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  • Nintendo-owned titles excluded from Japan’s biggest speedrunning event after organizers were told they had to apply for permission for each game

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  • I don't know why Nintendo feel the need to get so overly protective over displays of their games (streaming, competitions, so on). There's been so many games I have bought because I saw someone play it on a stream or something and thought it was neat. What are they even losing out on? They are just shooting themselves in the foot here.

  • Nintendo raises the Switch 1 price from $299 to $339 / The Switch OLED price jumped by $50 on Sunday, to $399.99.

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  • This does make me wonder how much Nintendo are subsidising US bound Switch 2s, considering the price on that hasn't increased since launch (yet). Maybe they think it's worth it to take a hit on it and try and make it up with higher priced software?

  • The HORI Piranha Plant camera for Switch 2 drops to $40

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  • The interest in it probably evaporated the second that people found out it was 480p. If it was 1080p like the Nintendo one people would definitely buy it more.

  • Nintendo bans Switch 2 owner after they played used Switch 1 games — decision eventually reversed after proving ‘innocence’

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  • Wasn't Gaben's point in that statement that although piracy inevitably happens to some degree, the best way to mostly prevent it is to make a good service? That's why Steam was such a success, as it made digitally licensed games easily accessible to PC gamers who were previously being screwed over by other platforms.

  • Realizing Arch isn't for me after updating broke VLC

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  • It is a KDE thing, but Fedora is the distro on which it works best. On a lot of other distros it often runs into problems.

  • Nintendo Is Seeking Player Feedback On Game-Key Cards In Japan | Nintendo Life

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  • I think Nintendo would be able to manage getting a good price per gig on 32GB and 16GB cartridges. They have massive demand (a vast amount of Switch 2 games are under 16GB) as well as close historical relationships with flash manufacturers. In addition, I wouldn't be surprised if those sizes were still mass produced at low prices for embedded or industrial computing use, even as consumers move to larger storage media making consumer SD cards at those sizes more expensive per gig.

  • Realizing Arch isn't for me after updating broke VLC

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  • I've tried quite a few distros (openSUSE, Ubuntu, Solus, Arch, so on) and none seem to offer this feature. It's a shame, as it's quite useful to have since updating a live system can sometimes cause some trouble. Even just the updating from Discover can be broken on some systems (I know openSUSE at the very least acts a bit funny when it comes to PackageKit, I think Arch as well).

  • Realizing Arch isn't for me after updating broke VLC

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  • Can definitely recommend Fedora too. Software updates are at a good pace, and the system has a lot of polish all around. For example, all you need to do for updates is to press "update" in Discover and it'll do everything for you, applying on reboot for stability. Most things "just work".

  • Nintendo Is Seeking Player Feedback On Game-Key Cards In Japan | Nintendo Life

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  • Nintendo needs to get to work making smaller cartridges for Switch 2, 64GB carts only is too expensive for a lot of publishers. I do think key cards have a purpose for 64GB+ big games that would be very expensive physically without the key card system, but smaller games should have the whole game on the cartridge. At the very least Nintendo needs to ban code in a box and make those publishers move over to key cards.

  • Nintendo Rolls Out New eShop Publishing Guidelines for Switch 2 in Asia, Seemingly to Curb Spam Games

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  • Hopefully they can manage to stem the flow on the eShop. The shovelware problem is worse than it was on the Wii. However, I have noticed recently on my Switch 2 (also maybe on Switch 1 eShop as well now?) that a lot of those sorts of games aren't flooding the front page all the time, which is a good sign. They probably changed some of the algorithms, as I think they were tuned to show newest releases first.

  • Anyone else still getting StreetPasses on their 3DS nowadays?

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  • In my experience, even when new my 3DS XL died way faster in sleep mode compared to the Switch. I've had a Switch in a bag for nearly two days on sleep with some light gameplay and still have at least 50% of its battery. Meanwhile, the 3DS XL battery went down quick enough one of my first purchases was one of those USB charger cables so I could charge it anywhere. It lasts under a day on sleep with some light gameplay.

  • Nintendo @lemmy.world
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    Anyone else still getting StreetPasses on their 3DS nowadays?

  • Switch 2 Pro Controller: Built to Break? Full Teardown | iFixit

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  • What sort of AAs were you using? I used to get around at least a month or two on a set of fully charged standard Eneloop AAs. Then again, I didn't use my Xbox too intensely, maybe you had a different experience. It would make sense for the Elite to have longer battery life simply because of better battery chemistry (lithium ion on the integrated pack compared to AAs with nickel metal hydride).

  • Nintendo bans Switch 2 owner after they played used Switch 1 games — decision eventually reversed after proving ‘innocence’

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  • It is extremely unlikely that Steam are accepting of piracy. They may be negligent (maybe not investing enough into copy protection), but being even somewhat accepting would immediately tarnish their reputation with game publishers. Denuvo seems like more of a quick fix, not a real solution, that was put on after publishers started to lose patience. Even for their own self interest, they would be losing money on their own published games.

  • Nintendo bans Switch 2 owner after they played used Switch 1 games — decision eventually reversed after proving ‘innocence’

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  • You have a good point. As long as that fear is in the used games market, people will be incentivised to only buy new cartridges (if not digital) as they can't trust any used ones. The only sales then would be between people who know each other and are swapping their games, which is a far smaller market. It is somewhat ironic that the MIG Switch, a device made by people who have nothing to do with Nintendo, might end up helping Nintendo revenues by making it so that nobody can trust that used games weren't cloned.

  • Nintendo bans Switch 2 owner after they played used Switch 1 games — decision eventually reversed after proving ‘innocence’

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  • Don't give them any more ideas! No, but actually, this might be an unfortunate consequence of this whole thing. Locking it to a console would get rid of MIG Switch, but at the cost of killing a big used game industry. I think they wouldn't try it, due to the sheer amount of blowback they would get (far beyond anything else they've done before), but we never know.

  • Nintendo bans Switch 2 owner after they played used Switch 1 games — decision eventually reversed after proving ‘innocence’

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  • As in they would never allow that to happen under any circumstances. Companies are already clamping down on other platforms due to piracy (just look at how many Steam games have Denuvo in addition to the Steam DRM, Steam's protections get cracked fairly easily nowadays), so not surprising Nintendo want to nip any copying problems in the bud before shit hits the fan.

  • Nintendo bans Switch 2 owner after they played used Switch 1 games — decision eventually reversed after proving ‘innocence’

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  • Yeah, nobody buying used games will know that it was previously used for cloning. Hopefully they ease off on the bans until they can figure out a better idea on how to deal with MIG Switch.

  • Nintendo bans Switch 2 owner after they played used Switch 1 games — decision eventually reversed after proving ‘innocence’

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  • I do wonder what a more permanent solution for these sorts of situations could be, as right now these things are case by case. Either Nintendo tolerates the use of cloned cartridge IDs (which is something no game company/publisher/whatever have you would ever accept), or they bring down the ban hammer on random people who just bought a used game and had no idea it was used for copying (which is just a dick move). Nobody buying a used game is going to have any real idea where it came from, and in a lot of used stores the carts probably get mixed around anyway. Having any sort of checker for cloned IDs would also be difficult, as Nintendo's systems probably only catch it when both are in use at the same time. Perhaps they could use some system to look for MIG Switch use specifically, and only block that cartridge? That would probably be the best way to go about it, but I'm not so sure about the technical details that would make such a thing work, as it would require some reverse engineering of the MIG Switch.

    EDIT: I do think as well this article is too generous to Nintendo. The writer focuses on how easy it was to get unbanned, rather than the ban in the first place. Nintendo should at least start sending an email warning or something before deciding to block online. That would give people a change to figure out what is going on, instead of waking up one day to find they can't access the eShop or GameChat.

  • Switch 2 Pro Controller: Built to Break? Full Teardown | iFixit

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  • If you have one nearby, get your new rechargeables from IKEA. The LADDA 2450s are far cheaper rebrands of the usually decently expensive Panasonic Eneloop Pro, and they last such a long time compared to most rechargeables.

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    Does anyone have any experience with sending raw HID commands on Linux? Trying to make a project work

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    PSA for openSUSE Tumbleweed users wondering why Proton doesn't launch properly on a fresh install

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    Splatoon Raiders, A New Splatoon Spin-Off, Is Confirmed For Switch 2

    www.nintendolife.com /news/2025/06/splatoon-raiders-a-new-splatoon-spin-off-is-confirmed-for-switch-2
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    Has anyone experienced drift on Switch OLED (or Joy Cons repaired by Nintendo after around 2021)? Trying to investigate Joy Con 1 drift

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    Nintendo Switch 2 NOBUNAGA’S AMBITION: Awakening Complete Edition Q&A

    wccftech.com /nintendo-switch-2-nobunagas-ambition-awakening-complete-edition-qa/
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    First impressions of Switch 2 hardware and accessories

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    Games you would like to see in HDR on Switch 2?

  • Nintendo @lemmy.world
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    Better screws for the back of the Switch and Joy Cons to replace the tri wings

  • Nintendo @lemmy.world
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    Improved performance (?) from changing out thermal paste on Switch - and a question for anyone else who has tried

  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world
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    << Yo Buddy. You still alive? >>

  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world
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    Stop posting about Amon- I mean AI

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    Where's the fun if your WiFi card isn't broken again?

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    Successful move over after years of trial and error

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    HDR screenshots