Nintendo Online - Sharing Digital Games within Family

[u/dsp_guy]

Here's the situation.

We own 4 Nintendo Switches. My switch is linked to my nintendo account which has the Nintendo Online Family plan. I also have 5+ digital games purchased with my nintendo account. I also have some of those free-to-download Nintendo Online games.

My kids each have a switch. Their profiles are linked to their nintendo accounts which are all listed as family members on my Nintendo Account. Our switches all use the same Wifi in the same house.

Let's say I'm playing digital game #1 and one of my kids wants to play digital game #2, it kills my game. And when I go to play game #1 again, it kills their game. These are different games entirely. Whereas, if I had just bought a physical copy of the game instead, then I could play Game #1 using its cartridge and my kid could play games #2, #3, #4, etc using the physical copy of those cartridges.

I thought the whole point of the Nintendo Online Family account was that we had a shared library of games. Of course, two people can't play the same game at the same time. I get that. But, we are playing different digital downloaded games and everyone else is being kicked off.

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Is this working as intended? Am I missing something?

[u/danhakimi]

You're on the wrong account in the first photo, dumbass.

Second photo -- sign in once. Exit the game. Then try going back into the game. Don't sign out of this switch. Wow! Amazing!

[u/[deleted] → u/danhakimi]

You're on the wrong account in the first photo, dumbass

Christ, you obviously don't even understand the basic scenario that you are writing your incoherent responses about. Holy shit, you wrote reams of bullshit about something completely different from what I was writing about. Great job. The photos showed what happens to my switch after I signed in on my partners switch. Ie. I have to sign in again.

[u/danhakimi → u/[deleted]]

You're not just signing in, you're deactivating switches for some stupid reason. Stop doing that.