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Originally Posted by Charu

I mean, we could totally all pitch in to negate the cost of the "online" portion of the Switch

Yep. Doing some research on the subject, the way they plan on having the new system work is that you can pay $34.99 USD to have everyone in a family group have online access for 1 year. No asterisks attached.

Fortunately, family groups are not tied to nintendo switch systems. They are tied to your Nintendo Account. So, as long as you have your Nintendo account tied to your nintendo switch, and you are in someone's family group where the administrator of the family group has purchased a 1-year family group membership, then everyone in the family group gets online, with the same benefits and perks as if they had a 1-year solo membership.

All it would need is an e-mail that is tied to a Nintendo account whom is not part of a family group. Nintendo sends out an invite link to the family group to the e-mail, and any account on a nintendo switch that is linked with the same nintendo account will have online. People can leave the family group at any time (granted they are not a family group-generated child account).