Any country establishing that this isn’t okay would be a big win.
Other companies do this too but if the Nintendo criticism is what it takes for something to change, I’m all for the change
Whoa…and in a twist that no one expected, Brazil comes out of left field to take up the mantle of “Stop Killing Games”!
I may have a gripe against Brazil for a lot of shit But damn, the consumer rights part, they actually stand up for the consumers They have slapped Nintendo before for it, dont doubt they will again
I don’t understand! Who cares if a guy wants to get more fps. Its a game! You figure out how to get more fps! Right? You paid for the thing, its yours, it not broken and you did not pay for renting the toy or renting the game. So basically Nintendo is breaking peoples consoles in the same way a hacker would.
They aren’t breaking people’s consoles, they are banning them from online services. That means you can’t use the eshop or play online in multiplayer games. I personally don’t like that they are doing this, but I can understand why. If someone can execute unsigned code to get higher fps, they can probably make cheats for games and theoretically destroy the experience for other people online. While the situation does suck, it’s not without any reasoning.
That means you can’t use the eshop
Which is where the issue is. Banning from online play is justifiable, the issue is the rest.
Since most games aren’t even on the cartridges and are downloaded from the eShop even when you buy the physical copy.
Does that ban prevent you from getting game updates?
Does the ban prevent you from using the physical games you’ve purchased?
Because that’s where the issues are. Nintendo can ban the console from online play all they want, their decision of how the Switch 2 handles the actual games and installs means that it would turn the device effectively into a brick.
I don’t believe it prevents you from using physical games like the real ones not the code ones. I didn’t realize that you can’t get updates and that the code carts are so common now I thought that it was just eshop and online play didn’t work anymore which were both essentially non issues on switch 1. You just had to buy your games physical
The current physical carts are only available in 64GB size, and the key only carts are a lot cheaper for the Switch 2. Which means higher profits for the publishers, so of course that’s what most of them are going with.
I don’t actually know if a banned console can still download and install games from a cart, haven’t looked into that specifically. Knowing Nintendo though, they wouldn’t give a shit about customers no longer able to play their purchased games. They don’t care about the customer after purchase in any regard and haven’t for years based on comments and actions they’ve taken.
