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this post was submitted on 14 Feb 2026
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I see people say games crash on Switch way more than I'm used to hearing. I don't think I crashed a game on console ever during my childhood other than an old NES where it was mostly just dirty/bad pins probably. Now games are allowed to break completely seemingly.
Old games did break too it just resulted in the entire system freezing because the OS had no crash handling so the game would instead enter a state of undefined behaviour or freeze. The one i remember doing this the most was halo 2 which very often failed to load and needed a console restart.
Because of the way crashes were handled it probably felt like a dirty disk or cartridge but it could well have been a crash. But it definitely wasnt as common for sure
I played Cyberpunk 2077 on PS4 and at least for me, when it crashed it actually crashed the entire console somehow. I know that's an outlier and got pulled, but this was still the fully patched version.