• Aniki 🌱🌿@lemm.ee
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    11 months ago

    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.

    for all single player games I get a cartridge.

    • Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      11 months ago

      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.