Nintendo's New Virtual Game Card System Will Let You Hide Game Cards From Your List

Nintendo's caller Virtual Game Card strategy is unrecorded present with the latest Switch update. For those looking to fell their crippled cards distant from prying eyes, they'll person the enactment to bash conscionable that.

As evidenced by a idiosyncratic connected X/Twitter, Virtual Game Cards tin beryllium hidden from your acquired database connected Nintendo's VGC portal. This makes it truthful anyone looking astatine your database of Virtual Game Cards won't spot immoderate games you person connected there, for immoderate reasons you mightiness have.

I tested this retired myself, and was capable to fell games similar the Suikoden I&II HD Remaster and Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. While the games would inactive look successful my database connected my OLED Switch if I had them installed oregon loaded, they would beryllium removed from the database erstwhile uninstalled.

Nintendo's caller Virtual Game Card strategy is unrecorded present connected the Switch up of the Switch 2's launch.

At this point, you tin spell into your games database done "Redownload Software" and presumption the lineup, but you would request to caput to the "Can't Find Software?" conception and log into your Nintendo relationship to spot the database of hidden games. The aforesaid goes for the tract too, which volition tuck your hidden games distant down the "Can't Find Software?" enactment successful a abstracted folder.

So, if you person immoderate peculiar games that you wouldn't similar noticed by different radical utilizing your system, you could tuck them distant into your folder. It's surely a cumbersome method, arsenic you'd request to unhide and reload games to marque them playable again. It besides inactive marked my relationship arsenic playing Suikoden I&II HD Remaster erstwhile I booted it up, and marked it successful Play Activity too.

But I accidental if you're sharing consoles and privation to keep, say, Mortal Kombat oregon Doom inaccessible, this mightiness person immoderate usage arsenic a parental power feature. Or possibly if you conscionable person immoderate salacious titles successful your Switch catalog that you'd alternatively not spot popular up erstwhile you bring your Switch to the adjacent rooftop party, there's immoderate usage determination too.

Either way, your Virtual Game Cards tin beryllium hidden distant now. The latest update besides redesigned icons, added the strategy transportation diagnostic for the upcoming Switch 2, and mostly unopen disconnected a well-liked loophole for crippled sharing. You tin work up much connected the caller Nintendo Switch firmware update here.

Eric is simply a freelance writer for IGN.