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• PLAY WII GAMES ON SWITCH LICENSE

That means, if you sell your Wii U or 3DS, you better have another one close by if you want to save your digital purchases.

Furthermore, once you transfer the licenses to the new system, the old one no longer has access to them. To move Nintendo licenses from one system to another, the consoles need to be physically near each other and connected to the same Wi-Fi network. Instead of tying digital purchases to an account, Nintendo stores licenses locally on your console. If your Wii U has even needed repairs or you've upgraded to a new DS system, you're probably familiar with the system transfer process. Sony and Microsoft went one way, with purchases being tied to accounts. Nintendo, on the other hand, decided to handle digital licenses in a way that's caused nothing but trouble for players since its inception. However, digital media has made things significantly more complicated.ĭigital sales became prevalent during the lifespan of the seventh generation consoles.

PLAY WII GAMES ON SWITCH LICENSE

For physical games, proving you have the license to play the game is usually as simple as owning the media and maybe typing in a license code. How is Nintendo different from Sony or Microsoft? Having a Nintendo Account may help transfer games forward to Nintendo's next system, but you won't be able to bring your Wii U and 3DS games forward to the Switch. However, with the company's new Nintendo Account service that works similarly to a PlayStation Network or Xbox Live account, gamers had reason to hope that maybe this time things would be different. Nintendo loves to rerelease games, and each time the same game comes to a new Nintendo system you're expected to foot the bill for it all over again.