Parksey wrote:Yep, anyone who buys a Switch Lite purely to have a "spare" that they can take outside with them is lacking in common sense...
30% lighter, 10% smaller... I'm not sure that Switch owners exploring the portability of the Lite are "lacking in common sense".
Parksey wrote:...given Nintendo's approach to all their accounts on their systems. I can't imagine them setting it up so your profiles and your saves can cross back and forth.
The Switch's system functionality was updated to allow logon on multiple consoles (but not simultaneously) a few months ago.
Nintendo USA wrote:You can play digital games that you've purchased with your Nintendo Account on any Nintendo Switch console.
Please note that you can register one primary console per Nintendo Account. Once you've registered a primary console, your digital purchases can be played by anyone that uses the primary console. Other players will not be able to access your digital games on a non-primary console.
Once you've set your primary console, you can change the primary console whenever you'd like through your Nintendo eShop settings.
Physical games can be played on any system you like. Save data for physical and digital titles can be transferred between systems using Save Cloud Data backup (available to Nintendo Switch Online members) or the on-device transfer process.
The process may need to be slicker and it sounds like Nintendo is working in this:
Doug Bowser, talking to CNET, wrote:Yes, you will have the ability to transfer between devices, your gameplay experiences. More to come on there, but that is the intention.
Even so, I would have liked this aspect to have been cleared up before the announcement was made.