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Quazatron, 4 dni temu do games w Nintendo’s Anti-Consumer Anti-Piracy Measures Also Reduce The Value Of The Switch 2

Any platform that restricts how and what I can run in it has inherently less value to me. This is why I mostrly avoided consoles all my life.

The only console I bought was the original Wii. The games were extremely expensive, and they disabled all the services that made the console useful after a few years (weather channel, news channel, store).

Fortunately I added a few SNES, PCEngine, Genesis/Megadrive and Gamecube emulators otherwise I would now have a very pretty white doorstop.

Empricorn, 3 dni temu

I’m pretty sure you can mod any Wii now, bypassing all these restrictions and adding back replacements for the missing channels.

Quazatron, 3 dni temu

There was the Homebrew Channel back then, but it seemed to have gone offline. I assumed people just lost interest and moved on.

Based on what you said I did a quick search and found that there’s still an active community around the console, so thank you!

I’m updating my Homebrew Browser to see what’s new.

sugar_in_your_tea, 3 dni temu

My history with consoles is:

1. Whatever by brother bought
2. OG Xbox to play Halo
3. Xbox 360 for Kinect games
4. Switch - play w/ kids; Smash has been amazing for this
5. Steam Deck - not a console, but I use it as one; got it to play games in bed

I play most games on PC because I’m just not as interested in exclusives anymore, except maybe Zelda games, and with BOTW and TOTK, I’m less interested in those (they lost the formula I like).

I’ll probably get the Switch 2 eventually, but I’ll wait until there’s a game I really want (say, ALttP remake or something), my kids break our OLED Switch, or there’s an OLED Switch 2 with better battery life.

missingno, 3 dni temu do games w Nintendo’s Anti-Consumer Anti-Piracy Measures Also Reduce The Value Of The Switch 2

Y'all know that Sony and Microsoft do this too, right? I just feel like there's a bit of a double standard here.

Geodad, 3 dni temu do gaming w Nintendo’s Anti-Consumer Anti-Piracy Measures Also Reduce The Value Of The Switch 2

I’ll wait for the prices to come down.