Change gamers who purchase their video games on bodily playing cards are used to having the ability to share these video games with different gamers just by handing them the cardboard. Now, Nintendo is planning a course of to permit gamers to share their digital Change purchases in the same manner.

The brand new “digital recreation card” system—which Nintendo announced today forward of a deliberate late April rollout—will permit gamers to “load” and “eject” digital video games through a devoted administration display. An ejected digital recreation cannot be performed on the unique console, however it may be digitally loaded onto a brand new console and performed there with out restriction by any person logged into that system.

Whereas an Web connection is required when loading and ejecting digital video games on this manner, the Web won’t be required to play the shared digital recreation after that preliminary course of is full. And whereas each Change consoles will should be synced up through a “native connection” the primary time such sharing is completed, subsequent shares will not require the consoles to be in bodily proximity.

Nintendo’s announcement says this digital recreation card system permits gamers to “freely load and organize which video games you play on as much as two programs [emphasis added],” suggesting you will not be capable to share totally different video games throughout multiple secondary console. For households with greater than two Change models, although, Nintendo says digital recreation card lending may also be out there throughout your Nintendo Change “household group” accounts. However these “household” loans are restricted to at least one recreation at a time (per group member) and solely final for 2 weeks (after which the mortgage may be manually renewed).