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Forever seems like a stretch. When Switch is succeeded, how long before Nintendo shuts the Switch shop down? You can't legally move downloaded games between con

by bzzzt 5y ago

Forever seems like a stretch. When Switch is succeeded, how long before Nintendo shuts the Switch shop down? You can't legally move downloaded games between consoles.

colejohnson66 5y ago
This was a big issue with WiiWare when Nintendo shut down the Wii Shop. People could keep what they had downloaded, but once the Shop shut down, you couldn't redownload anything.
- mcphage 5y ago
  > People could keep what they had downloaded, but once the Shop shut down, you couldn't redownload anything You can still redownload things. Nintendo says at some point they'll turn that off, but they haven't said when yet.
  - colejohnson66 5y ago
    Ah. My mistake. My point still stands: you're at the whims of Nintendo.
toyg 5y ago
Download is only one way to buy Switch games, and at least I'll still be able to use one console - compared to zero as soon as I stop paying my feudal obligations to Apple.
- colejohnson66 5y ago
  Not every game on the Switch Store is available on cartridge
  - toyg 5y ago
    Still more than the zero available for iOS.
  - bzzzt 5y ago
    And almost every game available on cartridge has some kind of patch only downloadable from the store. Some don't even have all their data on the cartridge and need a download to function at all...