Nintendo apologists are already denying the undeniable
“It’s not bricked, because you can still turn it on and browse the settings app, see the available WiFi networks in your area and other fun options like that. You just can’t play game key cards or all the games that require a day one patch, but except that, it’s definitely not bricked”
This whole practice, among other things, is so shitty that I decided to not get a Switch 2, having had every Nintendo console since the NES.
But it’s important to make the distinction between disabling and bricking. It may seem like a technicality, but that’s the kind of thing that’ll get a lawsuit dismissed. Not that I have any faith in that process anyway.
Yeah “bricked” means it’s as useful as a brick. If this is accurate, you can still use all the offline features, which is less bad than it’s previously been described.
“But can a brick be used as a shitty book light?”
They are denying you access to the service rather than your hardware. I prefer how Nintendo goes about it (locking hacked device) compared to Valve or Sony where your entire game library gets locked. As someone with a banned Switch I think that’s fair, I can pirate things on it anyway.
Valve locks game libraries?
Say you get VAC banned, your entire library can’t play VAC multiplayer games. If you hacked in Splatoon you buy a new Switch but your library is retained.
You can still play any multiplayer game, you just can’t play on VAC-enabled servers anymore. The best way to prevent being VAC banned is don’t cheat on multiplayer games. If you do, you deserve having your account VAC banned.
Can’t disable mine because I’m not going to buy one. Gotcha Nintendo!
Just don’t buy one. Problem solved. If you get yours bricked it’s your fault for being a sucker and letting companies run all over you. You can survive without having a Switch 2.
And Nintendo JP says that “Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Switch 2 cannot be remotely located, their users remotely identified nor disabled over the Internet” (tweet in Japanese warning people against accidentally losing or getting their consoles stolen over summer vacation)
But I bet it is more like “Nintendo won’t disable them remotely even if people report ones stolen to them with serial numbers and police reports”, but they’ll happily do so if they caught you using the console in an unapproved manner in their eyes.
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Freedom of enterprise is a scam and always has been.
For the bourgeoisie, freedom of the press meant freedom for the rich to publish and for the capitalists to control the newspapers, a practice which in all countries, including even the freest, produced a corrupt press.
Lenin was already saying this in the context of the press in 1917 https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/nov/04.htm
I wish his solution worked.
What do you mean? From my point of view it did work.
What if an EU citizen brings a EU-bought Switch 2 to States? This is such a mess and anti-consumer move.
US (lack of) law applies
No. That EU-citizen is fully protected by EU consumer laws. Has nothing to do with where that citizen make use of their product.
