Nintendo will soon allow their fans to gift games, but there’s a catch.
They shared this information on Twitter:
A new system update for Nintendo Switch 2 and Nintendo Switch is available now, adding support for an upcoming feature that will allow you to gift Nintendo eShop products to members in your Nintendo Account family group.
Nintendo goes on to explain in their patch notes page that this gifting feature is launching on November 17, 2026.
As explained in their support page, Family Groups are primarily so that you can share a Switch Online subscription to multiple Switch and Switch 2 owners.
Family Group members can also already lend each other Virtual Game Cards, so it’s easy to see that Nintendo’s consumers wanted to take the next step in buy games for each other.
You can already gift digital games between users on Steam and Xbox, so this feature was long overdue. We now wait to see when PlayStation will add the feature on their platform.
