I have no idea what point you’re trying to make. I have a switch. It barely gets played at this point. I’m sure the battery is dead. If I turn it on in 50 years and charge it, all the software will still work just fine.
DLC and bug fixes are downloaded as patches, once online support is gone you won’t be able to download that stuff again. So if you buy a second hand cart after online is gone or you uninstall the game data after online is gone there’s no getting that back. It’s gone without a modded console.
For example:
Breath of the Wild is on version 1.3.1, all changes since the version on the cart you have will be impossible to get once online functionality is gone.
That’s just false. The switch will load games offline just fine.
I’m talking about when Nintendo no longer support the online functionality of the console
And in the regards of patches
You will be unable to get patches for the game after they drop online support
I have no idea what point you’re trying to make. I have a switch. It barely gets played at this point. I’m sure the battery is dead. If I turn it on in 50 years and charge it, all the software will still work just fine.
The switch doesn’t need to be online to function.
DLC and bug fixes are downloaded as patches, once online support is gone you won’t be able to download that stuff again. So if you buy a second hand cart after online is gone or you uninstall the game data after online is gone there’s no getting that back. It’s gone without a modded console.
For example:
Breath of the Wild is on version 1.3.1, all changes since the version on the cart you have will be impossible to get once online functionality is gone.