Say goodbye to expensive battery replacement?
Say hello to expensive batteries with a TPM-like chip!
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Why?
Because Nintendo are always trying to out-do themselves when it comes to anti-consumer practices.
It’s the polite thing to do
That’d be sick as fuck. Shame it sounds like it’d just be in the eu
It might be cheaper to make it a standard across the board than producing 2 separate models. Unless that makes the device that much more expensive.
New batteries available at just 90% of the price of a new console. Oh, sorry. You have the version 1.3 console, we only still make batteries for the 1.4 console and above.
Well that’s a bit pessimistic. The optimistic take is that third party companies produce cheaper batteries.
That is optimistic.
There doesn’t seem to be anything in the EU regulations about DRM on batteries, so there’s almost certainly going to be a chip on there with a code embedded in it.
The realistic take is that nintendo will send out an update that bricks all devices with 3rd party batteries.
I think this is great, even if Nintendo invents some proprietary way to charge the fuck out of it. Step in the right direction.
Howeverrrr… for something like the Switch(2) I see access to games a more long term issue. Switch 1 had physical cards to put in, but even then you got updates of course online. Switch 2 seems to try and get users to download complete games.
Are these servers still running in 10 years or longer. Otherwise renewing the battery on your old Switch 2 may not even be useful if there is no way to play the games anymore.
Not invalidating anything you just said, but the switch 2 heavily encourages you to use a Micro SD Express Card to store your downloaded games.
I wonder if I can use DD to make backups…
I think you can just copy the files. It isn’t a proprietary filesystem like the Xbox, it’s just exFAT. If you have a spare card, try copying the files over and see if it still works.
Big if true
Didn’t know! Thanks!
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Oh yes! Time to release a “better” version of the Switch 2 after 3.75 million of them have been sold in Europe. This should have been a day one feature.
