Nintendo can disable your Switch 2 for piracy in the U.S., but not in Europe, as confirmed by its EULA
Nintendo can disable your Switch 2 for piracy in the U.S., but not in Europe, as confirmed by its EULA
And Nintendo JP says that “Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Switch 2 cannot be remotely located, their users remotely identified nor disabled over the Internet” (tweet in Japanese warning people against accidentally losing or getting their consoles stolen over summer vacation)
But I bet it is more like “Nintendo won’t disable them remotely even if people report ones stolen to them with serial numbers and police reports”, but they’ll happily do so if they caught you using the console in an unapproved manner in their eyes.
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Sorry, done.
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!
Solution: add a pirated gamecard that only activates when it receives a custom signal. If your switch get stolen, just send the signal for the card to activate, which then would cause nintendo to brick it.
Just don't buy one. Problem solved. If you get yours bricked it's your fault for being a sucker and letting companies run all over you. You can survive without having a Switch 2.
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.
Why not doing both? Supporting more independent platforms and advocating for pro-consumer laws
Defiance of unjust laws is the strongest activism, unless you're dealing with a compassionate person who never would have done this in the first place, and excluding nailing your congressghoul to its chair and (thing that sounds really hard to do at scale and like it would violate fire code or something unless the legislative is doing wfh.)
Doing crimes is showing not that they shouldn't work in theory, but that they do not work in practice, and people don't want them to, and every secobd you continue to try degrades your power.
So be a good citizen; lie cheat steal kill win.
I agree that maybe ppl shouldnt have bought it but as the other reply Said finding fault should still mostly be done at the company
So what you're telling us is we can survive without paying $600 to mega evolve our pokemon like we could 10 years ago?
Nintendo apologists are already denying the undeniable
"It's not bricked, because you can still turn it on and browse the settings app, see the available WiFi networks in your area and other fun options like that. You just can't play game key cards or all the games that require a day one patch, but except that, it's definitely not bricked"
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.
having had every Nintendo console since the NES.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_video_game_consoles
Almost every console by nintendo. Game & Watch and Color TV-Game only consolebefore NES.
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.
"But can a brick be used as a shitty book light?"
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.
Can't disable mine because I'm not going to buy one. Gotcha Nintendo!
Freedom of enterprise is a scam and always has been.
For the bourgeoisie, freedom of the press meant freedom for the rich to publish and for the capitalists to control the newspapers, a practice which in all countries, including even the freest, produced a corrupt press.
Lenin was already saying this in the context of the press in 1917 https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/nov/04.htm
I wish his solution worked.
What do you mean? From my point of view it did work.
What if an EU citizen brings a EU-bought Switch 2 to States? This is such a mess and anti-consumer move.
Incomming the "oh the nobodies are talking" and "sorry can't hear you over the moon landing"
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The land of freedom allows big companies to do whatever they want.
Freedom to limit you
Freedom to get fucked over by billion dollar corporate behemoths
There's a reason why the world biggest tech companies (Intel, AMD, Apple, Microsoft, HP, Dell, Nvidia, Amazon) are headquartered in the US.
(Lack of regulations)
and where the billionaires congregate, and alot of right wingers come to the us to grift.