Re: It's not your hardware anymore...

On Tue, 13 May 2025 19:57:06 +0200, "Werner P." <werpu@gmx.at> wrote:
 

Am 12.05.25 um 20:28 schrieb Spalls Hurgenson:

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Well, Nintendo has taken the next step.
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You know how we none of us really own our software anymore? We're just
privileged to 'license' it, and -for the most part- can only play our
video-games should the publisher continue to allow it? That if they
pull the servers, all of a sudden we can't download, authenticate or
run the game anymore, leaving the gamer with little recourse?
Glad my kids have grown out of Nintendo.. no sales from my family anymore.

Nintendo always had amazing games but always was a shitty company not as
in EA shitty, but awful enough!

 Its unlikely Nintendo would ever follow through with the threatened
step, especially since, as most --all?-- Switch 2 games are delivered
digitally. Just killing the associated account would effectively
render the device useless without damaging the device itself (probably
through e-fuses, although maybe an updated ROM that tells the machine
"don't work no more!"). Certainly their EULA (for US residents only)
gives them permission to do so, for pretty much any reason
     (specifically, "as we otherwise determine to be reasonably
     necessary for legal, technical or commercial reasons")
 Still, it's not really Nintendo that I'm worried about as much as
their setting precedent for other companies to do similar. This sort
of forced obselence is something a lot of device makers would LOVE to
do, and Nintendo has just opened the door on how to do it. Soon these
features will be built into pretty much all our gadgets, and once it's
common, it won't be too long before companies pull the trigger.