How to Play Your Games Across Multiple Nintendo Switch 2 or Nintendo Switch Consoles
Steps for sharing games across multiple consoles in your household.
What to do
What would you like to do?
Your game save data, digital games and downloadable content are tied to your Nintendo Account.
If you are replacing a Nintendo Switch 2 or Nintendo Switch console with a Nintendo Switch 2 console, we recommend that you perform a system transfer to move your data from the original console to your replacement console.
This transfer moves all Nintendo Accounts, user profiles, save data, and Nintendo eShop purchases to the replacement console.
If you are replacing a Nintendo Switch console with another Nintendo Switch console, transfer your user data from the original console to your replacement console.
This will move your Nintendo Account, user, save data and Nintendo eShop purchases to the replacement console.
Data is moved one user at a time, so you can keep other users on the original console.
What type of games do you want to play on the consoles?
Additional information
Game save data is associated with your Nintendo Account and the console you use. If you want to use the same save data on different consoles, you can transfer the data or use the Save Data Cloud feature with supported software if you have a Nintendo Switch Online membership.
Transferring save data will remove the save data from the source console and move it to the target console.
You can transfer save data as often as you need.
For details, read How to Transfer Your Save Data To a Nearby Nintendo Switch Console.
Will you be sharing physical game cards or downloaded games/content?