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.

  • bpev@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    10 days ago

    Idk which “all consoles” you’re talking about, but fwiw I worked as a dev at Sony during the PS5 launch, and for the disk version, it was a heavy priority that the barebones “put in a disk and play a game” use-case should work from day 1 offline forever.

    • slimerancher@lemmy.worldMEnglish
      31·
      10 days ago

      I should’ve been clear, that was about point c, the clause to brick the console. It has been present since PS3 / PS4 era and is still present for PS5, same with Xbox.

      As for the ability to use console without connecting to internet, I don’t support that move by Nintendo, so didn’t give any examples for that, but Xbox One had that, so at least half of other consoles have this precedence, but it was a stupid move by Xbox then, and it’s a stupid move by Nintendo now.