Recently, it’s been listening to audiobooks while sharpening all my kitchen knives.

This sounds so ominous lol

Weird, I don’t remember that being in the article when I read it.

It’s from a different article, that’s why I linked it at the end of the quote.

is there precedent for Nintendo going after people who sell Jailbroken devices without copyrighted content on them?

Not that I’m aware of. Companies are generally much more concerned about distribution rather than usage, as the former has greater potential to affect them financially. That’s why they try to shut down modding projects, go after re-sellers, threaten people who share (seed/host) pirated content, etc. It’s much more efficient than trying to target individual users one-by-one. In adjacent industries, like the film and music industries, companies target torrent site owners and seeders rather than people who only download pirated content. The definitions and legal precedents around copyright law in particular countries can also make it difficult for companies to go after individual users. Basically every single case I have seen in the decades I’ve been following this stuff involved people who were trying to make money or distribute publically.

The convicted man, identified as 58-year-old transportation businessman Fumihiro Otobe, was implicated in violating Nintendo’s trademark rights for soldering modchips to secondhand Switch motherboards and peddling them online for roughly $195 USD. The modified consoles are reported to have been bundled with 27 pirated games, but it’s unclear how many devices Otobe sold before being caught. Polygon (15/04/25)

As always, if you don’t try to make money from, and/or distribute, pirated content then you have nothing to worry about. You haven’t lost anything, you will still be able to modify your own Switch.

Maybe they finished the game lol

Prices will come down if people wait. I know today’s FOMO gamers have a hard time understanding this but no one is entitled to “accessible” pricing. Accept Nintendo’s pricing or wait for a better deal. Or you can have a tantrum and boycott, whatever.

You can also save a lot of money buying physical. New physical copies can have much bigger sales than their digital counterparts and secondhand games can be cheaper again. Big titles like Breath of the Wild and Mario Kart 8 Deluxe cost me less than AU $40. Almost all of my physical library is secondhand, I’ve saved a lot of money buying that way (which I then made up for with my eShop pile of shame).

People are too worked up over the pricing, which is not a particularly big deal and was to be expected if you weren’t living under a rock for the last few years, and not worked up enough over the apparent shift away from physical game cards. As usual, gamers are spending all their time and energy chasing completely the wrong issues.

Not necessarily, we earn more than Americans and are generally much wealthier.

Yeah, it is more likely to have the opposite effect. Prices going up as a result of Trump’s tariffs is just going to reinforce the victim mentality his supporters have.

On the bright side, your pile of shame is now so big that you can live in it and avoid buying a house!

Thankfully I have so many games on my Switch that I am yet to finish or even start that I have absolutely zero desire to buy a Switch 2 and deal with this problem. Never been so grateful for my pile of shame lol

We didn’t buy most games when I was a kid, we rented them.

Many people still rent games, for even cheaper then they did back then. Xbox Gane Pass and similar services are popular for a reason.

I like that there’s an option to play the original version now. My problem with Zelda remasters is that they’re not always a great representation of the quality of the game at release. This is obviously not an issue for most people, but when I’m going back and playing Zelda games I missed at release I like to judge them on their original design because that’s how I judged every other Zelda game I did play at release.

Same here, it’s part of the reason why I’ve never bothered to own a Sony or Microsoft console. Their first party titles are not radically different to anything I could play on my PC, and often I can actually play them on my PC with significantly better visuals/performance/input. Meanwhile, Nintendo is still puting out first party titles that are quite unique to their systems. It’s actually so good that they’ve become a portable-focused company now because their systems and games have become the perfect accompaniments for PC gamers.

Yeah like the closest Nintendo has got to mentioning specs is just a bigger OLED screen, which is so obvious it could barely be considered a spec drop.

Very true, though I think for many it is still a home console in their head because on the surface it appears like a direct continuation of the Wii U. It’s actually the opposite - a portable console that can optionally be used as a home console with, in some cases, improvements to the visuals when doing so. Some people still see Nintendo as being in direct competition with Sony and Microsoft when they really haven’t been for a long time now.

I would feel more confident in this film if it were animated. After decades of bad Zelda cosplay fan films, I find it very difficult to imagine a live action Zelda film not looking completely ridiculous.

You might enjoy some of Woo Min-ho’s films. ‘Drug King’ (2018) is a biopic about a Korean drug lord in the '70s, while ‘Inside Men’ (2016) is a political thriller focusing on corruption in modern Korean society (criminal organisations influencing politicans and the judicial system). I’d also recommend Na Hong-jin’s ‘The Yellow Sea’ (2010), which is about a Yanbian taxi driver who falls into the criminal underworld after racking up huge debts via his gambling addiction.

This would be amazing!

My problem isn’t that rhetoric targeting anti-Trump Americans is mean but that it’s counterproductive.

Typing this after you’ve just whined about “Europeans” is peak irony. You guys are so fucking clueless.