Well rip Nintendo Switch 2 after *this - Switch 2 is bricked untill a day 1 patch is downloaded. (www.theshortcut.com)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This is bad. Because,

a. Switch 2 can get bricked when Nintendo wants you to upgrade to the "Switch Tree."

b. If you discover a purely unused switch 2 decades later it will be useless. It's bricked unless you get that Switch 2 update.

c. It all ties to that Nintendo bricking terms of service terms.

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[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

Its good to be hyper critical of megacorporations

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

And I never said the contrary.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Not really. People on Lemmy are paranoid. Not saying that corporations are not assholes looking to maximize how much of your money they are getting but they are not out to hurt you. Believe it or not, corporations actually want consumers to like them. Most corporate actions are not evil, they are caused by workers being lazy and cutting corners.

What seems more likely? Nintendo testing remote bricking of systems on customers instead of QA or Nintendo OS developers not having firmware ready by the time manufacturing started (and IT scrambling last minute to bring up update servers in time for launch).

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Considering they have never done this with any of their previous consoles, and the fact that the original switch launched in March 2017, they have no excuse in terms of "being rushed."

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