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Well rip Nintendo Switch 2 after *this - Switch 2 is bricked untill a day 1 patch is downloaded. (www.theshortcut.com)
submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by rob299@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/nintendo@lemmy.world
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This is bad. Because,

a. Switch 2 can get bricked when Nintendo wants you to upgrade to the "Switch Tree."

b. If you discover a purely unused switch 2 decades later it will be useless. It's bricked unless you get that Switch 2 update.

c. It all ties to that Nintendo bricking terms of service terms.

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[–] emb@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

That sucks, but I wonder if future games will have the needed firmware update on cart?

A lot of Switch 1 games require your system to have newer firmware, but then it'll ship the update on cart so you never have to go online. PS4 and 5 do that too. Up to now, only Xbox One (and I assume Series does it too) has required me to do periodic system updates online.

[–] brsrklf@jlai.lu 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I've wondered about that. Even Wii had embedded updates on discs if I remember correctly so it's definitely not new.

However even if they go that way, would all cartridges have at least the basic update needed for the console to work? Not sure about that.

[–] emb@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Good question. I always assumed the updates were cumulative (as in, a later version would contain anything needed from older versions) and that pretty much every cartridge required some firmware that was newish at time of release... such that yeah, each cart would have a version of firmware update on there.

But there are a lot of assumptions on my part there. And the Switch 2 situation could be a totally different kind of thing for all we know.