• jaschen@lemm.ee
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    So a few years ago I wanted to play a Japanese version of a rhythm game that isn’t available to purchase in the USA and decided to try my hand at modding my switch for this one game.

    After(poorly) doing it, I wasn’t able to play that game AND Nintendo bricked me. All my games on my switch that I purchased were unable to download or play anymore.

    So I went and set out to mod my switch correctly.

    Now if I actually wanted to give Nintendo money, they won’t allow me to. So my only option from then on is to pirate.

    They basically turned a potentially paying customer to a non paying customer.

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    I’ve been pretty consistently buying Nintendo consoles, but I’m not buying this one. Not just because of this, but I challenge these assholes to brick the device I end up playing their games on.

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    Damn, first they get shady patents and now this. They’re really on a roll for being a pretty unethical company.

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    At this point I’m surprised Nintendo still allows people to play their games at their own homes, and not exclusively in official Nintendo-branded Play Rooms that only exist in like 6 places outside Tokyo and costs $20/hr to rent.

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    At this point I want Switch 2 to flop so hard they go the way of the Sega and start licensing their IPs on other platforms, giving up on consoles. A shame, too, since their tech is little kid hand friendly and the PC market doesn’t seem keen on tiny screen handhelds.

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    Wait, it doesn’t appear to be the same within the EU.

    Both the French and German EULA seems to say that if you alter a digital product, the digital product might be rendered unusable. Although my French and German is bad, so someone please double check.

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      Apparently Torzo exists already!

      Also knowing how butthurt Nintendo is rn it probably means Switch 2 is vulnerable to emulation so not that long probably.

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    I don’t seem how threatening to brick a device is intended to help you sell more of them. Like I was seriously considering buying a Switch 2 even recently, but this is really the nail in the coffin. Why should I pay money for something that could stop working on their whims? Because it’s not like these measures have been 100% accurate in the past.

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      Because it’s not like these measures have been 100% accurate in the past.

      This is the part that really frustrates me. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not a fan of the wording here. Account ban? Sure, against TOS, etc. But affecting the device is a whole other story. Especially when prior account bans have come under dubious circumstances.

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      youre not the exploitable target audience.

      like legit 100% evil intent, cant even argue against that

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        The target audience still goes online. Generally Facebook and mumsnet. Wait til it happens to one of them and the stories go round like wildfire.

        With that market, especially at big luxury prices like a console, you exist solely on good faith.

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          you dont see the whole “children of rich western parents really dont care” audience?

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            They won’t give the first shit about piracy policies or anything like that, but they’ll care that MummyD123s DH bought their DD an electric brick that won’t keep them quiet any more.

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    Ah. So now we’re merely ‘licensing’ physical hardware we paid for and have in our homes. right?

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      You always have with Nintendo products. They have always had very aggressive licensing practices. In the early days they were more flexing them on developers, but it does not surprise me that in the wake of everyone telling them that modding and emulators can be explicitly legal that they would turn that particularly litigious aspect of their family friendly brand on the customers.

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    Yeah, definitely gonna stop those pirates who soft/hardmod their systems and never connect to the Internet/run updates in order to dump their games or play pirated copies or whatever they wanna do! That’ll stop them!

    /s

    Edit:

    This seems to be more about their online account services and their updated privacy policy than anything else, but I still think my point stands, just not for this article.

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      The problem is when a new game is released that requires an update to a later firmware version.

      I think I’ve had it before where the updates applied to the system from the game card.

      Unless I misunderstood what was happening. We will have to wait for someone to figure that out.

      I’m rooting for someone to home brew the switch 2 ASAP

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        You’ll probably have a while to wait.

        The Switch 1 was able to run homebrew due to a hardware exploit in the CPU which allowed injection of arbitrary code. The interesting thing about that vulnerability being that since it was a hardware vulnerability, it couldn’t be patched out even after it was discovered.

        Following that incident, I’m sure Nintendo has been working especially hard to ensure there are no similar vulnerabilities existing on the Switch 2.

        That said, console hackers are an amazingly creative and talented bunch, so I wouldn’t be surprised by anything.

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          Hard to say. Consoles have certainly gotten more sercure and people finding vulnerabilities are far less likely to just give them out for free these days

          But there is incentive to hack any console and nintendo has historically attracted the biggest dorks. Additionally they also seem to historically make pretty huge blunders, though the switch exploit was nvidias fault tbf

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          I’m pretty sure all Nintendo consoles have had a problem with being hacked. As far back as the Wii, people were able to run hombrew pretty quickly.

          I think Nintendo just sucks at console security or maybe they are a bigger target due to their exclusives.

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            Ever since I learned about the RGH Xbox 360 mod I’ve just assumed every console will be cracked and emulated no matter what. People are fucking clever.

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          You could have said that about every Nintendo console since the NES, yet here we are.

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        Firmware is dumped almost immediately as well, not a big deal to update a switch offline.