Nintendo Switch and Switch 2 firmware updated to version 20.5.0

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There's a new system software update available for both the Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Switch 2. Firmware version 20.5.0 is available to download. The patch notes merely specify stability, but a placeholder update page is available on Switchbrew once users have had time to datamine the update's contents.

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Does this really warrant its own article?
In terms of content, hardly a single firmware update has ever been worth a news post. However, it's for the consistency, of informing that there's a new update, regardless of content, because it's usually not known what's in the update until a little ways after its out.
 
Sad that Nintendo feels obligated to release updates simultaneously for Switch 2 and Switch. I was kind of hoping updates for the OG Switch would gradually slow down and eventually come to a halt.
 
I wonder how many average consumers are privy to the fact you shouldn't update your system

Are people out there really thinking their system is getting more stable?
I'm not sure why this would be bad for your system. Why would Nintendo intentionally fuck their base's product (outside of emulators)?
 
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I'm not sure why this would be bad for your system. Why would Nintendo intentionally fuck their base's product (outside of emulators)?
Each update is another chance to patch a security vulnerability that may enable homebrew
 
Each update is another chance to patch a security vulnerability that may enable homebrew
IMO if you buy a console just for homebrew, you better buy a second one. It takes sometime to exploit consoles nowdays. You should use your console as it's intended. Waiting for an entrypoint/exploit doesn't make sense. There will always be a chance to mod you console someday. I did the same with my PS4 Pro. Didn't play for 5 years and I just wnated to play again, checked the scene and there was an exploit for my console.
 
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I wonder how many average consumers are privy to the fact you shouldn't update your system

Are people out there really thinking their system is getting more stable?
Each update is another chance to patch a security vulnerability that may enable homebrew
That's some really busted logic you got there. You basically just implied that updating a console period is factually always bad, and that exploits being fixed isn't a form of stability. You also imply that every person using a Switch has or wants to run homebrew too. Wrong on all three counts.

Homebrew support isn't on Nintendo's todo list or radar period to support in any official capacity. They release firmware updates to address compatibility issues, fix bugs, fix security exploits within their infrastructure, or on the few occasions, add new features and or options. By definition, they are doing their job by supporting their platform and making it more stable. Just because it gets in the way of you running homebrew, doesn't mean that people aren't getting stable updates at all, or that each update is bad. It's a bad day for a homebrew user maybe, but that's just isolated logic to the end user, not a fact of reality with the general premise of things. You want a factually bad update? Consider calling out updates that negatively impact performance in some way, or cause very janky issues that didn't exist prior to said update, making the experience somewhat if not entirely unstable / unusable.

Boohoo if the update breaks an exploit, if a user decided to update the system, despite wanting homebrew, that's on the end user, not on Nintendo or anyone else. The user is the idiot. No victim here.
 
They could have ask AI to create a release note. Stability improvement lameness no more.
 

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