play the n64 games, if the second switch dont bought it?
Let's say Me (A) and my Friend (B) wanna share games... i bought the game in my primary switch (A), i will deregister, and my friend will register in the switch (B) with my account (A), he than downloads the game, and creates a save file on his first account (B) than proceeds to deregister, I log in again with my original account (A) in my switch (A) and name this the primary switch again.
Will my friend still have access to the game? Keeping in mind he has the game downloaded and he will enter with another account.
Will I get to start the game? Will we both get to play online together?
Well, from what i gether probably the friend will have to log in my account and use Internet, and we wouldnt be able to play together
The only thing I'm trying to do is share with my wife she a game that I want and I have a game she wants.. This is why I only get Physical Copies most of the time.. But sometimes there are games that are only Digital and I don't want to buy two Copies
I'm trying to figure out how I can share game with 3 switches and everyone have their own profiles and saves? Which would you recommend?
Buy a game for each. Its what game companies want you to do.
I did the option 3. So I have to redownload the games??? I mean, what’s next after turning the cloud off?
What if you are connected temporarily to the WIFI and then all of the sudden, you lost the internet. Will you be disconnected from the game let's say you don't have WIFI? It's like all shared games will be accessible ONLINE only. Thanks in advance!
I get the impression that if you’re logging into your account remotely, that when you open the game it will verify your license at the start and then will work for the duration of play. Question would then be, at what point does it re-check? Maybe good until the game is closed down and restarted or some idle time.
@@jtny_I was watching another video where someone said it’s 3 hours and you get a 2.5 hour warning before it checks again at 3.
Question, is it able to Family Share a game at the same time, like Mario Kart 8, so my daughter and I can play together? I'm seriously thinking I'm done with Nintendo and going to basically use a SteamDeck from now on, other than to play what I have already purchased.
On whichever switch if you play as a different user you can both play
On the primary account you make a new user and play as thst new user whole the other switch plays on your account that's how you both play
Do DLCs also share?
Great video and info. Not too many people cover this 👍🏽. I had a couple questions if you could help me out or anyone in the comments could help me out?
1) Have you had the chance to try the NYXI joypads? I hear they are getting better praise over the Binbok joypads, which I love both of your videos on those by the way. Just wanted to see if they are worth getting?
2) Do you have any recommendations for and good display stands for the switch and controllers? To prevent clutter and better organization 😁
I still don't know how to do this but thanks for the video
do you know if you can play with each other online still after you gmae share with each other???
This is really complicated I just wanted to game share with my boyfriend
I have a question, i have 2 switches and have the same profile on both of them, i have the physical copy of zelda and only ever play it on one switch, never tried playing it on the other, if i took the card out of the first switch and put it in the second one and played with the same account, will it restart everything? will my data be deleted?
headsup: Switch Online Account Signup wall between 'selecting user profile' and continuing onto 'system' & 'turn off autosave data'. option dissappears unless you signup or trial. boo.
I need help on something my dad bought my brother a nintendo switch from a thriff shop the thing is the switch had a acount of someone else and i wanted to know how can i transfer the game from that switch to my switch?
What happens if all the games are on my daughters profile and switch and I want to buy a new switch and make my own profile and take a few games from my daughters profile to my new profile???
I'm getting my own Switch soon and I'm planning to buy Tears of the Kingdom digitally on one system and share it with my friend who lives in the same address and has her own Switch so that we don't have to but two games. I guess there's a way to do it but even after the explanations I'm not completely sure if it'll work, I'm kinda confused 😅
What I’m basically hearing is that I should just buy the
cartridges and done
Hi I was wondering if it’s possible to game share with friends (say Mario kart deluxe 8) that play on a different game console? I’m sorry if the question is dumb. I’m just curious.
I'm guessing you mean if person A has an Xbox and person B has a Nintendo Switch. If that is the case, you can not share games, you can only share games with people who have the same console type(Xbox/Xbox, PS/PS, Switch/Switch)
I went cross eyed watching this 😆
Someone just kept telling me you can have other family members play your games if their account is on your family plan but ive never seen a video of some mentioning it, is it true?
I lost you every single step
He explaining with his hands… it makes no sense
Last year I played pokemon sword on my regular account and made a new profile to basically get other legendaries from isle of armour, transfer them to pokemon home and i was done, everything was fine.
Now I've got a new switch and I'm trying to do the same thing with the same two accounts but now it says I need to buy pokemon sword on the other account.. why??
I played it for 50+ hours as it shows on my profile without it being bought on a separate email, so what's the problem now??
Pokemon sword doesn't have cloud save
How can I play a game with other family members in different states with their own switch and game purchase? Ex: monopoly ?
Wait please don’t ignore me but how come when you game share the two switches game sharing can not play the game and I quite “at the same time” why can’t we play at the same time but game sharing
My question is, we have a Switch. I am the primary account holder. My kids and I have profiles on the family plan so they can each go online. If I get my son a switch lite, can I sign in with the same info and also have his profile on their but also let him download digital games that I paid for and his cloud saves?
Thats the idea, make the switch lite your primary and then remote in through your original. Primary no matter user has all games and account with games remote has access to those games.
@@jtny_ my younger one plays the primary switch so that may be an issue. I hope getting the profiles and game saves on the secondary at least won't be an issue
Could you not just download a game on an SD card and then redownload the same game on a different sd card and both switches have the game?
Can you deregister and register a primary console and non primary console on different switches as many times as you want yourself on Nintendo eshop ?
Question: let’s say I game share idk Mario Kart? Can they play on 2 different profiles at the same time and play against each other? If I do option 2.
Yes you can do this, that's what I do to play Luigi's Mansion online
@@y.ujisanat the same time tho?
I have a question about gamesharing on switch
1. Say if i wanna gameshare dlc such as Pokemon SWSH will that also be shared
2. Can we use the DLC at the same time or is it not allowed?
Depends what you mean by DLC? If you are referring to a game then yes, if its special content like skins or special items for a character then no, those are usually linked to the account only.
I bought the expansion pack for my switch and the expansion pack comes w/ Animal Crossing DLC. Bc I transferred my island to my switch and hers is the primary, which animal crossing was purchased. It says on my switch that I technically do not have the “downloadable content” but i do, but it was transferred. Bc of this, it says i cant download the DLC. What should i do in this situation? I want to de register her switch as primary but i dont want her to lose her island and progress. Help please
Hi everyone! I recently got banned on a Nintendo switch device. I was literally banned because I transferred my data and account on the new switch I bought (OLED). Yes I did NOT hack or anything.. It sucks.. but now I'm worried that I will be banned a 2nd time because my nintendo account is still linked to the banned one. The problem is I can't change it. It doesn't let me delete the nintendo account on the banned one.
What do I do?
I´m actually new to nintento but I watched in a video that you can do that throught my nintento website on a latop/pc
With any of the methods can we play the same game at the same time?
From what I understand, you can (at least with the first two methods).
- owner can play game on secondary switch,
- other users can play same game on primary switch.
I will try this method to play against my daughter, with me on secondary, and her on primary,
But we still only have one shared console, but I realize we need a second for some games to be more fun.
My daughter bought a game on her account on my switch but I can't play it on my account on the same system. Anybody know if there a way around this?
If I bought the game cartridge, the physical game how can I play it without having the physical game.
You can’t
Thanks for the help i was having the same problem.
Well my primary is broken so i cant deregister
Only thing I can't get them to play is the expansion packs
Is there a way if you don't want to game share between the 2 switches to restore both switches to there original forms
The first method is basically the Xbox and Playstation way so WTF??
With method 2 Do you know if person a and person b people can play the same game at the same time?
I think that they have to use different profiles if both consoles are online.
But yes.
@@thorbjrnhellehaven5766 so just like PS4 right?
@@ManuMiAS how would I know? I never played PS4? I played quite a bit PS1 back in the days, but I believe they are different...
😀 I got the Oled Switch for All of us to play at the house (not a primary)
and 4 Switch Lites:
1. My Self to take to Work (Primary)
2. Wife (needs wifi)
3. Kid 1 (need wifi)
4. Kid 2 (need wifi)
I got the Family Plan.
And every one has there own profile from my account, and it works fine.
Most of the time they are in Grandma's, Aunt's and the House and all of them has wifi.
When there in the Car i use my cell wifi share and it works perfectly....
NOTE:
(you need to have your Nintendo Acount and have your people on child profile, plus have the family plan)
So you can game share on the family plan?
@@kenallen3250 yes but his 3rd option is better. less stress
So if my brother has a switch and his own account and I have my own and we create accounts on each other switches would tht work as long as we have wifi when we want to use each other accounts
Great vid
i did the second method where you switch primary accounts. but i’m the person who own more games, so i always do need internet to play. unfortunately iphone 13 pro max hotspot doesn’t work with switch, i’ve tried others 13 pro max in apple and doesn’t work.
Are u two able to play the same game at the same time?
@@TheDee74 yes, we even play overcooked together