Switch games can have digital manuals if developers choose to create them

Coming from Yacht Club Game’s David D’Angelo...

“You are correct that there isn’t an instruction manual (for Shovel Knight on Switch). We weren’t sure how common they would be used on Nintendo Switch. It’s possible we may add it in the future, but we chose to focus on making sure the game was done since we were rushing to make launch day! We were definitely hemming and hawing about whether to pull more all-nighters to get the manuals in there.”

- Nintendo provides an option for games to have manuals on the system
- game developers have to manually invoke the option to have manuals in their games
- no longer an automatic system-wide digital manual option as there had been on 3DS and Wii U