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Max Freeman-Mills

This small Switch 2 upgrade has made my life so, so much easier

Nintendo Switch 2.

Sharing digital games – it's been a thorny subject for ages now, with all the big console-makers seemingly united in thinking that it's a nice idea that can't easily be implemented. Xbox famously backed away from digitally transferrable games in the run-up to the Xbox One, when people rumbled that it would make it far more restrictive to play your own games, and that seemed to be that.

On the Nintendo Switch, though, for those people with more than one console in their household, there was a long-standing workaround to let two consoles access games from the same account. It involved setting one of your consoles as your "primary" Switch, meaning it could play games offline without any issues, and another as your secondary one, which could play your games so long as a quick internet check confirmed they weren't already in use on the other console.

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