Nintendo Switch 2 is already in some people's hands, but it's a brick until June 5
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The Switch 2 is a giant paperweight until launch day

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.

  • brsrklf@jlai.luEnglish
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    11 days ago

    It’s pretty bad that it doesn’t work out of the box. I suspect someone will always find a way to hack them into being usable when Nintendo inevitably ends support for them, but it’s still shitty.

    • Phelpssan@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      10 days ago

      It’s pretty bad that it doesn’t work out of the box.

      In particular for a handheld console.

      I’ve bought consoles during business trips where I didn’t have reliable internet (and the goddamn Switch can’t even do sign-in to most hotel networks) and I would be pissed if I could not play it until I got home.

      Let’s hope this is only for the first batch and that later ones will work out of the box.