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That’s rich, from a company that stops making or never makes enough its first-party accessories. Ask anyone interested in getting an Ethernet adapter for Switch, or a first-party Gamecube adapter more than like 8 months after those products launched. Get on Amazon and try to buy an official Switch dock from Nintendo; there is no official outlet for them there, so you’re either buying pre-owned, or a lookalike knockoff, or an explicit knockoff, or something that MIGHT be real but it’s from a weird seller, at a suspiciously low price, with some random text in the item name. Christ, get on Gamestop’s website! They only have refurbs and pre-owned ones. It’s been like this for as long as I can remember. Nintendo cannot be trusted to make their own shit and trying to stop third parties from doing what they won’t is peak anti-consumer behavior. A classic Nintendo Move™.
I know it doesn’t matter, but after all I’ve read about Nintendo and the Switch 2 in the last year?
Fuck 'em. I’m going to get a Steam Deck or a Lenovo handheld, and I’ll just enjoy the Nintendo products I already have. I’m not spending a small fortune on a console that they can brick remotely, or force me to buy a $50 proprietary charger for, or a “virtual game cartridge”.
Fuck all of that bullshit.
When you pay engineers to make a product worse
I bought a Switch last November and couldn’t believe the bullshit Nintendo is pulling. $60 for almost 10 year old games, horrible network adapter on the switch, no voice chat except through a stupid app and it’s not even available in most games. Add to that that the fact that I hate Nintendo’s policies and attitudes towards modding and emulation and consumer protection and I’m never buying another Nintendo console. I’ll go with the Steam Deck and I’ll be selling my Switch in the next couple weeks. Nintendo is an anti-consumer aggressively capitalistic corporation in my opinion.
How is this not illegal in the EU?
How would it be? Unfortunately there are still a lot of consumer hostile practices going on that are completely legal in the EU. I‘m no expert of course so I‘m curious what EU law would regulate this exact practice.
The EU went after Apple for their proprietary chargers and the court directed them to switch to the USB standard.
does charging not work on switch 2, or just A/V?
That‘s different than a dock which you could argue is part of the console.
EU made iPhone have proper USB C port, instead of proprietary stuff
It can probably do something about this too. I think USB C rule was only for phones so may not directly apply to Switch, but they can make Nintendo fix it.
I’m honestly sorry for any fan of nintendo, this is getting worse day by day.
