considers altering entire network stack to trick a Switch 2 into thinking it never leaves EU soil

"Nah, I'll probably just not buy one. Fuck em."

prevent access to online services...that's all they should be allowed to do. I don't think I'd be able hold back on any company that decided what I do with MY hardware.

better consumer protection says what

Common European W

Because in the US, you guys aren't really consumers (which would give you a status), you're merely walking and vaguely sentient (hopefully enough to click on "add to cart") wallets that the corporations pluck money from at every opportunity. This is your legally enforced reality.

Remember, when tech bros complain that Regulations Stifle Innovation, this is the kind of "innovation" they're talking about.

Well, their shitty attitude towards consumers is why I won’t be getting a switch 2. So they can try bricking my asshole.

Lol, why even buy such a piece of shit then? Even when in the EU, the fact they do this is enough.

Nah, they can, but likely won't risk it w/European owners’ “rights.”

Change the headline a little bit.

i stopped buying nintendo after wii. fuck them

It's gonna be a shame if H4ckerM4n2015 may brick you Switch after loosing a game of Mario Kart.

Vulnerability for me, not for thee, right?

yo ho, all hands, hoist the colors high,

heave ho, thieves and beggars, never shall we die.

The current management of nintendo will never figure it out. Piracy is the competition. It's not about getting the thing for free, it's about getting a better service. I'd buy mario 3 again (again) if that meant I'd get a rom I could run on my pc through FCEUX and enjoy all the features/enhancements that software offers. There's a handful of gamecube games available on switch2, but all of them are better through Dolphin than what official hardware can offer. Nintendo's refund policy is a joke. The eshop is unpleasant to use. Even ignoring all of that, the original switch only had a handful of actual first party titles, not enough to justify the console's price tag (and each those were merely ok, not enough to justify buying a console for one game).

sega sells their games on steam, and while I don't like the emulator they use I can at least say that I own a legal copy of sonic spinball.

Yet another reason for you peasants to throw down your pitch forks and accept the all mighty PC as your lord and savior.

Nintendo: "you bought our hardware, but we will brick it if you don't use it in exactly the way we like!"

Nintendo, you are supposed to be the good guy company remember?

I started pirating my Nintendo needs last generation and it runs so much better. Never buying from this anti-consumer company again.

This was the final straw for me, I'm done with Nintendo.

Hmm... How to use Switch 2 from behind a VPN so they think I am in Europe?