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Nintendo faces legal action over ability to brick Switch 2s whenever they want (www.dexerto.com)
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[–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They can't get game updates, but they'll function as their base versions. If it had no way to play ANY games, that would qualify as a brick, even if you could turn it on and navigate menus. But it still has a limited ability to play some games, so not a brick, just a severely crippled console.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Any of the games that aren't fully on the cart, require a download to even function in the first place.

    It's looking like (TBD) that this is how a very large portion of the games are going to be delivered.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago

    That's correct, a large portion of the games available will be unable to be obtained on a banned console (though previously downloaded games will still work). But some still will be, including, crucially, every first-party game, which is what people regularly say they bought a Switch 2 for. So it's not a brick.

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