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This is by definition "we are just assholes"

Someone play for 5 minutes with a mig switch a legit dump of their own, legally purchased game, just for convenience, to have multiple games on the same cart? The console is now almost useless. You can't play any digital games that you purchased with real money, and physical games can't get any update. Game requires a 20gb day one patch to be playable? Though luck buddy, go to buy a new console!

They stole your console? Oh no! Yes, we absolutely could do the same, as it's bound to your Nintendo account and we could add a button "report as stolen and ban it from internet" in your profile. But we won't, go to buy a new console!

This whole practice, among other things, is so shitty that I decided to not get a Switch 2, having had every Nintendo console since the NES.

But it's important to make the distinction between disabling and bricking. It may seem like a technicality, but that's the kind of thing that'll get a lawsuit dismissed. Not that I have any faith in that process anyway.

Been seeing some of that as well, so I looked it up myself. The actual text of the EULA states:

"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.”

That's a brick. They haven't actually done it to anyone yet, but they've reserved their rights.

Yeah "bricked" means it's as useful as a brick. If this is accurate, you can still use all the offline features, which is less bad than it's previously been described.

They are denying you access to the service rather than your hardware. I prefer how Nintendo goes about it (locking hacked device) compared to Valve or Sony where your entire game library gets locked. As someone with a banned Switch I think that’s fair, I can pirate things on it anyway. Nobody said piracy has to be easy and I enjoy a bit of cat and mouse.

People like that are the reason these fucking corporations are so entitled. The problem is not governments or legislations, the problem is us.

Until we decide that we will not finance companies that pull bullshit like this, no amount of legislation will make them stop.

Wrong, advocate for pro-consumer laws. Today it's a switch, tomorrow its a thing you use. And on that post there will be another snide comment on how idiot customers didn't read the 50 page EULA.

So what you're telling us is we can survive without paying $600 to mega evolve our pokemon like we could 10 years ago?

Just don’t forget that Steam is another corporate run platform and Valve nukes online accounts too.

and you can emulate most switch games seamlessly

I wish his solution worked.

US (lack of) law applies

Residency and place of purchase is what matters, citizenship has nothing to do with it.