How Nintendo locked down the Switch 2’s USB-C port and broke third-party docking

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• thingsiplay@beehaw.org ⁨13⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  Nintendoesn’t

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• sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Knock knock, Nintendo.

  Suprise!

  Its the Consumer Protection and Defense agency of Brazil!

  dexerto.com/…/nintendo-faces-legal-action-over-ab…

  Yeah, Brazil is evidently not cool with the ‘we can completely brick your device remotely’ schtick.

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  • SalamenceFury@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yep. And unlike most toothless consumer protection agencies in the US, Procon does not fuck around. They’ll even straight up force gaming companies to unban someone from a game if the person felt the ban was unfair, and force them to not only return their entire progress, but all of their items and pay them a sum for the damages.

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    • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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  • SunshineJogger@feddit.org ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I guess if the German “verbraucherschutz” hears this they might also pitch in once the German bureaucracy has run a few months for it

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• noride@lemmy.zip ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I read about Nintendo’s ability effectively brick them remotely yesterday and decided to cancel my order. I have had every Nintendo console since the NES, for better or worse, but I am definitely skipping this one.

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  • Omegamint@hexbear.net ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I won’t even consider buying one until they’re fully hackable. Until then I’d rather invest in my steamdeck and PC.

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    • Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I have the mindset that I buy one for the lowest firmware, because nintendo always has people trying to hack it (successfully). Nintendo has very low investment in actually trying to get a proper OS engineer design their OS security. Youd basically have to go as far back as the fucking virtual boy to look for something non exploitable, and thats just because no one bothered with it.

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  • Hestia@hexbear.net ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Get a steam deck and pirate any of the games you want

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    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I have a steam deck and figured out how to emulate BoTW.

      I was initially disappointed by my inability to get it to run at better than roughly 20-25 fps even after some tweaks and bullshit.

      … Then I realized that the Switch 1, in handheld mode… can’t actually do much better, claims to run at 30fps, frequently has framerate drop spikes.

      So yeah, a Deck does a pretty good job, as has always been the case with emulators: its a bit less efficient than the native hardware env on the most demanding titles, but a Switch 1 can barely fucking run BoTW properly as well.

      My next attempt at this?

      See if I can jerry rig FSR 2 in the emulator to run it at a lower res and then upscale.

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    • theOneTrueSpoon@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      What sites can you pirate switch games from? So I know to stay away from them

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  • LilB0kChoy@midwest.social ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I know ‘canceled’ is the American spelling but it looks weird to me without the second L.

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    • crazyminner@lemmy.ml ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Oh my god, it does have two L’s. I’ve been losing my mind this entire time for like the past… Well since getting auto correct.

      I thought I was just bad at spelling.

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  • Sunshine@piefed.ca ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The steam deck has been the direct replacement for the Nintendo switch for me.

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  • masterbaexunn@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Just wait til it’s hacked bro. No way they are keeping this thing secure.

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• Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Everything about Switch 2 has made me hate every choice Nintendo has made.

  Guess I’ll sit out this generation, and focus on backlogs. Then in 10 years, I can always just pirate the Switch 2 catalog.

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• LiveLM@lemmy.zip ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Can’t believe they did it again.
  While on the Switch 1 it might have been because the USB PD spec wasn’t fully finalized when it was made, on the 2 they’re being actively malicious.

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  • LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    football-lucy football-charlie-brown

    fell-for-it-again-award fell

    fell-for-it-again fell

    neon-fell-for-it-evangelion fell

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• hakase@sh.itjust.works ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Everyone who actually buys a Switch 2 deserves exactly what they get.

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  • BrikoX@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You’re not wrong, though we should still advocate for consumer protections to stop this abuse.

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• NutinButNet@hilariouschaos.com ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Just another example of Nintendo sucking.

  I’m so glad I didn’t buy this piece of shit. Keep your junk, Nintendo. I’ll enjoy your games on PC when emulation comes.

  Which is funny because I would have been a paying customer. But now I don’t have to!

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• steal_your_face@lemmy.ml ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Archive: archive.ph/mK3nI

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