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

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Submitted ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Sunshine@lemmy.ca⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.zip⁩

https://www.gamesradar.com/games/nintendo-of-america-might-turn-your-switch-into-an-expensive-paperweight-if-you-mod-your-console-or-install-any-unauthorized-games-new-policy-warns/

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  • JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Wasn’t that already true?

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  • _____@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Worry not, Japan has terrible developers. Whatever system is in place likely has thousands of attack vectors to prevent it from ever happening.

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    • SplashJackson@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      It’s because they all drink instead of going home at night.

      Ahh, the life of a salaryman

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  • DemBoSain@midwest.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    If you don’t dabble in Switch modding or anything like that, then you have absolutely nothing to worry about…

    I shouldn’t be worried that Nintendo can remotely brick my $500 console. For any reason. Or accidentally.

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    • dhtseany@lemmy.ml ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      This should be highly illegal, regardless of supposed copyright arguments.

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  • hungprocess@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Can’t brick what I’m not gonna buy in the first place.

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    • Lemminary@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Seriously. I don’t even glance at the titles I would’ve bought on a good day otherwise. Fuck all that.

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  • JiveTurkey@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Nintendo can fuck off

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  • Lightor@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    So Nintendo just rapid firing bad PR now or what?

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    • rumba@lemmy.zip ⁨26⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      They’re just taking notes from the US tech companies.

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    • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Bad PR isn’t new for Nintendo

      This is the same company that doesn’t allow bad reviews on YouTube

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  • markovs_gun@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Is this news? I’ve been modding consoles for over a decade and this has always been part of it. Just because Nintendo has historically been really bad at it in the past doesn’t mean this hasn’t always been the name of the game.

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  • Tronn4@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Now ima hack my switch even harder

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  • TachyonTele@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Your switch has always been in danger of being bricked if you mod it. This isn’t new.

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    • DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Sure of self ignorance. Not intentional malfeasance to destroy from the manufacturer

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      • nunya@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        intentional malfeasance Just found a name for my band.

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      • TachyonTele@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Huh?

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  • drunkosaurus@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    OK let’s clarify it Nintendo, whose console it is really? Mine?

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    • chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      No, it’s theirs. You agree to be bricked when you buy it!

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  • realcaseyrollins ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Any benefit to even doing that rather than getting a Steam Deck and modding that?

    • dditty@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      I have both a v1 Switch I’ve home brewed and a Steam Deck OLED. I never really use the switch anymore

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    • samus12345@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Playing the handful of Switch 2 exclusive games.

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    • HubertManne@piefed.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      one reason I got a deck is long term it can work as a mini linux machine even when I upgrade to something better eventually.

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      • realcaseyrollins ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Makes sense, the Steam Deck does give me UMPC vibes

    • skozzii@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The switch does play certain games better, switch 2 games won’t emulate as well until a steamdeck 2 in assuming.

      Imo not worth having the switch unless you like the small size and portability. Switch 2 is just stupid to me, too big and non-oled. It’s not sure whether it wants to be a console or a handheld so it decided to just suck at both.

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      • realcaseyrollins ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        If I were getting into Switches, I'd get a Switch too. It's more powerful, so it'd probably run older games better, and new games will likely be Switch 2 exclusive, at least at some point. If I need portability on-the-go, I'd probably get a Switch Lite, which is available at extremely reasonable prices these days.

  • CrayonDevourer@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

    There’s nothing in here about bricking your console if you mod it.

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    • Lightor@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨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 ⁨7⁩ ⁨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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    • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨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 ⁨8⁩ ⁨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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  • cm0002@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    They’ve long since done this, that’s why the prevailing advice for those who could afford it was “Get one Switch for piracy and one for everything you want to do online”

    I suppose they’re just officially covering their bases in legal talk now

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    • TachyonTele@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yup. Anyone thinking this is even remotely new has never simply glanced at switch modding.

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  • DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    No one has reported anyone actually getting this as an update so likely they stealth updated this for switch 2 release

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