Nintendo

For real. I've owned EVERY Nintendo console from NES to Switch. Home consoles and mobile ones.

First time I didn't pick up a Nintendo console. They have buckets of money. There's no need to turn to the dark side...

USB fourm should sue them for using the USB name and not bring compliant

I'm taking advantage of the steam summer sale to basically re-buy most of my Switch games for PC at cheap prices just for that.

i'll just emulate switch 1 on my deck then... together with any other nintendo old consoles.

It's a SB-C port then

I got a Steam Deck shortly after the Switch 2 price reveal and love it. I wish I'd gotten one years ago, but better late than never.

I don’t think I’ve ever actively been put off of wanting a new console before this.

Weren't around for this one? It put me off Xbox forever, which turned out to be the right decision.

I'm personally banking on them getting Sony OtherOS'd, they've done a fair amount of pissing highly skilled people off

Wasn't there something with the original switch where third-party usb-c didn't work with it off the bat either? I thought it ended up being something about Nintendo actually following the spec more rigidly than others did.

because it's supposed to be usb. Which it's not, intentionally

Even Apple isn’t this bad. You can use non-Apple devices on their USB-C ports just fine. Hell, Apple actually had a large part in developing the USB-C standard. The entire point is that the U stands for Universal.

Nintendo has always been the apple of the gaming industry. Where have you been?

Because they are a scummy company, they want full control.

This is not surprising at all.

The Switch 2 dock has built in fans.

The protocol enforces you to use the correct gear, preventing damage to the console and user.

I'm not knowledgeable enough on the standards to know if this can be enforced otherwise, but it sounds like a typical "Nintendo Quality" feature.

From what I gather, they use standard protocols for the webcam, so it seems more of a protective measure to me than the evil shit people are making up here. Otherwise, I'd expect them to lock down everything.

IMO, everything has to do with piracy.

Ever since the r4 for the DS spring boarded Nintendo piracy, every single console they've released since then has been ripped open and has had very easy-to-use tools developed for it to make it really, really, easy to put pirated games on. You can buy a flashcard from amazon with DS games on it. You can mod a 3ds in 15 minutes. You can play switch games on the steam deck.

They hate this. They want to do everything they can to lock down their systems and prevent this.

On the Wii (or maybe it was 3ds or Wii U) when updating, you used to get a notification "...this update will also check for unauthorized material and remove it." Now they're simply saying it there's unauthorized stuff they're not going to account for it and let things break (or force it to break)

Now they're locking down the usb-c port, again making it harder to crack the console. They failed with every console this far, so now they're trying something different.

In the long run it may get cracked eventually. But for now, like denuvo, it delays piracy.

The switch 2 dock is $120. Thats why 3rd party docks. Regardless if the reason a person wants to buy one, it should not be $120. Its a PCB with like 2 chips, a fan, 2 usb ports and an Ethernet port. You can buy a 16gb Pi 5 for that price.

Accidents happen and if someone has to replace their dock, forcing them to overpay for a Nintendo branded one while preventing other manufacturers from producing cheaper versions or versions with more features is anti consumer and monopolistic.

I got a second party dock for the switch one back in pandemic times because my son wanted to hang out with me while I worked. The dock I got didn't block the front so he could play it while it charged.

Switch 1 dock comes with the console. But what if you want to hook up 1 dock on each of your TVs throughout your house? Lets say there are 3 TVs. Well, you have 1 dock. Now you need 2 more.

The official dock with power supply is $90. So you now need $180 plus two more HDMI cables.

3rd party docks are a fraction of that. You could probably get both docks for $60? Been a while since I checked prices.

And used prices aren't much better for first party. But used on 3rd party goes down even more. You could probably get both tvs with used 3rd party docks for $40? As opposed to $180 for 2 new official docks.