{"id":48888,"date":"2018-09-19T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-19T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/09\/guide_7_things_you_didnt_know_you_could_do_with_nintendo_switch_online"},"modified":"2018-09-19T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-09-19T17:00:00","slug":"guide-7-things-you-didnt-know-you-could-do-with-nintendo-switch-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/09\/19\/guide-7-things-you-didnt-know-you-could-do-with-nintendo-switch-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Guide: 7 Things You Didn&#8217;t Know You Could Do With Nintendo Switch Online"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/ac4cf00bb041d\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/ac4cf00bb041d\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<aside class=\"picture strip\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"Nintendo App\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/ac4cf00bb041d\/nintendo-app.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/ac4cf00bb041d\/nintendo-app.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Nintendo App\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Now that Nintendo Switch Online has officially launched, you&#8217;ve got to make a real decision if you want to continue playing online multiplayer in games like <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/splatoon_2\">Splatoon 2<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/mario_kart_8_deluxe\">Mario Kart 8 Deluxe<\/a><\/strong>, and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/arms\">ARMS<\/a><\/strong>. That service is no longer available for free, and requires a Nintendo Switch Online membership.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, you get a little more than just online multiplayer. Much like PS+ and Xbox Live Gold, the service also comes with &#8216;free&#8217; games, special offers, and other fancy little extras like cloud saves. So it might be that online multiplayer isn&#8217;t important to you, but playing <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nes\/balloon_fight\">Balloon Fight<\/a><\/strong> is. No judgement.<\/p>\n<p>Whether you&#8217;ve bought Nintendo Switch Online or not, we thought we&#8217;d round up a few things that you can easily miss amongst all the Nintendo Switch Online excitement. It has a nifty few features that you have to actually dig in the internet to discover, and we&#8217;re going to go into more detail about each of them below.<\/p>\n<h2>Try It For Free<\/h2>\n<p>You could argue that we&#8217;ve been trying Nintendo Switch Online for free since the launch of the Switch itself, but the new free trial lets you try the extras without paying a penny. That includes cloud saving, NES games, and online multiplayer.<\/p>\n<p>To get your hands on the free trial, simply visit the eShop after updating your system, scroll down to &#8216;Nintendo Switch Online&#8217;, and choose the option for a free trial. That&#8217;s it, you&#8217;re good to go.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"picture strip\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"Nintendo Switch Online\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/db4d57eb501c2\/nintendo-switch-online.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/db4d57eb501c2\/nintendo-switch-online.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Nintendo Switch Online\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>It&#8217;s worth bearing in mind though that this will set up an automatic renewal for the monthly membership, so you might want to cancel that if you&#8217;re unsure or you want to opt for another membership type, like perhaps&#8230;<\/p>\n<h2>Get It Cheaper Using A Family Group<\/h2>\n<p>If you sign up for a Family Membership, rather than an Individual Membership, you can get Nintendo Switch Online for as little as $5 per year. That involves rounding up eight Nintendo Account holders under a single family group banner.<\/p>\n<p>There aren&#8217;t many restrictions either \u2013 it doesn&#8217;t matter where the Nintendo Account holders are globally or anything like that. We&#8217;ve written a guide on how to do so right here, so if you&#8217;re sold on this plan (why wouldn&#8217;t you be?) follow the instructions by following the link above.<\/p>\n<h2>Play Your Games On A Friend&#8217;s Switch<\/h2>\n<p>Here&#8217;s probably the biggest open secret: you can now play your purchased games on another Nintendo Switch console. There are caveats though. For example, you can only play your games on a single Switch unit at any given time, ruling out playing multiplayer on two separate consoles under the same account.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a few things you need to know in bullet point form:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The first time you use your Nintendo Account to connect to the eShop, that Nintendo Switch console will be activated as your primary console.<\/li>\n<li>Following that, you can link your Nintendo Account to another Switch console, though it will have different functionality.<\/li>\n<li>You can visit the eShop on this secondary console and download your purchases then play them on that system.<\/li>\n<li>You do have to have an active internet connection to play them though. If the connection goes down, the game will pause after a certain amount of time, and you won&#8217;t be able to continue playing until the internet is back up.<\/li>\n<li>Other Nintendo Accounts linked to that system can&#8217;t play your downloadable content.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That is, in a nutshell, how it works. Go give it a try.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"picture strip\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"Nintendo Nes Switc\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/945f85f1a3531\/nintendo-nes-switc.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/945f85f1a3531\/nintendo-nes-switc.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Nintendo Nes Switc\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<h2>Get Some Free Gear In Splatoon 2<\/h2>\n<p>This is only for those with an annual membership. If you choose to sign up with that option, you&#8217;ll receive a download code in an email that you can use to get yourself some free branded gear in Splatoon 2.<\/p>\n<p>The primary account holder for a Family Group will receive eight codes that they can pass on to family members, so keep pestering them until they cough up the goods.<\/p>\n<h2>Play Classic NES Games Online With A Friend<\/h2>\n<p>I think everyone knows that Nintendo Switch Online comes laden with &#8216;free&#8217; NES games, but did you know that you can play certain titles against (or with) a friend online? It&#8217;s easy to miss that in all of the excitement.<\/p>\n<p>But when you boot up the app on your Switch, you&#8217;ll receive an option to play online with friends, or to play on your lonesome in single player. If you choose the former option, you can easily play with a friend in a bunch of different titles. Awesome stuff.<\/p>\n<h2>Play NES Games With Actual NES Controllers<\/h2>\n<p>Again, Nintendo hasn&#8217;t been super clear with this, but official wireless NES controllers are on their way, allowing you to play NES games as originally intended.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"picture strip\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"Splatoon 2\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/af36060719356\/splatoon-2.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/af36060719356\/splatoon-2.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Splatoon 2\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>However, you can only purchase these if you are an active Nintendo Switch Online member, and even then it&#8217;s not entirely clear how to get them.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, we&#8217;re here to help you do just that. Visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/nesc.nintendo.com\/nintendo-entertainment-system-controllers\">official Nintendo site<\/a> and login to your Nintendo Account to pre-purchase the NES controllers. You get a bundle of two of them for $60, and they&#8217;ll arrive at your doorstop in December.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s important to note that you can only get a single set of NES controllers per Nintendo Account, and only then if you&#8217;re an active Nintendo Switch Online member.<\/p>\n<p>Right now, pre-purchasing is limited to North America. Hopefully that will open up to more regions soon.<\/p>\n<h2>Chat With Your Friends And Access Extra Game Content With The Nintendo Switch Online App<\/h2>\n<p>Last, but certainly not least, you can use the Nintendo Switch Online App to voice chat with your friends in a bunch of different games. Up to this point, it&#8217;s been limited, with only Splatoon 2 getting any real use out of it, but that&#8217;s changed with the official launch.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"picture strip\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"Nes\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/787e4d31f8961\/nes.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/787e4d31f8961\/nes.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Nes\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<ul>\n<li>Now you can use it for:<\/li>\n<li>NES games<\/li>\n<li>Mario Kart 8 Deluxe<\/li>\n<li>ARMS<\/li>\n<li>Splatoon 2<\/li>\n<li>Mario Tennis Aces<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It&#8217;s highly likely that this list will grow over time too, so keep an eye on the app for a bunch more games.<\/p>\n<p><em>Have you bought Nintendo Switch Online yet? Found any neat features that you think we should know about? Let us know all about it in the comments section below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that Nintendo Switch Online has officially launched, you&#8217;ve got to make a real decision if you want to continue playing online multiplayer in games like Splatoon 2, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, and ARMS. That service is no longer available for free, and requires a Nintendo Switch Online membership. 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