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Nintendo switch family membership12/13/2023 ![]() ![]() Surely Nintendo saw people “abusing” this as a possible outcome. Still, we can say we're family and be in a family group. While Wendy and I are family members, none of the other KoopaTV staffers are related. That means the Royal Koopa Family family group won't happen, because I am making a family group for KoopaTV instead. Going back to how a family group actually functions, you can only be a member of one family. I hope that illustrates why Nintendo is doing this family membership deal. So if Iggy digitally buys Mario Kart 8 Deluxe on his Switch, and when he isn't playing it I want to play the game on my own Nintendo Switch, I'll have to purchase my own copy because I cannot physically share the game. If you buy a game digitally, it's tied to that Nintendo Account. That's why they are incentivising digital purchases over physical purchases - if you buy a game physically, you could pass it around multiple Nintendo Switch consoles (just not concurrently). Nintendo's big fantasy is not only that each family member buy each Switch for themselves, but they buy their own games. (You can set up to eight Nintendo Accounts on one console, but each would have to pay for their own membership if not for the family group.) What's even more likely is that the family of four with one Switch will only use one Nintendo Account, and thus will only buy one individual membership anyway. Nintendo needs to be incentivising multiple Switch purchases, or it won't happen.Ī family of four each spending $300 on a Nintendo Switch, each making their own Nintendo Account, with one family membership is a far greater amount of revenue to Nintendo than a family of four spending $300 on one Nintendo Switch, with four individual memberships. When you have a paid online service with just individual plans, that disincentivises any family wanting to invest in more than one Switch. It's been a common theme over the past couple of financial briefings to Nintendo's investors that they want Nintendo Switch ownership to move from one Nintendo Switch per household to one Nintendo Switch per family. Why would Nintendo offer such a fantastic value in family memberships compared to individual groups? It's a good deal for them. ![]() That's just enough for King Bowser Koopa and all seven of the Koopalings!. I'm a big fan of how they have an eight-member maximum. The family group is a very cost-effective way to have multiple people in one plan. (Children are supposed to be under 13, but can go up to under 18, and all of their information is handled by their parent/guardian.) The family group behind the family plan has a group administrator, and either normal members, or parents and children. The family membership allows for EIGHT people to be in one plan, for $35 a year. To back up a bit, a family group is required to have a family membership plan, which is an alternative to the individual plan for Nintendo Switch Online ($20 for one year for one person). ![]() ![]() If I know the e-mail address you registered your Nintendo Account with, you can join the family! That is because, starting today (May 15), you can set up your own family group! L ast week, I set aside Nintendo's family groups as worthy of their own article when discussing Nintendo Switch Online. By LUDWIG VON KOOPA - We explain family group/membership logistics, and why Nintendo allows it. ![]()
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