News After just 12 days, Nintendo is already nuking Switch 2 consoles for players caught using Mig Flash — popular cartridge allows Switch 1 games on th...

[John Nemesh]

So what? Do Sony and Microsoft allow piracy on their consoles? What did you expect? The Switch 2 is obviously selling well and most people are not using it to play pirated software. If you think you need to backup your physical Switch games and use a flash device to play them, and that if they don't want you to do that then they are tyrants, you're a liar and a moron.

Neither MS or Sony will remotely brick your console if it's modified. Try again.

 

[TheyStoppedit]

exactly.
Nintendo LOVES their lawyers, but even they know they'd lose moment they actually tried to brick a users device. Same reason Switch 1 wasn't bricked (they totally had power to do so) & just banned devices online nintendo servers.
EU would eat them alive for attempting it as they have consumer protection laws for a reason. On console front i think they are for one being able to tinker w/ their devices all they want as they paid for it and own it.

Nailed it. This here exactly. The EU is extremely vicious when it comes to consumer rights. The EU will have Nintendo's head on a stick if they try that. That's why I don't think it's even been done on Switch 1, and if it has, very few times. I think that clause in their agreement is there mostly to scare people, but I don't think Nintendo would ever get away with that

 

[kennethrjones.cs]

Another reason for me not to buy it, besides you can't buy it anyway. Never even saw one for sale yet.

 

[Sqwal]

Games can easily eat up 16gb these days. I have seen 16gb + usage on my system, and I only play WoW.

I don't know... I tried out more modern games like COD: Warzone, Control, Ghostrunner (2), etc. but I have never seen them exceeding 16GB+ RAM on my laptop with just 16GB of RAM.

There's your problem. Good thing the steam deck doesnt run windows then. Yes, games CAN use more than 16gb on Linux. Do they? Sure, some do. But 99% of them, no.

Vanilla WoW is a 20 year old game. WoW itself is a bloated game that's been updated for 20 years. Which are you playing on windows? Original WoW had a minimum ram requirement of 256 MB of ram on windows 98-XP . . . Pretty sure a 20 year old game has 20 year old game specs. Youre not playing a 20 year old game.

Just to add that those 16GB are shared with the GPU as well, so depending on the game, it might eat up 4GB or more as VRAM.
It's probably not going to be a massive bottleneck considering the Switch 2 is not that powerful and likely to be bottlenecked by its compute performance first, but it might be in some cases, especially if you play in 4K, and is definitely not a "future proof" amount.

 

[xelistren]

Hey, they can pretend to sell me something and I can pretend to buy something.... we just should not compare notes as to how we do all the pretending nudge nudge wink wink.

Want to know something funny. The games before the whole licensing BS an US court once ruled that people who own the original could legally do what they want with them as long as they retained full control of copies and the original. It is why Nintendo hasn't made a dime emulator hunting.

 

[rambo919]

Want to know something funny. The games before the whole licensing BS an US court once ruled that people who own the original could legally do what they want with them as long as they retained full control of copies and the original. It is why Nintendo hasn't made a dime emulator hunting.

At the end of the day it's all lawfare and corporate maneuvering.... with everyone watching seemingly fooled into thinking it's good-vs-evil or something. Foxes and Wolves arguing about how to divide the sheep that pay for themselves.

 

[Gahl1k]

This news and the comments here are misleading.

I did a little digging. Turns out they have a cute little page stating that this error code means your Nintendo Switch 2 is permanently banned from connecting to the Internet. Yup, that means exactly what you think it means—you cannot do anything that needs an Internet connection including but not limited to: the eShop, using key-cards, playing online, downloading your digital games, downloading game updates, or deleting your account.

Even if they're in the right, I can't feel any sympathy for this company for the way they treat their fans.

 

[Pierce2623]

Wait so you’re saying t

Man, if only Nintendo warned everyone before the console launched what they would do if they tried to hack their console.

Wait…So, you’re saying storing multiple games an a single piece of physical media is “hacking” now?

 

[Pierce2623]

At the end of the day it's all lawfare and corporate maneuvering.... with everyone watching seemingly fooled into thinking it's good-vs-evil or something. Foxes and Wolves arguing about how to divide the sheep that pay for themselves.

The only people who think it’s good vs evil are pure Nintendo sheep or pure Nintendo haters. I don’t pirate currently sold games but I’ll HAPPILY pirate anything I can’t buy retail.

 

[rambo919]

The only people who think it’s good vs evil are pure Nintendo sheep or pure Nintendo haters. I don’t pirate currently sold games but I’ll HAPPILY pirate anything I can’t buy retail.

You don't need to hate something to recognize it for what it is. Nintendo is not evil.... it's just indifferent. In their indifference they set up a relationship of contempt for their customers.... having any kind of loyalty towards such an entity is stupid.

The nature of all markets currently both physically and digitally is the same.... the customer is assumed and abused. The irony is how the customer is accused of theft when the provider is exempted from extortion for lack of a better term.

It's a jungle out there and everyone pretends it's still 1950.