Comment on Nintendo of America might turn your Switch into an expensive paperweight if you mod your console or install any "unauthorized" games, new policy warns

CrayonDevourer@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• Lightor@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It has to do with their online services; not the switch itself.

  Just wrong

  Literally from the terms:

  “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.”

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  • CrayonDevourer@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Context matters here, they are specifically talking about Nintendo Account Services - and they have to include the device, because disabling nintendo account services could render the device “unusable”.

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    • Lightor@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      That seems like exactly what they are saying with “and/or the applicable Nintendo device permanently unusable in whole or in part.” Them saying in part makes sense with the service. I’m whole makes it very clear. How would you wholey disable a device by not having Nintendo account service?

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      • CrayonDevourer@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        If they allow local games and all that’s lost is the online service, then we don’t know this for sure - it’s all speculation. We’re all arguing over a bunch of “what ifs”.

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• possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Isn’t the new switch internet tied? I thought the carriages for the Switch 2 were just digital licenses.

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  • CrayonDevourer@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    There are digital license versions from what I understand, and then there are full-fat versions. Unless something has changed.

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