Still on my standard issue 11. Few scuffs and scratches on the edges but otherwise still working great.

Totally with you, we run them into the ground before replacing.

I’d wager the root CA certificates on the device are expired since it hasn’t been updated in ages. So it can’t trust certs signed with the new root CAs.

Persona 5 still, if you can believe it. It appears to be a very long game I’m noticing 100 hours in, but I’m still enjoying it and invested in the plot.

Is this gonna be another huge handheld?

Yeah, it’s generally up to the publishers if they want to use DRM on Steam or not.

Still GOG lets you download offline installers. Then you can archive them however you please. It’s probably worth something for someone not keen on borrowing digital licenses. Only real thing you’re giving up is Steam achievements.

My experience with it on Switch is great. Couldn’t tell it apart from PC honestly and it is well suited for handheld play. Guess it all comes down to availability of cartridges. One thing with the cartridge though is that when Nintendo kills off the patch servers and you decide to play again, it will most likely be whatever version is on the cartridge (still better than no game!). Normally this doesn’t bother me one bit, but this game has gotten a lot of updates adding a significant amount of content. An archived installer from a version you actually played will probably feel more worthwhile to revisit in 15 years or whatever.

No idea how available they are but I know they exist. I also know many releases on Switch were made in limited numbers and thus are really expensive on the secondhand market.

GOG also has it DRM-free if you decide to go the PC route.

This really sounds like it’s by design. The American prison system is designed to keep people in.

Perhaps there is some tech using flash storage that can be read/written by a floppy drive, but I doubt the prison would let it in if it looked odd.

Fun thread! Handhelds are great, wish they still made them in smaller form-factors though. They are getting chonky!

Something about being able to pause/suspend anytime and resume without the whole dance of booting console, then game, then load game etc. just for a bite-sized gaming session. Handhelds also has fewer distractions.

Dusting off my Switch to play games like Persona 5 Royal on it has rekindled my love for good games and made me more averse to live service games. For the longest time I have felt like playing without some externally visible progression (rank, achievements, cosmetics etc.) was “pointless”. The longer I stay away from those kinds of games the more I am enjoying excellent narrative experiences in real games again rather than running around with checklists or playing virtual slot machines.

Stardew Valley I love on PC, but I have without a doubt racked up most of my hours in it on Switch.

Last few playthroughs of Dark Souls 1 was great on Switch too despite lower framerate and less responsive controls.

When it comes to Persona 5, I adored it on PS4 but I didn’t get that far before I got pulled away into other things. Now I’m almost 80 hours deep on Switch and loving it. Makes me want to play the new Persona 3 and 4 remakes but I’m holding off on getting a Switch 2 and I’m not getting anywhere close to those game key cards.

Also excellent on mobile, one of extremely few games permitted to live on my phone.

Don’t VPN services usually require you to pay through means only available to adults? Isn’t that age verification enough?

Ah but nobody ever writes 50GB of data continuously. /s

Playing Persona 5 Royal on the switch every time I have 15 mins or more to spare. It’s almost replaced doom-scrolling entirely for me. Excellent game I failed to get into years ago but this time I think I started while I was in the right headspace.

If you are considering this game and are at all busy, get it on Switch if you can. You frequently go through 40-60 mins of scripted events/dialogue without a chance to save, so the ability to suspend and pick up where you left it is a life-saver. It also prevents me from getting distracted by other games whenever I open Steam. Maybe I’ll finish it this time.

That sounds plausible. I guess we’ll see if real physical games start popping up soon.

I was probably just unlucky with it. Had a drifting controller replaced also within my short time with it.

Yeah PC is much better, we bought this for Demon’s Souls and the other exclusives we figured would release. Just became my partner’s go-to Genshin machine until it started making blinking rainbow artifacts very much justifying the epilepsy warning.

If only my PS5 could outlive the PS4.

The PS5 GPU killed itself (just) out of warranty and Sony refused to touch it without payment.

I thought the problem was that they only offer 64GB for Switch 2 and it has a per unit cost of 16 USD for 3rd party publisher. This seriously eats at the margins per unit especially for cheaper titles and makes them opt for the key cards instead.

Smaller games could fit on smaller and cheaper cartridges and bigger games will fill the whole cartridge and require additional downloads to be playable.

Game key cards are just digital games with added plastic. Sure you can resell/lend them but that is as far as any benefit goes.

In 10 years from now if you pop one of these in your console for some nostalgia you’ll be met with shut down download servers and disappointment.

Yeah now how will we give all the AI crawlers exemptions from uploading their ID and proving they are of age?

Poor guy, maybe he should get AI therapy.

If SKG get what they want I’ll be even better off when buying games on sale 8 years after release.

Imagine it’s already unsupported and thus:

• Time-limited FOMO events are disabled or left in a predictable cycle
• Can decide to play with friends instead of forced to play with cheaters the publishers can’t seem to keep out of official servers
• Related to previous point but toxic players usually follow the bigger player bases to have more harassment targets and you can ban them yourself if it’s private server or p2p
• Offline play and LAN: play with your travel companions on handheld devices without internet or during outages
• Cash shop shutdown if one existed

Games are ironically going to get better, like a fine wine, as they age and lose support. The alternative is that publishers make them as good at release so people don’t wait until end of life too buy it.

Downer take: I don’t know if this has been addressed by SKG but my biggest fear related to this is that publishers will push controversial updates that fundamentally change the game like EoC in RuneScape or disable core features before shutdown. That way they can say they left it on the newest patch. The game works, but nobody who enjoyed it before is going to want to play it. Even in this scenario the added regulation is a net positive though.