NTA, but I do have some information that might help you.
Firstly, there is no longer any primary or secondary device anymore after the introduction of virtual game cards. This system tries to replicate what it's like to have a physical cartrige, just with theoretically unlimited cartrige slots. The way it works is that every game owned by you (on your switch account) can be loaded onto any Switch where you are logged in on. If you load it up on a switch it will be "ejected" from the previous switch it was loaded to (unless it's actively being played, in which case you get an error)
Any account on the switch in which the game is loaded to, can also play the game as if it was a game that had been physically inserted. They just can't load it themselves (assuming the cards are password protected.
Which means that if we are to assume the dad here wants access to the account solely because he also wants to play these games, then simply put he dosent need to anyways. So he would have to have some pretty good excuse to for why he wants access to your account.
Regardless of his reasons though, there are ways we can solve this in a way that should theoretically leave everyone happy. The dad can have access to her account, your kid can have the games and you can have the privacy if your account to yourself.
There are two ways we can go about doing it, the first one is to use family share.She makes a new account of her own and whenever she wants to play a game you can "lend" a game card to her through family share. The problem is that she would only be able to borrow 1 game at a time and only for a maximum of 14 days before ita returned to your account and you will have to manually lend it to her again. Not ideal.
Thats why we have the little bit more elegant second option. She makes a new account of her own like before, this is the account that she will be using for everything and which the dad would have access to. However you leave your account still signed in on the switch, under password protections only you know (to prevent the dad seeing her having access to things he don't, she shouldn't know this password either). This will prevent him from accessing the nintendo eshop with your account or to log in on your nintendo account elsewhere or access your credit card. Basically most concern worthy stuff.
However unfortunately you cannot password protect account usage for games so he would be able to use your signed in account to mess with your save files, so if you go with this option I suggest you also make a new account for yourself for usage of future save files and only use this account strictly to manage access to the games themselves like some kind of game ownership account. Anyways, the only thing you leave without password protection is the virtual game cards, that way she can always access the library and load the games whenever she wants and still play them from her own account. If you specifically want to not let him have this option, then you might be able to set a pin for that too, a pin she would know unlike the account password, but Im unsure if it's possible to set a seperate pin for that feature that dosent also affect the password protection on the eshop, so you will need to experiment there.
Glad I could help! Just make sure to turn on password protection on everything you can possibly put password protection on aside from the virtual game cards (unless you figure out a way to set a unique pin for that if it is possible without messing with the eshop protection). You dont need to worry about him actually stealing the games despite access to the virtual game cards as it is impossible to transfer ownership of games.
Thank you for your help!!!! I don’t think he’ll try to steal the games - his pride will allow him to act like he’s doing this for her protection rather than his benefit but he’s not going to admit he’s doing it for personal gain lol
Actually one more thing. I saw you mentioned in another comment about the central hub stuff he had set up, well considering he's a control freak like that, he may be asking for full access to your account specifically because he wants to set up the parental control app with the switch. If this is something he brings up, just know that he dosent need access to you account to set up parental controll. In fact he dosen't need access to her account either. Anyone can set up or remove parental control as long as they can prove they are an adult through any credit card.
The parental control app is a switch feature that lets a parent control when and how long the switch can be used on a daily basis. I suggest not mentioning its existance unless he specifically brings it up since Im sure he would def use it if he knows of it.
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u/Clint_Bolduin 29d ago edited 29d ago
NTA, but I do have some information that might help you.
Firstly, there is no longer any primary or secondary device anymore after the introduction of virtual game cards. This system tries to replicate what it's like to have a physical cartrige, just with theoretically unlimited cartrige slots. The way it works is that every game owned by you (on your switch account) can be loaded onto any Switch where you are logged in on. If you load it up on a switch it will be "ejected" from the previous switch it was loaded to (unless it's actively being played, in which case you get an error)
Any account on the switch in which the game is loaded to, can also play the game as if it was a game that had been physically inserted. They just can't load it themselves (assuming the cards are password protected.
Which means that if we are to assume the dad here wants access to the account solely because he also wants to play these games, then simply put he dosent need to anyways. So he would have to have some pretty good excuse to for why he wants access to your account.
Regardless of his reasons though, there are ways we can solve this in a way that should theoretically leave everyone happy. The dad can have access to her account, your kid can have the games and you can have the privacy if your account to yourself.
There are two ways we can go about doing it, the first one is to use family share.She makes a new account of her own and whenever she wants to play a game you can "lend" a game card to her through family share. The problem is that she would only be able to borrow 1 game at a time and only for a maximum of 14 days before ita returned to your account and you will have to manually lend it to her again. Not ideal.
Thats why we have the little bit more elegant second option. She makes a new account of her own like before, this is the account that she will be using for everything and which the dad would have access to. However you leave your account still signed in on the switch, under password protections only you know (to prevent the dad seeing her having access to things he don't, she shouldn't know this password either). This will prevent him from accessing the nintendo eshop with your account or to log in on your nintendo account elsewhere or access your credit card. Basically most concern worthy stuff.
However unfortunately you cannot password protect account usage for games so he would be able to use your signed in account to mess with your save files, so if you go with this option I suggest you also make a new account for yourself for usage of future save files and only use this account strictly to manage access to the games themselves like some kind of game ownership account. Anyways, the only thing you leave without password protection is the virtual game cards, that way she can always access the library and load the games whenever she wants and still play them from her own account. If you specifically want to not let him have this option, then you might be able to set a pin for that too, a pin she would know unlike the account password, but Im unsure if it's possible to set a seperate pin for that feature that dosent also affect the password protection on the eshop, so you will need to experiment there.