How is that possible? The digital games are only playable on the owner account, and accounts can only sign in on one PS4 at a time. I've tried this with my brother's PS4 and my own, he's get signed out every time I tried to sign in to play a game.

It going to work on your account not other

@porkChop If one console is set as the primary device then it it doesn't need to be logged in to verify licenses.

Isn't this exactly what nintendo is doing? You can have your acct on multiple consoles but only one at a time can access the game?

Yeah I gave my fat Xbox One to a friend in turn for his old graphics card since I bought the S and he is able to play all of the digital games in my collection.

Worked out for the both of us since he mostly plays on PC so he wouldn't have to shell out a bunch of money on a console he plays only some of the time and being a broke college student.

@Quicksand
Nope, on the PS4 and Xbox One the digital license are linked to both the console you have set up as your Home/Primary console and the account you bought the digital game on, so you can access and share a digital game with two different consoles at the same time.

I read the article (crazy, i know).

Question: can downloads be shared through multiple consoles?

From Nintendo Entertainment Planning & Development General Manager Shinya Takahashi:

"Currently we don't have a system like that in place for Nintendo Switch, but we haven't made any final decisions about how we would approach that going forward in the future, so unfortunately I can't provide any concrete answer for you right now."

It says nothing about multiple users on a single console. But even the WiiU allows downloads to be shared across the accounts of a SINGLE console.

I think you're confused here.

Switch will most likely allow all accounts to play the same games if they're on the same system, no matter who's the owner. It works like that on the Wii U.

What you won't be able to do, is to share the game across 2 Switch consoles. Only one.

No if it's on the same console you can just change the user and they get their own save file. You only have to buy the game again if the profiles are on two separate consoles.