If I’d play capitalism-bullshit Bingo with any company in the world, it would be extremely boring, because I’d win instantly, all the time.
Between their stealing YouTube money from people giving them free advertising and never reducing the price of decades old games, if they make them available at all, and their shitty online experience, I’m amazed Nintendo has any market goodwill left, but reality never ceases to amaze me. Nostalgia is a powerful beast.
I understand they make some of the most fun games ever, but their legal department cancels that out by an order of magnitude.
Pretty much the only major player that still focused on local multiplayer which is very valuable to me…
The USB consortium should sue Nintendo to force them to take the USB connector off the switch 2 then.
It ain’t universal if you block it. From working with anything but your devices, and yet you advertise it that way.
If I remember from my USB product design days, as long as they don’t include any of the official markings on the product or packaging, they’re in the clear.
I know it doesn’t matter, but after all I’ve read about Nintendo and the Switch 2 in the last year?
Fuck 'em. I’m going to get a Steam Deck or a Lenovo handheld, and I’ll just enjoy the Nintendo products I already have. I’m not spending a small fortune on a console that they can brick remotely, or force me to buy a $50 proprietary charger for, or a “virtual game cartridge”.
Fuck all of that bullshit.
I’ve never been so unhyped for a new games console in my life.
my hype for Ryujinx 2 intensifies tho
I was so fucking hyped for this thing. I’ve been waiting nearly a decade for MP4. But then its just the usual enshittification…So sad
The switch 2 has already become the best selling console of all time. Capitalism always wins no matter how anti consumer a company behaves.
It’s not the best selling console of all time. It had one of the best launches, but the PS2, DS and OG switch sold 160, 154 and 152 million. Switch 2 only has 5 million so far.
I’m honestly sorry for any fan of nintendo, this is getting worse day by day.
Saw a guy get a Switch 2 bricked and at the end of the video he was talking about getting another one 🤦
Can’t read the article because of the paywall. But, why does my viture mobile pro dock work if switch 2 docking is broken for 3rd party solutions?
most of the things i’ve read about this thing has been just more and more typical corpo user-hostile practices. if i ever had more than a passing interest in buying one, it would have been gone by now
PCMR FTW
Just by literally any of the other handheld PCS and just stick an emulator on it if you’re that interested in playing the games. The only reason to buy a Switch 2 is for convenience.
It’s complicated, and increasingly so as Nintendo succeeds in intimidating more and more projects into shutting down.
That’s rich, from a company that stops making or never makes enough its first-party accessories. Ask anyone interested in getting an Ethernet adapter for Switch, or a first-party Gamecube adapter more than like 8 months after those products launched. Get on Amazon and try to buy an official Switch dock from Nintendo; there is no official outlet for them there, so you’re either buying pre-owned, or a lookalike knockoff, or an explicit knockoff, or something that MIGHT be real but it’s from a weird seller, at a suspiciously low price, with some random text in the item name. Christ, get on Gamestop’s website! They only have refurbs and pre-owned ones. It’s been like this for as long as I can remember. Nintendo cannot be trusted to make their own shit and trying to stop third parties from doing what they won’t is peak anti-consumer behavior. A classic Nintendo Move™.
ask anyone interesting in getting an Ethernet adaptor for switch
Then they had the balls to brag about having a real Ethernet port on the OLED’s dock as if it was some massive innovation and not something standard for the prior ~20 years.
Serious question, were any of you using third-party docks on Switch 1? Is this really something that’s a big deal to you guys?
I have an USB hub with a Type C to HDMI output. I switch with my laptop, Steam Deck, and Switch 1.
Additionally, when I’m traveling, I prefer to take the small USB hub over the chunky switch dock.
My biggest gripe is how petty it is to disallow it. That’s like HP levels of petty… Actually, they’re really starting to adopt a lot of shitty HP policies.
It also breaks other stuff like being able to output video to portable video glasses. A relatively niche use now, but something that will pick up considerably over the life of the console.
Having a floating 4k screen that you can put anywhere at any size is pretty nice. Don’t have to look down at your hands or hold the system up to a comfortable eye line.
I do hope that at some point they open it up a bit more. And maybe only exclude stuff that would damage the system, which is ostensibly the -given- reason for locking it down. While of course, the real reason is likely a licensing opportunity.
I do still buy their stuff. But it has been more and more often lately that I buy it and then feel ok about emulating it to add in stuff like 4k 120 fps or VR/stereoscopic or whatever.
Yes. I have two of them.
Yes. I have a small usb-c docking station for the switch, that I use for hooking it up to the TV of hotels or holiday homes.
This, I believe, is the biggest use case that I have come across.
Imagine posting an article on Lemmy that requires a subscription. Unbelievable.
Imagine not paying for work of journalists
Instead you get technological fox news
THIS is technological fox news though.
90% of the article is wrong - it’s just dogpiling for clicks on ‘controversial topic’ It’s the Faux News playbook to a tee.
The country where I live has this article available for free (other articles from the site do require a subscription, albeit they are labelled as such).
I normally post archive.is copies for subscription articles, I thought this was in open access.
