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Nintendo Switch 2 overhaul could bring a removable battery — new revision aims to comply with the EU's Right to Repair regulations (www.tomshardware.com)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/right2repair@discuss.tchncs.de
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Say goodbye to expensive battery replacement?

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[–] 29 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Say hello to expensive batteries with a TPM-like chip!

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    • [–] 14 points 7 months ago* (1 child)

    That'd be sick as fuck. Shame it sounds like it'd just be in the eu

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    • [–] 8 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    New batteries available at just 90% of the price of a new console. Oh, sorry. You have the version 1.3 console, we only still make batteries for the 1.4 console and above.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Well that's a bit pessimistic. The optimistic take is that third party companies produce cheaper batteries.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    That is optimistic.

    There doesn't seem to be anything in the EU regulations about DRM on batteries, so there's almost certainly going to be a chip on there with a code embedded in it.

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    • [+] 6 points 7 months ago (4 children)
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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Not invalidating anything you just said, but the switch 2 heavily encourages you to use a Micro SD Express Card to store your downloaded games.

    I wonder if I can use DD to make backups...

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    • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    🇪🇺

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    [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    Oh yes! Time to release a "better" version of the Switch 2 after 3.75 million of them have been sold in Europe. This should have been a day one feature.

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