• Semperverus
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    025 days ago

    Steam Family Sharing and MIGSwitch scaring Nintendo into adding pro-consumer features.

        • @[email protected]
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          024 days ago

          Oh, the flashcarts. I don’t think it’s scaring Nintendo into doing anything:) With Nintendo legally trying to kill emulators it’s the other way around unfortunately

          • Semperverus
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            024 days ago

            Migswitch isn’t an emulator though. And they’re still selling them.

            • @[email protected]
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              024 days ago

              It’s a flashcart (that’s what I said in the first sentence). And I’m not surprised they’re still selling them if they’re in Russia (same if they were in China). I wouldn’t buy this shit anyway.

              • Semperverus
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                024 days ago

                Was actually made by a U.S. resident. He picked the Russia theme before a lot of the recent political garbage.

                • @[email protected]
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                  024 days ago

                  “Political garbage” they have attacked another country, unprovoked and without declaring a war, and it wasn’t the first time they did it even in recent years. Identifying with Russia/Soviet Union is not something that people should be proud of/making jokes. It was a regime that consumed more lives than 3rd Reich and seems to live on in Russia now.

    • @[email protected]
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      024 days ago

      What’s pro-consunwr about this? Before I could play Splatoon 3 with my son with one DL game, but it seems like they’re not letting me do that anymore.

      • Semperverus
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        024 days ago

        I don’t think they’re taking the old method away, but rather adding an extra option for multi-device game sharing. At least I hope they aren’t.

  • @[email protected]
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    024 days ago

    Giving back what they artificially restricted by the simple nature of everything being bytes that can be copied freely and easily. Much generous, such wow.

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    025 days ago

    I wonder if this closes the loophole of having two copies of the same digital game (buyer’s primary system, buyer’s account on a second system) running simultaneously. My spouse and I have been playing MK8 like that for years.

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      024 days ago

      Yeah, everyone giving it kudos doesn’t realize its actually even more restrictive than the previous setup.

      Before you could:

      • Have two consoles playing the same game (as long as both had wifi access).
      • Have two consoles share a library when not in physical proximity.
      • No time limit on sharing.

      Admittedly you could only share games one way with that, so it really only worked for two people. So families with more than two switched are about the only ones this would benefit (maybe a group of friends in close proximity).