• ieatpwns@lemmy.world
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    21 hours ago

    Holy crap that was a fast reply lol. The part where they were like “at least it’s not as bad as m$ and Sony” like bruh THEY SHOULDNT BE DOING THIS AT ALL

    • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.world
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      21 hours ago

      I was going to post this in the root of the comments but then I saw yours, so I copy-pasted it and attached it in the hopes that we can get a Fuck Nintendo train going.

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      21 hours ago

      This is significantly worse than anything I’ve experienced from Microsoft. I’ve never heard stories of consoles just getting bricked. I’m sure they exist, but it didn’t make the news from frequency. Consoles shouldn’t be bricked.

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        20 hours ago

        Just to clarify, the console wasn’t bricked, only banned from online use. Which also means banned from accessing eshop or downloading any updates. But physical games that doesn’t require online would work fine.

        Not that this is fine, shouldn’t be banned for this either, but just clarifying the bricking part.

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            5 hours ago

            For future games yeah, but there’s a huge Switch 1 library that a banned system can play but bricked system can’t.

            Also funnily enough, I believe they can safely play the “backed-up” games offline, that originally got the Switch banned. 😀

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          19 hours ago

          Ah, I see. I’ve been hearing stories of them getting bricked as well. Unrelated, but controller drift problems were reported on day 2. I would like to recommend abstaining from the purchase of any Nintendo products for the forseeable future. Seems like they hate their customers and aren’t really willing to change, no matter what. Zelda and Mario are pretty cool, but I think that at this point, Nintendo is just running on nostalgia and brand recognition.

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            18 hours ago

            Do you have any sources for those bricked consoles you’ve heard of?
            I’ve heard of a recent update to their ToS, where people have mentioned the possibility of Nintendo bricking consoles, but haven’t actually seen any examples.

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              17 hours ago

              Excellent question. Apparently, after having looked into everything, they haven’t been bricking, just banning. As someone else said, it basically does the same thing for most people, as you can’t get updates or access the store. Another person said that the keycards don’t work either. Honestly, I don’t really care if half of the unproven stuff is untrue. The $80 games were the first thing to piss me off.