01 July 2025-

(sorry for any typos or parts that aren't very understandable. I typed my heart away and did not reread it. As it should be.)

The Switch 2 came out recently and the way that Nintendo's greed is so blatant is genuinely offputting and disgusting. First off the fact that the games in general are on average $80+ dollars. Like hellooooo. In what world is that normal or reasonable. They aren't making revolutionary games with revolutionary graphics that warrant that price point. And no game should cost that price at all. In my opinion, I could maybe justify a really good game costing $50 and I feel like that's pushing it.
Secondly, why are the physical copies of the game more expensive??? IN MY EXPERIENCE I have NEVER seen that before. I grew up playing on Nintendo consoles and the physical copies of the games were the same price as digital.
I personally own the switch and I choose to buy the physical copy whenever possible because I can find them cheaper used. I bought the physical copy I lost my original Nintendo account I made when I was gifted the Nintendo 3DS. I had it for years when the circle pad broke and I decided to buy the New 3DS used. I transferred my Nintendo account to the new device and then realized that the cameras did not work. I tried to transfer the Nintendo account back to my original 3ds and you were not allowed to move accounts to older devices only go forward. Since then no digital copies for me. It's when I realized that you don't own the games because Nintendo has control over which devices you can link "your" account to.
This has only gotten worse. when Nintendo decided to further choke their LOYAL LOYAL(because people love the Nintendo games) by adding to their terms of service:
"Without limitation, you agree that you may not (a) publish, copy, modify, reverse engineer, lease, rent, decompile, disassemble, distribute, offer for sale, or create derivative works of any portion of the Nintendo Account Services; (b) bypass, modify, decrypt, defeat, tamper with, or otherwise circumvent any of the functions or protections of the Nintendo Account Services,...You acknowledge that if you fail to comply with the foregoing restrictions Nintendo may render the Nintendo Account Services and/or the applicable Nintendo device permanently unusable in whole or in part."
Essentially if you hack your Switch 2 they will brick the console. YOU BITCH. I spent my money I 'bought' the device so if I wanna do illegal things on said device like hacking and pirating. It is my god given the right to choose whether to break the law or not.
In my opinion, they saw that when they shut down the eshop for the 3DS it soared in popularity because people( me included) were hacking and homebrewing the device to have free access to all the 3DS games that were once on the eshop. They got greedy and decided to shut down the eshop to get the last 3ds users to move to the switch but it backfired and they lost money because people were no longer given the choice to 'do the right thing' and purchase the games.
So, in 10 years when Nintendo abandons the Switch lineup and moves on to their next thing. People won't be able to hack their switches to download games that were only available on the eshop because they will get bricked. So you spent 700 to essentially rent the Switch 2 because you can't do with your device whatever you want to do.
This honestly pisses me off because it's much bigger than Nintendo. There has been this big push towards everything being digital copies but you don't own those. Time and time again companies get rid of digital games, movies, and TV shows that we 'bought'. To me, that's the corporations stealing. I don't care what the terms of service technically say. Everyone bought it under the assumption that it was yours and we've had the rude awakening that we don't own anything digital.
Either way... I homebrewed my 3DS and I would 100% do it again. I will hack my switch once Nintendo stops supporting it and I will never directly buy from them again. Maybe when the Switch 3 comes out I'll buy the Switch 2 secondhand. Because by then I trust and know that hackers will have found a workaround to Nintendo's hacking ban. I have an iPod and you best bet that I pirated most of the music on it(didn't pirate music from independent artists I'm not cruel :/ ).