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I like how this article does not talk about the anti consumer practices engaged in by Nintendo, that might push some customers away from their consoles. /s Nintendo can disable your Switch 2 for piracy in the U.S., but not in Europe, as confirmed by its EULA. There is already a switch in my household, but the price along with the ability to remotely brick the device, is what made our household pass on the switch 2. We bought a second steam deck instead.

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[–] noxypaws@pawb.social 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

How is either Switch not enshittified when you have to pay a monthly subscription to backup your saves?

[–] RamRabbit@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

you have to pay a monthly subscription to backup your saves

Jesus fuck. I hadn't realized how bad things had gotten in Nintendo-land.

How long has Steam been backing up saves for? I can't even remember.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

they got the idea from pokemon games, how you need an app just store all the pokemon, plus another app for certain other features for the main pokemon game. before the switch/3ds transition, i believe you had to pay for "storing your excess pokemon" on a app.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

Even in the days of memory cards you could back up saves to other memory cards...

[–] eronth@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Did they ever support that for free?