Nintendo can’t get enough of cartridges. Even its digital downloads are turning into “Virtual Game Cards” on the Nintendo Switch. After an April update, each game you own digitally will become its own instance of a title, which means you’ll be able to send your cards to a nearby Switch, a friend’s Switch, or—we expect—the Nintendo Switch 2.

Starting in late April, all digital games you own or buy will become Virtual Game Cards. These will be stored in a new menu screen on your Switch or Switch 2. Nintendo says any registered user on the console can play that digital game.

Switch 2 world, Nintendo is trying to rethink how sharing games works. The biggest announcement from the company's latest Direct was its upcoming Virtual Game Cards feature, a new approach to sharing digital games that improves on the company's current system,