Nintendo has launched an replace for the Swap and Swap 2 to assist gifting eShop merchandise, however there’s a catch.
Ver. 23.5.0 provides assist for gifting Nintendo eShop merchandise to members in your Nintendo Account household group solely (as much as eight whole). Meaning you may’t merely present video games to folks in your buddies listing, as different gaming platforms resembling Steam do.
But it surely’s a begin! And this being the household pleasant Nintendo, it in all probability shouldn’t come as a shock to see the corporate take a child steps method to gifting. Within the patch notes, under, Nintendo confirmed that the gifting function might be out there after a Nintendo eShop replace scheduled for November 17, so it’s not dwell but.
However the English web page for the gifting function is dwell, and it confirms the way it will work. It solely contains “eligible” video games in addition to DLC and improve packs. Nintendo itself stated some merchandise might not be eligible for digital gifting. Additionally price noting, supervised accounts aren’t capable of ship digital items, and the variety of digital present purchases allowed in a given interval is restricted.
Right here’s the step-by-step information to Nintendo Swap gifting, per Nintendo:
- Go to Nintendo eShop in your machine and discover the sport you’d like to present as a present.
- From the product web page, choose the Give as a Reward checkbox, then proceed to buy.
- Choose the present recipient from the listing of members of your loved ones group. You’ll additionally have the ability to choose which of their linked programs to ship the present to.
- After choosing your present wrap shade and different choices, you’ll full the acquisition as regular.
Please be aware that items are despatched to your recipient instantly, so make sure you’re prepared!
In the meantime, Ver. 23.5.0 makes “basic changes and fixes have been made to enhance the person expertise,” however Nintendo didn’t go into specifics.
Nintendo Swap and Swap 2 Ver. 23.5.0 patch notes:
- Added the power to configure accessibility settings throughout first-time setup.
- Data on these accessibility settings will be present in Nintendo Swap 2 first-time setup.
- Added assist for an upcoming function to permit gifting of Nintendo eShop merchandise to a Nintendo Account household group member.
- This gifting function might be out there after a Nintendo eShop replace, scheduled for November 17, 2026.
- The next updates have been made in Accessibility in System Settings:
- Added Portuguese (Portugal) to “Textual content to Speech” languages.
- Added Portuguese (Portugal) to the GameChat “Convert Textual content to Speech” languages.
- Basic changes and fixes have been made to enhance the person expertise.