Third-party docks are locked out
    • Landless2029@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      2 months ago

      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…

  • yeehaw@lemmy.caEnglish
    702·
    2 months ago

    And this and other reasons are why I haven’t bought one yet. Think I’ll just keep using the steam deck and switch 1 instead.

    • cyborganism@piefed.caEnglish
      39·
      2 months ago

      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.

    • ekZepp@lemmy.worldEnglish
      14·
      2 months ago

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

  • mienshao@lemmy.worldEnglish
    333·
    2 months ago

    Nintendo….please stop. I love your games, I love your products… this type of shit is so unnecessary and exhausting…

  • Broadfern@lemmy.worldEnglish
    231·
    2 months ago

    I don’t think I’ve ever actively been put off of wanting a new console before this. Lukewarm feelings or too poor, sure.

    I love my original Switch and (most of) its first-party titles but each new article about its successor is making me want a Steam Deck instead.

    • samus12345@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      141·
      2 months ago

      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.

      • Broadfern@lemmy.worldEnglish
        42·
        2 months ago

        I was in elementary school when the 360 came out, so no, I wasn’t aware at the time of the corporate smarm coming from Microsoft.

        You’re right to be put off of it though, MS is…yeah.

        • TroublesomeTalker@feddit.ukEnglish
          8·
          2 months ago

          This was the Xbox One release. In the initial announcement it was all online, all the time with fully Digital licening. As you can imagine, uproar followed. This was their reasoning for everyone who couldn’t download a few TB of games and updates on the regular. They relented on almost all of their points, but the damage was done.

        • BigPotato@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          2 months ago

          Hey, dude, just be older like me. How are you going to remember screwing your Atari into the antenna ports on the back of the TV if you weren’t alive for that?

    • cm0002@lemmy.cafeOPEnglish
      16·
      2 months ago

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

    • sanpo@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      31·
      2 months ago

      No, Switch 1 was non-compliant as well.

      Making USB-C chargers and docks is cheap and easy, there’s thousands on the market.
      But Nintendo had to be assholes and did things their way, as usual.

    • justOnePersistentKbinPlease@fedia.io
      18·
      2 months ago

      The switch 1 hardware was 99% compliant.

      Then they patched the switch and intentionally made the switch incompatible with 3rd party chargers and docks.

      And I recall this because it bricked my GFs switch literally the first use post patch after using that dock for nearly a year.

    • thatradomguy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      22·
      2 months ago

      Fair. IIRC they did something with their HDMI cable before where you couldn’t use it on all TVs or something? I forget now

  • VegasVator@lemmy.worldEnglish
    93·
    2 months ago

    “restricted” and “most”. So how do some work then? The system is pretty dang new. Lots of developers couldn’t even get dev kits yet. I’ll wait and see before I get all upset that there aren’t 3rd party docks that I don’t have a need for or would buy anyways.

    • turmacar@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      2 months ago

      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.

  • heythatsprettygood@feddit.ukEnglish
    41·
    2 months ago

    I do wonder why they decide to do this. Replacement Nintendo docks probably aren’t a big money maker. Maybe they did HDCP (HDMI copy protection for movies and such, used for YouTube and such when they finally get it working) on dock side for Switch 2 so this is their attempt to stop people getting the video feed in between? Just speculation though, and I might be very wrong.

    • warm@kbin.earth
      16·
      2 months ago

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

      This is not surprising at all.