Buying my brother's Switch

[davve146]

Hi guys!

 

As the title says I'm buying my brother's Switch off him. I really want to play Smash Bros Ultimate today so I was just about to buy it in the e-shop when I realised that the game will be connected to his account. And there's the problem.

 

Basically I've been googling for an hour or so with no results on how accounts and digital games work. My brother has both Rocket League and Mario Kart 8 del. and I want to have those games linked to my Nintendo account too. The only 3 solutions I can think of are:

 

1) Changing his Nintendo account's email to mine and basically taking over his account. But that would mean I'd have to delete that email from my own Nintendo account which I have other things on.

 

2) Find some way to transfer those games to my Nintendo account and create my own user on the switch itself linked to it.

 

3) Creating a new email address exclusively for that account.

 

I'd like to hear you guys' opinions on the topic. Quick answers would be appreciated because like I stated earlier I really wanna start playing smash.

[danomicar]

The switch allows you to have multiple profiles on it. You can just create your own profile on the switch and link your nintendo account to it.

 

Whenever you want to play games that were bought on your brothers account, you'll need to open the games under his profile.

[minibois]

6 hours ago, danomicar said:

The switch allows you to have multiple profiles on it. You can just create your own profile on the switch and link your nintendo account to it.

 

Whenever you want to play games that were bought on your brothers account, you'll need to open the games under his profile.

Couldn't you just open 'his' games under your own account? Because it is installed on your Switch, I think you can just open the game up.

But i don't have enough experience with Switch digital games + multiple account.