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HeyThisIsntTheYMCA, 2 miesiące temu do games w Nintendo reserves the right to brick your console following "unauthorised use", in bid to prevent piracy

i mean if i had a specific nintendo console for pirated games, i wouldn’t connect it to the internet

ArchmageAzor, 2 miesiące temu do games w Nintendo reserves the right to brick your console following "unauthorised use", in bid to prevent piracy

At this point I’m surprised Nintendo still allows people to play their games at their own homes, and not exclusively in official Nintendo-branded Play Rooms that only exist in like 6 places outside Tokyo and costs $20/hr to rent.

thessnake03, 2 miesiące temu

Don’t give them any ideas

VirgilMastercard, 2 miesiące temu do games w Nintendo reserves the right to brick your console following "unauthorised use", in bid to prevent piracy

I’m gonna pirate some Nintendo games just out of spite, really.

Nima, 2 miesiące temu do games w Nintendo reserves the right to brick your console following "unauthorised use", in bid to prevent piracy

i can’t wait to pirate their new switch 2 games 🥰 its gonna be awesome.

bread, 2 miesiące temu do games w Nintendo reserves the right to brick your console following "unauthorised use", in bid to prevent piracy

I’ve been pretty consistently buying Nintendo consoles, but I’m not buying this one. Not just because of this, but I challenge these assholes to brick the device I end up playing their games on.

mriswith, 2 miesiące temu do games w Nintendo reserves the right to brick your console following "unauthorised use", in bid to prevent piracy

Wait, it doesn’t appear to be the same within the EU.

Both the French and German EULA seems to say that if you alter a digital product, the digital product might be rendered unusable. Although my French and German is bad, so someone please double check.

mrfriki, 2 miesiące temu do games w Nintendo reserves the right to brick your console following "unauthorised use", in bid to prevent piracy

Can’t wait for Yuzu 2 to come out.

drmoose, 2 miesiące temu

Apparently Torzo exists already!

Also knowing how butthurt Nintendo is rn it probably means Switch 2 is vulnerable to emulation so not that long probably.

arakhis_, 2 miesiące temu do games w Nintendo reserves the right to brick your console following "unauthorised use", in bid to prevent piracy

or alternatively communicated: “You will own nothing and you will be happy”

njm1314, 2 miesiące temu do games w Nintendo reserves the right to brick your console following "unauthorised use", in bid to prevent piracy

They’re going to start breaking them as soon as the switch 3 is released I guarantee it.

Also this seems like I don’t know not theft Maybe, but some crime.

Varyk, 2 miesiące temu do games w Nintendo reserves the right to brick your console following "unauthorised use", in bid to prevent piracy

I know it should have been earlier, but that really is the last straw for buying Nintendo products for me.

what a shame.

Kolanaki, 2 miesiące temu do games w Nintendo reserves the right to brick your console following "unauthorised use", in bid to prevent piracy

Can the Switch itself even be hacked to run pirated stuff? I honestly never looked since emulation of it came fairly quick. Bricking the Switch won’t stop anyone emulating on a PC lol

Davel23, 2 miesiące temu

The very first model of the Switch can be soft-modded. Later revisions require a modchip.

AceFuzzLord, 2 miesiące temu do games w Nintendo reserves the right to brick your console following "unauthorised use", in bid to prevent piracy

Yeah, definitely gonna stop those pirates who soft/hardmod their systems and never connect to the Internet/run updates in order to dump their games or play pirated copies or whatever they wanna do! That’ll stop them!

/s

Edit:

This seems to be more about their online account services and their updated privacy policy than anything else, but I still think my point stands, just not for this article.

neon_nova, 2 miesiące temu

The problem is when a new game is released that requires an update to a later firmware version.

I think I’ve had it before where the updates applied to the system from the game card.

Unless I misunderstood what was happening. We will have to wait for someone to figure that out.

I’m rooting for someone to home brew the switch 2 ASAP

tiramichu, 2 miesiące temu (edited 2 miesiące temu)

You’ll probably have a while to wait.

The Switch 1 was able to run homebrew due to a hardware exploit in the CPU which allowed injection of arbitrary code. The interesting thing about that vulnerability being that since it was a hardware vulnerability, it couldn’t be patched out even after it was discovered.

Following that incident, I’m sure Nintendo has been working especially hard to ensure there are no similar vulnerabilities existing on the Switch 2.

That said, console hackers are an amazingly creative and talented bunch, so I wouldn’t be surprised by anything.

neon_nova, 2 miesiące temu

I’m pretty sure all Nintendo consoles have had a problem with being hacked. As far back as the Wii, people were able to run hombrew pretty quickly.

I think Nintendo just sucks at console security or maybe they are a bigger target due to their exclusives.

ragebutt, 2 miesiące temu

Hard to say. Consoles have certainly gotten more sercure and people finding vulnerabilities are far less likely to just give them out for free these days

But there is incentive to hack any console and nintendo has historically attracted the biggest dorks. Additionally they also seem to historically make pretty huge blunders, though the switch exploit was nvidias fault tbf

catloaf, 2 miesiące temu

You could have said that about every Nintendo console since the NES, yet here we are.

TORFdot0, 2 miesiące temu

Firmware is dumped almost immediately as well, not a big deal to update a switch offline.

jordanlund, 2 miesiące temu do games w Nintendo reserves the right to brick your console following "unauthorised use", in bid to prevent piracy

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Zahille7, 2 miesiące temu do games w Nintendo reserves the right to brick your console following "unauthorised use", in bid to prevent piracy

Well that’s some fucking bullshit.

RaoulDook, 2 miesiące temu do games w Death Stranding 2 preview: how a big dollop of Metal Gear is expanding Kojima's bizarre epic

Norman Reedus and the Funky Feetus 2: Death Gear Boogaloo

More Metal Gear-like sounds awesome. Article mentions equipment customization, more weapons, camo options for stealth etc.

SkunkWorkz, 2 miesiące temu

Well I was hoping it meant indoor sneaking levels like MGS2 and not MGSV gameplay.

Nasan, 2 miesiące temu

Maybe something like sneaking through the bowels of an Arsenal Gear-like BT?

gradual, 2 miesiące temu

Yes, video games in general have stopped caring about interiors because they require “too much thought” on the part of the lazy/incompetent developers.