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This was way more confusing than it had to be.

TL;DR: You can lend your digital games to friends & family for 14 days, but both consoles need to connect locally to enable this...(?)

You can't play digital games you've lent out during this time. I guess the point is making it similar to giving your friend a physical game cartridge.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Its a strategic time for this regime to be implemented. With a sequel console on the horizon a lot of households are going to become 2 switch families soon. Anything to make customers more comfortable spending money will speed the uptake.

For PlayStation I liked they way they let each user nominate 1 primary PS4 and 1 primary PS5. They both could play the PS4 library without restriction so the old console was a perfect hand-me-down.

In comparison for Xbox they have maintained that the whole platform is homogeneous with each account only allowed one home console at a time be it One or Series.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

This household will be migrating to steamdeck or equivalent. We've invested too much into PC games and moving our main desktops to Linux, it only seems right. I'm tired of supporting companies that don't care about us, only our money, and even then slap you when you're not looking.