Game Key Cards 1 Year In

[Leynos]

JRPGfan said:

Leynos said:

Something seems off with this video. I just tested my games including Xenoblade X. All work just fine without internet. 

You need new firmware on your switch.
You need to have no patches or game installed.
Then first time you launch it, it req. a patch from the internet without which you cannot launch or play it.
This means that potentially way out in the future, if nintendo servers for switch 2 ever go down, and you uninstall a game that has a patch.
You could maybe run into issues.  (It doesn't mean, that a patched game and updated one, cannot run ever offline. If that is what you assumed?)

But like other's have pointed out, even to this day, nintendo still allows you to update and play Wii games.
Ei. if you connect a old nintendo Wii to the internet, you can still update games. 
Which means nintendo still supports the Wii with servers, even 20 years after it's launch.
Likely something like that will still happend with the Switch 2.

So potentially even in  the year 2045.... you could likely still update switch 2 games, even if nintendo closes switch shops ect.
(if they support it as long as they have the Wii)

My friend deleted all his ToTK data off his switch. Put it in and it worked fine.