Easy solution: Don’t buy one. Play games on a PC. Nintendo isn’t your friend.
Nintendo Anti-Piracy Policy Device Lock Update Warns of Console Bricks for Unauthorized Use
Submitted 11 months ago by heimy@lemm.ee to games@lemmy.world
https://www.gamescensor.com/nintendo-anti-piracy-policy-device-lock/
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Guidy@lemmy.world 11 months ago
rauls4@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Fine. Then we will need to run their titles in other hardware with emulation.
Pika@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
For real though, like I don’t see their monetary gain here. The only thing they’re encouraging is people to just not bother buying the switch in the first place in favor of other projects. I believe if they manage to go through with this and actually enforce these new terms, that were just going to see A Renewed effort of a completely independent emulator that can run their games. One that would allow third party modification and firmware
capt_wolf@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Just another reason to stop buying consoles. Imagine building or buying a pc for your OS to just be like, “No, we think you’re pirating something. We’re going to lock your system and make it entirely unusable. Enjoy your ~$1000 paperweight!”
OctaviaMeowzly@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
Or buy a steam deck
DomeGuy@lemmy.world 11 months ago
If you think either Apple or Microsoft wouldn’t do that,.you’ve likely too young to know about “hackingtosh” computers or too nerdy to have read the windows 11 coverage.
That neither company would do it without a profit motive is a good argument to ban both from running “app stores”.
skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Hackintoshes have been around since the 80s and this has never happened.
In 2009-2012 Apple did levy a successful lawsuit against Psystar for doing this in a business environment. But they’ve never enforced bricking a consumer Hackintosh and I expect they never will.
quetzaldilla@lemmy.world 11 months ago
You guys still use Windows and Macs, lol?
nul9o9@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
That’s why linux is the only choice for me now.
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 11 months ago
No, we think you’re pirating something. We’re going to lock your system and make it entirely unusable.
Microsoft would 100% do this with Windows if they had the technical competence, heh.
Apple’s just closing off practical workarounds.
arakhis_@feddit.org 11 months ago
how is this different to yesterday’s post? thanks for sharing either way
donuts@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It’s not. OP only shares links from this specific website, leading me to believe they are just here to push their own site without checking whether it was actually already posted
simple@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Or the one from a few days ago
I don’t know how many times people are going to post this.
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Nintendo be Nintendo.
plumbercraic@lemmy.sdf.org 11 months ago
Yeah that’s illegal. It’s the customers hardware once they buy it. Still gonna hack it like every Nintendo console before.
Angry_Autist@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Why are people upvoting your obviously incorrect statement? Do we literally just not care about truth anymore?
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Newsflash: Europe exists
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
Depends how it is done
Full console brick? You have an argument.
Disable of all online functionality? Perfectly valid and no different than banning someone from a store.
And the latter effectively provides the former if you can’t download any updates, connect to any online servers, or even download your game from a “game key card” or whatever the hell they are calling those.
ms_lane@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The latter is also how Microsoft and Sony handle it.
You go online with a modded console? Console ID gets banned and you can’t ever access online services of any kind with that console.
plumbercraic@lemmy.sdf.org 11 months ago
The switch already results in online ban if you play an online game with a hacked console, which they need to do to protect against cheaters.