Playing games by yourself can be a lot of fun, but it can also be somewhat lonely. There's an easy way to kick those solitary blues: playing games with others, especially with the Nintendo Switch! Gather your siblings and parents and engage in some friendly competition, or introduce your family members to cooperative entertainment. Allows up to eight Nintendo Accounts in a family group to use Nintendo Switch Online services, provided the accounts are set to supported countries. Family memberships can be purchased only.
Note
- Up to 7 additional members can be added to a Nintendo Account family group.
- When any member of a family group purchases a Nintendo Switch Online family membership, the Nintendo Switch Online service is available to everyone in the family group.
- Each family group has one admin. The admin is the only person that can add or remove members from the family group.
- Children under age 13 can only be added by an admin aged 18+.
- Nintendo Accounts that are already included in a family group can be removed from the group or added to a different family group.
Complete these steps
Nintendo Switch Family Game Night
- Log in to the admin Nintendo Account for the family group.
- If you don’t yet have a Nintendo Account, visit the Nintendo Account website to create one.
- Click Nintendo Account in the upper-left corner of the screen to access your account settings.
- Select Family group.
- Select Add member.
- This option only appears for the family group’s admin. If this option isn’t appearing, review the other members in the family group to verify the admin. The admin will need to either add the new member or transfer the admin rights to you before you can continue.