Can’t brick what I’m not gonna buy in the first place.
Nintendo of America might turn your Switch into an expensive paperweight if you mod your console or install any "unauthorized" games, new policy warns
Submitted 3 weeks ago by Sunshine@lemmy.ca to technology@lemmy.zip
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hungprocess@lemmy.sdf.org 2 weeks ago
Lemminary@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Seriously. I don’t even glance at the titles I would’ve bought on a good day otherwise. Fuck all that.
Noodle07@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Sold mine for a deck, they can try all they want I dont care
Lightor@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
So Nintendo just rapid firing bad PR now or what?
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Bad PR isn’t new for Nintendo
This is the same company that doesn’t allow bad reviews on YouTube
rumba@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
They’re just taking notes from the US tech companies.
JiveTurkey@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Nintendo can fuck off
Tronn4@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Now ima hack my switch even harder
TachyonTele@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
Your switch has always been in danger of being bricked if you mod it. This isn’t new.
DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Sure of self ignorance. Not intentional malfeasance to destroy from the manufacturer
nunya@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
intentional malfeasance Just found a name for my band.
drunkosaurus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
OK let’s clarify it Nintendo, whose console it is really? Mine?
chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
No, it’s theirs. You agree to be bricked when you buy it!
realcaseyrollins@narwhal.city 3 weeks ago
Any benefit to even doing that rather than getting a Steam Deck and modding that?
HubertManne@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
one reason I got a deck is long term it can work as a mini linux machine even when I upgrade to something better eventually.
realcaseyrollins@narwhal.city 2 weeks ago
Makes sense, the Steam Deck does give me UMPC vibes
dditty@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
I have both a v1 Switch I’ve home brewed and a Steam Deck OLED. I never really use the switch anymore
samus12345@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
Playing the handful of Switch 2 exclusive games.
skozzii@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
The switch does play certain games better, switch 2 games won’t emulate as well until a steamdeck 2 in assuming.
Imo not worth having the switch unless you like the small size and portability. Switch 2 is just stupid to me, too big and non-oled. It’s not sure whether it wants to be a console or a handheld so it decided to just suck at both.
realcaseyrollins@narwhal.city 2 weeks ago
If I were getting into Switches, I'd get a Switch too. It's more powerful, so it'd probably run older games better, and new games will likely be Switch 2 exclusive, at least at some point. If I need portability on-the-go, I'd probably get a Switch Lite, which is available at extremely reasonable prices these days.
_____@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
Worry not, Japan has terrible developers. Whatever system is in place likely has thousands of attack vectors to prevent it from ever happening.
SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
It’s because they all drink instead of going home at night.
Ahh, the life of a salaryman
CrayonDevourer@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It has to do with their online services; not the switch itself.
There’s nothing in here about bricking your console if you mod it.
Lightor@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It has to do with their online services; not the switch itself.
Just wrong
Literally from the terms:
“You acknowledge that if you fail to comply with the foregoing restrictions Nintendo may render the Nintendo Account Services and/or the applicable Nintendo device permanently unusable in whole or in part.”
CrayonDevourer@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Context matters here, they are specifically talking about Nintendo Account Services - and they have to include the device, because disabling nintendo account services could render the device “unusable”.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Isn’t the new switch internet tied? I thought the carriages for the Switch 2 were just digital licenses.
CrayonDevourer@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
There are digital license versions from what I understand, and then there are full-fat versions. Unless something has changed.
markovs_gun@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Is this news? I’ve been modding consoles for over a decade and this has always been part of it. Just because Nintendo has historically been really bad at it in the past doesn’t mean this hasn’t always been the name of the game.
cm0002@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
They’ve long since done this, that’s why the prevailing advice for those who could afford it was “Get one Switch for piracy and one for everything you want to do online”
I suppose they’re just officially covering their bases in legal talk now
TachyonTele@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
Yup. Anyone thinking this is even remotely new has never simply glanced at switch modding.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
Wasn’t that already true?
DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
No one has reported anyone actually getting this as an update so likely they stealth updated this for switch 2 release
DemBoSain@midwest.social 2 weeks ago
I shouldn’t be worried that Nintendo can remotely brick my $500 console. For any reason. Or accidentally.
dhtseany@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
This should be highly illegal, regardless of supposed copyright arguments.