How to Gameshare on the Nintendo Switch and Play Online

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good morning and what I want to talk about this morning is how to gain share on the switch and play multiplayer games together with the person your game sharing with before we get started though there is one thing that I need to mention and this is really important and that's that you do not want to do this with anyone who isn't either an extremely close friend or a family member and the reason I have to stress this is because you are sharing your account details when you gain share so you don't want to be game sharing with somebody that you don't really know or someone you from out on the internet or anything like that and I know when I've done this about other consoles PlayStation and Xbox people have moaned at me why are you going on about this but it is really really important so I just want to get that one out of the way right so anyway now we've got out bat out the way let's get into the detail first things first the first player or the primary player has to have their switch set as their primary switch now well the way you can tell if your switch is your primary switch and I've already made videos about this but I just do this quickly is if you go down and you go into the eShop and then you go into your account you and then you go across to the top and you click on that you should see your account details and then you can go all the way down to the bottom and if you see here it says this console D register now if it's not your primary console D register will be grayed out so only if it's your primary console will it be set so you can actually deregister it I don't want to deregister this one because this is my primary console at the moment and I want to show you how to do this using this as my primary console so we can go out of there so let's go back to the desktop right so once you've established which is your primary console you then need to make sure that your second player has an account set up on the first player's primary switch so as I say we've just checked to make sure that this is my primary switch so if we want to use a another user we would need to make sure that they were on the switch so as we can see here johnny test which is one of my test accounts is actually set up on this console and if we go into johnny test briefly if we go down to user settings and check account information family group men members we can actually see that johnny test is part of my family group so let's just go back to the desktop now the reason this is important is because the second user has to either be part of your family group which means they've got an internet connection or a Nintendo switch online connection as part of your family group or they would have to have their own Nintendo switch online account this is only going to work in those two situations they either have to have their own Nintendo switch online account or they have to be part of your family group if you try and do it without them being in your family group and without them being part of Nintendo switch online it will just fail the next one is that the second player has to play on the primary console so if I'm going to be using johnny test johnny test will have to be playing on this console because this is my primary console and not on my second console the first player will the primary player me in this instance joechip can play on any switch they like as long as they're logged in with their account details and that they have an internet connection again if you don't have an internet connection on the secondary switch this won't work obviously if you're playing online games then you're going to need a an internet connection anyway but even with offline games this is going to be a problem and I actually made a video about this the other day talking about how you can use your secondary switch even as the primary user if you're not logged on so that's a little bit of a pain in the neck so okay hopefully that's all clear and let's go in and show you what I mean you can actually go in and play and together so the game I'm going to choose is fast rmx so I'm gonna go into fast R and X and I'm gonna choose johnny test as i said before this is joe chips primary console johnny test is going to be playing on joe chips primary console so we load up fast r MX and so we've got fast rmx loaded up and we want to go into multiplayer and then go into online communication friends now this is going to be different obviously for each game because they've got online set up in different ways but this is how you do it in fast R and X so click on that and then I'm going to just choose any old machine and it says starting multiplayer ok so I'm just going to choose the first track and as you can see here it says Johnny test's and it's looking for other players so now if you can see here I've got my other console set up and I'm gonna select fast rmx on there and I'm gonna choose joechip this is my secondary console and I'm gonna play as joechip on my secondary console and as you can see I'm going to go into multiplayer again just turn this down select multiplayer and go down to online communication friends choose the same one and it's starting multiplayer and I'm going to choose the same track and it's there that you can see on my first console we've got johnny test and joe chip and they're both playing and as you can see I can play on this one and I can play on this one so hopefully that is some use so anyway let's get out of that for the minute and close the software and what I want to do now is show you what happens when you try and do it when you're using an account that isn't part of the family group or doesn't have its own Nintendo switch online account so if we go up and we look at glimmerings page this is another test account I set up if I click on this one and I go down to user settings and then I go down to check account information and then family group members you'll see that it's not a member of my family group and neither does it have a Nintendo switch online account associated with it because I'm not buying two of them certainly not this stage so what happens if I try and play fast rmx with glimmerings account on my primary switch goes into the fast rmx okay so I can play fast rmx as a secondary user who hasn't got a Nintendo switch online account but what happens when I go into multiplayer let's do online communication friends again please wait and then it comes up with this a paid membership to Nintendo switch online is required so because this account isn't associated with my family group it can actually play online even though you can play with the account with games well I could play fast rmx to my heart's content offline so if we go back from there if I go into championship this should work fine and it's loading up and as you can see it's loading up perfectly fine and it should run perfectly I'm holding the button there but as you can see that works as long as I'm not trying to play online so you do need to be associated with the family group or have a Nintendo switch online account for the secondary player but anyway I think that's it I don't think there's anything else to talk about there it's a bit of a palaver as I say just going through what you have to do again the first player has to have the switch set as their primary switch the second player has to have the account their account set up on the first players primary switch and the second player has to play on the first players primary switch that makes sense the first player can play on any switch as long as they're logged on and they have an internet connection so hopefully that will help you set it up it's relatively straightforward but it does take a bit of getting your head round so let me know in the comments if you've had any problems with this ask me any questions because I've spent quite a long time trying to work this out and there's quite a lot of in misinformation out there about how you'd have to do this and a lot of people are saying you have to set up a third account and all this kind of stuff and you don't you can do it with two accounts as long as both accounts have Nintendo switch online or the second account is part of the family group and the second player has to play on the primary switch of the first player oh bit of a palaver I know but anyway as I say I hope that one helps if it does let me know in the comments and if it does give us a thumbs up as well anyway I'm gonna gonna grab myself a cup of tea and I'll speak to you guys in the next one by you you
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Channel: Joe Chip
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Keywords: Gameshare on the Nintendo Switch, Gameshare, Game Share, How to Gameshare on the Nintendo Switch and Play Online, Gameshare with the Switch, Share your games and play online, Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch Lite
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Length: 13min 11sec (791 seconds)
Published: Thu Sep 26 2019
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