How Nintendo locked down the Switch 2’s USB-C port and broke third-party docking
How Nintendo locked down the Switch 2’s USB-C port and broke third-party docking
Why, Nintendo?
Knock knock, Nintendo.
Suprise!
Its the Consumer Protection and Defense agency of Brazil!
Yeah, Brazil is evidently not cool with the 'we can completely brick your device remotely' schtick.
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. Add that to the fact suing in Brazil is completely different than in the US: everyone is assigned a lawyer for absolutely free during the entire process, and customers win cases against big companies all the time without ever having to spend a single cent.
I guess if the German "verbraucherschutz" hears this they might also pitch in once the German bureaucracy has run a few months for it
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.
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.
The steam deck has been the direct replacement for the Nintendo switch for me.
I swear man there needs to be a big fan push nintendo to have some form of official pc ports
Just wait til it's hacked bro. No way they are keeping this thing secure.
I wonder if the EU can throw the book at them. Technically the port on the switch is not USB-C but a proprietary port with the same physical connector. But EU mandates USB-C especially so people can use chargers and things they already have. So I wonder if Switch 2 violates EU regulations.
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.Can't believe they did it again.
I mean, really?
I guess I should say I'm impressed at their audacity instead of suprised...
Everyone who actually buys a Switch 2 deserves exactly what they get.
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