Comment on How Nintendo locked down the Switch 2’s USB-C port and broke third-party docking

grue@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• CosmoNova@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  How would it be? Unfortunately there are still a lot of consumer hostile practices going on that are completely legal in the EU. I‘m no expert of course so I‘m curious what EU law would regulate this exact practice.

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  • Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    They went after Apple for their proprietary chargers and directed them to switch to the USB standard.

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    • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      But they’re using USB

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    • CosmoNova@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      That‘s different than a dock which you could argue is part of the console.

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    • acosmichippo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      does charging not work on switch 2, or just A/V?

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  • slimerancher@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    EU made iPhone have proper USB C port, instead of proprietary stuff

    It can probably do something about this too. I think USB C rule was only for phones so may not directly apply to Switch, but they can make Nintendo fix it.

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