The only thing "convoluted" about this whole announcement was pricing.
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jailbreaks and emulators
I'm afraid of the possibility the Switch 2 will be their Xbox 360 -> Xbox One moment in terms of security...
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youd be suprised. all of Sonys consoles are hackable, despite efforts to stopping it. willing to guess that another SD express exploit will be found, as one was already found late last year, and the switch 2 is one of the devices that uses it.
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Pure speculation here, but I'm pretty sure the reason Nintendo significantly ramped up their legal hiring in the past few years is because they figured it was cheaper to chill the development of custom firmware and emulation than it was to tighten up their hardware.
I'm sure they still made an effort, but I'd be very surprised if the security isn't broken fairly quickly.
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Hell my kids play N64 on my modded Wii. They were playing Mario kart just a few hours ago lmao
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They've had dumb vulnerabilities in every single console. Given this one is a refresh, it probably won't have some huge unpatchable vuln, but there's always something.
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The first model run of Switches had a CPU hardware flaw that wad Nvidia's fault.
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Nintendo won’t make this mistake again
17th time's the charm
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They made a change that the cartridges no longer hold the game data but will require a download of the game and the cartridge is just a key for the digital game.
That will stop game dumping from the cartridge. But with a jailbroken console, we can still get the game that way.
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That’s not true. The physical games do contain the game. Game-key cards do not. There is a difference
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Wait so there will be two different types of cartridges? Some that do hold game data and others that don’t and are just the digital key?
I was under the impression this would be all cartridges for the Switch 2.
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Yes. In the direct they specifically said that physical game cartridges will be the same shape and size as switch 1 cartridges, but will be red and are much faster. Then in their customer support documentation on their website it says that game key cards are different from regular game cards and will be clearly labeled as “game-key card” on the packaging. However, this doesn’t mean that they will always produce working physical games. This game-key card thing may just be a way to slowly transition into an all digital market without causing a sudden uproar
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no, using sony as an example. all sony consoles are hackable despite effort to stop it. nintendo is the same situation
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I think one will probably be found, but it won't be hardware level like the Switch 1, so it will get patched.
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Maybe I’m just getting old, but I was very bored and underwhelmed during the entire presentation even before the terrible pricing reveal. I like the mouse joycons and the Donkey Kong game. That’s about it.
