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Wyrdness on 29 May 2025
bonzobanana said:
Shaun87 said:

Yeah this isn't really an issue, everybody has internet these days and doing a quick 20 second update or whatever isn't going to put the vast majority of gamers off.

I haven't seen which countries the Switch 2 is launching in except for Europe, Japan and US but the internet speeds of Africa and the Middle East can be very slow and unreliable. I'm a cheap skate who doesn't do much online gaming so my internet is only 25 Megabits per second but its extremely reliable and always fully at that speed. My mother has a much faster connection at her house but the reliability of it is much worse, I'm guessing she has a horrible contention ratio. Her connection is 150 Megabits. However if you downloading something without a resume feature then mine would be the better connection. If she had a Switch 2 it wouldn't surprise me she had to download it multiple times before she got it.

Firstly I'm from an African country (Zambia) the internet speeds are pretty good each time I visit to the point that they're on par with western countries, South Africa and other countries like Nigeria and Ghana I hear have better internet then us and these are the other major markets were consoles are sold on the continent, I'm sure the Middle East isn't too bad either.

Secondly you don't need the internet for the platform update as these will be on physical carts as that's how they make sure you have the latest firmware on your console even if you're offline, it's why the homebrew scene literally have to buy two of the same platform and keep one fully offline with no physical games ran on it to avoid firmware updates. The second you put a Switch 2 game in the console it'll update, that's how they've did it with 3DS, Wii U and prior platforms so the internet requirement claim is just not true.



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Conina on 30 May 2025
Wyrdness said:

Secondly you don't need the internet for the platform update as these will be on physical carts as that's how they make sure you have the latest firmware on your console even if you're offline, it's why the homebrew scene literally have to buy two of the same platform and keep one fully offline with no physical games ran on it to avoid firmware updates. The second you put a Switch 2 game in the console it'll update, that's how they've did it with 3DS, Wii U and prior platforms so the internet requirement claim is just not true.

Nintendo systems install firmware upgrades from disc or carts without even asking the user for permission?



Wyrdness on 30 May 2025
Conina said:
Wyrdness said:

Secondly you don't need the internet for the platform update as these will be on physical carts as that's how they make sure you have the latest firmware on your console even if you're offline, it's why the homebrew scene literally have to buy two of the same platform and keep one fully offline with no physical games ran on it to avoid firmware updates. The second you put a Switch 2 game in the console it'll update, that's how they've did it with 3DS, Wii U and prior platforms so the internet requirement claim is just not true.

Nintendo systems install firmware upgrades from disc or carts without even asking the user for permission?

You're asked but if you refuse you can't play the game it straight up tells you that the game requires an update to be played do you want to proceed to update. I've had it a few times on 3DS particularly when I bought Fire Emblem Fates and once with Wii U, other platform holders have this as well in fact Sony were the ones to introduce it with the PSP.