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Nintendo Is Telling Game Publishers Switch 2 Will Be Delayed (www.bnnbloomberg.ca)

submitted 9 months ago by simple@lemm.ee to c/games@lemmy.world

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Reports were saying the Switch was coming q4 2024, but now Nintendo is reportedly telling its partners that it's been pushed to q1 2025

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[-] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 17 points 9 months ago

I think I'm going to download all my digital purchases into SD cards and hopefully they'll still be playable when the OG switch reaches EOL.

[-] Geek_King@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

I hope that works! I never got into digital downloads on consoles in any big way, how companies make games from the online shop inaccessible once the console goes end of life is a damn shame! It feels like the more and more consoles move toward digital only, the less we'll have viable retro consoles in the future.

[-] cyborganism@lemmy.ca -2 points 9 months ago

Also, I wouldn't know how to back the sd cards up in case they break. You can't exactly do an image and duplicate them. It doesn't work so well with SD cards.

[-] BartyDeCanter@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 9 months ago

Uh, you very much can take an image of an SD card, the same as with any other block device.

[-] cyborganism@lemmy.ca -1 points 9 months ago

You can have errors when you write it back into another SD card and end up with a corrupt card. That was from experience a long time ago.

Maybe the tools are better adapted now?

[-] BartyDeCanter@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 9 months ago

That’s going to be a function of your SD card reader and the quality of the card itself. If you’re really concerned, copy it to your HDD, then read again and verify. And then when writing, do a verify step as well.

[-] 4am@lemm.ee 3 points 9 months ago

If this were universally true then SD cards would be completely useless, as regular writes would fail in the same manner. Bad card, bad slot, or bad tools.