Hardware How many of you went on ahead and bought a 2nd switch (or sold their first to get new with low fw)?

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i just get upset with people who jack up the price from like $300 to $1000 bc of exploits
Yeah. Honestly I would probably just sell it to a friend or family member for the $300 I put into it.

I could have bought 3 switches on launch day and made a lot of money scalping them - but I didn't do it. The walmart by me still had 3 the morning of launch day - with no one lined up to buy them (rural area).
 
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For the time being yes, but soon you wont be able to play the new carts.
it'd be best to not connect the switch to the internet at all right ?

but what if the exploit would require a wifi connection ?
i'll be buying a new one by next week.

is there a way to block updates within the switch , would not want to block dns from nintendo on my router because i still need that for updating my 3ds'es.

anyway, i have really no idea how and when i had my switch updated to 3.0.1
it happens too fast i guess, so i would like to know what the safest way would be, and i guess that'd be to have the new switch i'd be getting turning on Airplane mode yeah?

argh, would not want to go through another one.

edit: i have disgaea 5 complete in physical , if i were to play it, i think the switch would pop up soemthing like, needing to have internet connection for it in order to launch the game ?
and then if i were to launch the game, it would fine a new update ._. and that would also update the switch's fw. (sorry i am going sort of paranoid on this one XD)
 
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i have done this twice already, however when something is preowned it really cant be scalped.
what i did was buy new ones then sell the olds. I did it off of craigslist.

i sold the switch for $290 and they went fast, But included an option to to bundle in which the switch went fr $280 in the bundle

$290 for switch
$45 for game
$320 for switch and game
 

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How much expendable money do you guys have? With a wife and 2 kids, I couldn't possibly justify a second of any console. I'm pushing my luck with a Switch, PS4, Xbox One and PC which overlap so much in terms of software lineup that at least one of those is redundant.

As much as I'd like a hackable Switch, I'm not prepared to keep my Switch on a lower firmware and deprive myself of new games just to play yet another port of Retroarch. My Vita makes a perfectly great handheld emulation console.
 
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I preordered the Mario Odysse game.
if it has 3.0.1 so be it.
Right now i didnt feel the need to update and i m stuck on 2.0.0.

Anyway - if the game updates the console i don't even care a single second about it :D
 

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I grabbed the Splatoon edition Switch at my local walmart tonight. It was the last one in stock. I just wanted to say this: It's on 3.0.0 firmware. I'm super wanting to update it just to gain eShop access and grab some games since I want this to be my first digital only console.
 

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I stupidly bought a screen only from ebay for $200 shipped. Everything I came across was already updated so I decided one for enjoying now and one for saving.
 

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Just got a new Switch on v1.0.0, but I think I'll just update it. I'll hunt for a lower fw if and when something comes of this hack
basically my plan
but who knows by this time next year there could be a way to "downgrade" or maybe there'll be just motherboards for sale like with the 3ds. who knows man homebrew could explode like with the 3ds you never know haha
 

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I stupidly bought a screen only from ebay for $200 shipped.
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No second Switch: I'm poor & my plan was always to do not update Switch until an hack will be released.
I have also some 3DS and Wii U games to play with - so, Switch isn't a priority at the moment
 

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