Nintendo Switch Won’t Allow You to Share Digital eShop Games

It recently became known that Nintendo eShop purchases will be tied in to your Nintendo account. But it appears that the accounts themselves will be hardware-bound.

At a recent preview event for 1-2-Switch, YouTuber CrazyDopetastic conducted a Q&A with Nintendo Entertainment planning & development general manager Shinya Takahashi.

“If I were to buy a second Switch for my kids, would I be able to buy games from the eShop once and have them playable not on both systems?”

“Currently we don’t have a system like that in place for Nintendo Switch,” said Takahashi.

“We haven’t made any final decisions about how we would approach that going forward in the future, so unfortunately, I can’t provide any concrete answer for you right now.”

We assume that only one Nintendo eShop account can Ben logged in to one console at a time.

We’ll know more next week, when the Switch is officially released on March 3.