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In short, if you happen to hack your Switch or run emulators, you may find that it winds up getting bricked entirely.

Nintendo is Nintendoing again!

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

At least, not until there's a guaranteed CFW for Switch.

There is for early models of the Switch:

https://switch.hacks.guide/user_guide/getting_started.html

If you are interested you’ll have to buy a used one, older is more likely to work.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

i would rather by a tablet or a pc then buy a switch just to mod it

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago

Well, I wouldn't buy anything but a used one - do you think I'm going to give any money to Ninty's lawyers?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

This is the only thing giving me any slight of interest in wanting to get a switch 2. I have an early switch and its pretty cool what it can do when hacked

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago

We got lucky in 2017, I suspect it'll be a good long while before the switch 2 gets hacked, specifically in an accessible way.

A hacked switch (or even switch 2 really, looking at the specs) is really just a shitty steam deck that can run Nintendo games natively.

I wouldn't recommend forking over 500 bucks for something you may be able to jailbreak one day, when 400 can get you more out of the box.