Essentially, if one Switch is offline in some way, you can still play the same game at the same time across two Switches. Eurogamer tested this and verified the system works. The big change is that, if you want to play the same game online at the same time, that loophole appears to be closed.

The Nintendo Switch received a major firmware update today that paves the way for its integration with the Switch 2 and institutes a less than stellar new regime of virtual game sharing. But firmware version 20.