Though it has been a staple on the likes of Steam for well over a decade now, purchasing a digital game for your friend on consoles has been a tricky endeavour, with Xbox being the sole system to offer such functionality. Finally, it appears as though Nintendo is getting with the times, announcing that Switch users will soon be able to gift digital games to others – albeit with a catch.
Taking to their blog to make the announcement, Nintendo revealed that they will officially start to allow gifting games through their eShop come the 16th of November. Nintendo being Nintendo however, the feature does come with some caveats; namely the fact that you can only gift items to those who are part of your ‘Family Group’.
On the flip-side, with Nintendo being Nintendo, they’ve managed to bring an added element of ‘fun’ to the functionality. Upon purchasing a gift for your family member, users will be able to digitally wrap the present with a variety of different colours.
This also means that recipients will not know what they have been gifted until they ‘unwrap’ the present – adding a nice element of surprise to the mix.
Despite the relatively harsh limitations, it is welcome to see digital gifting finally coming to the Switch in any form. All that’s left now is for PlayStation to follow suit.
KitGuru says: Do you use digital game gifting often? What do you think of Nintendo’s implementation? Let us know down below.
