If you’re playing with friends, you can add their profiles and then delete them later if you need to. Each console lets you have up to eight profiles at once, giving everyone their own space to save files. There is a way around this – you can set up players with a profile on the Switch console itself. Human players have to either be tied to a profile on the console or named a generic “Player 1” or “Player 2” (etc.) name. It’s a quirk of the game, but you can’t set custom player names in Monopoly for Nintendo Switch.

It requires 2.8GB of space on your Switch. Just make sure you’ve got the space for it if you download a lot of games. If you buy the game digitally and download it to your Switch’s internal memory, then it should shave a few seconds off the loading time. If the loading times are bugging you, and you’re using a cartridge version of the game, consider buying it digitally instead (and maybe trading in your cartridge against another game, or selling it). You can skip a lot of the Monopoly Switch starting logos by pressing the plus ‘+’ button on the right Joy-Con, and then the game itself doesn’t take long to set up at all. This is a common question, but Monopoly on Switch doesn’t have to take a long time to load. Set-Up Why does Monopoly on Switch take so long to load?