Nintendo has shaken up how it treats your digital game purchases. It's now calling those virtual game cards, and it hopes to ...

I Love the Switch Lite . One interesting side effect of virtual game cards is that I now have much more motivation to use our ...

Those who have been fortunate enough to lock in a Nintendo Switch 2 pre-order will surely be counting down the days until the ...

Nintendo has released a huge Nintendo Switch system update that adds a ton of new features ahead of the Switch 2 launch next ...

For those who missed Nintendo's March announcement of the Virtual Game Card system, the new setup allows players to easily ...

System version 20.0.0 is the most consequential update to the Switch firmware in some time. As well as adding Virtual Game Cards and GameShare to the main menu, it introduces the ability to ...

This update gets your Switch 1 ready for a system transfer to Switch 2, as well as GameShare and Virtual Game Cards.

Nintendo has released system update version 20.0.0 for the Nintendo Switch. The update adds Virtual Game Cards, GameShare support for compatible Nintendo Switch 2 games, System Transfer to ...

Nintendo has rolled out a new system update for the Nintendo Switch. This particular update is a hefty one, introducing the Virtual Game Cards feature announced during the company's March 2025 ...

You may need to go this route if you have a lot of games. There’s a great feature surrounding Virtual Game Cards that you may not have realized was even possible. For those of you who already ...

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Nintendo Switch owners with the console's latest ... due to the introduction of Nintendo's new Virtual Game Cards system which treats digital games as if they were physical cartridges.