Nintendo eShop closing down in Russia, limited to only re-download pre-owned titles

Takezo-San · Jun 1, 2023

So these are just digital downloads they cannot buy. Physical option would still exist I imagine!?

JeepX87 · Jun 1, 2023

Takezo-San said:
So these are just digital downloads they cannot buy. Physical option would still exist I imagine!?

Nintendo stopped ship physical copy to Russia after Russian invasion of Ukraine started in Feb 2022.

Russians would have to import physical games from Play Asia and other online stores that willing to ship to Russia.

Foxi4 · Jun 1, 2023

TomSwitch said:
Excuse to betray customers shouldn't be tolerated no matter who it is targeted at.

Crime committed to punish law-abiding civilians.

Also hate crime against minority. It's a BS political move.

Excuse me, what? Russians are *not* a minority in Russia, and the incentive here is monetary, not based on ethnicity.

You mean how many law-abiding civilians will now stop playing Switch games?

I think they won't, they will just migrate to US and then start buying game again. It's a free to buy game country.

It’s Russia, dude. It’s the Mecca of piracy. Switching countries won’t work when your debit/credit card aren’t working. It’s a set of unfortunate circumstances that hits both consumers and Nintendo, no doubt - given the opportunity, I assure you Nintendo would like to make money rather than not make it.

TomSwitch · Jun 1, 2023

Foxi4 said:
Excuse me, what? Russians are *not* a minority in Russia, and the incentive here is monetary, not based on ethnicity.
It’s Russia, dude. It’s the Mecca of piracy. Switching countries won’t work when your debit/credit card aren’t working. It’s a set of unfortunate circumstances that hits both consumers and Nintendo, no doubt - given the opportunity, I assure you Nintendo would like to make money rather than not make it.

Russians buying from eshop is not a minority? You have to define minority then. I am pretty sure what is call minority in USA has a very much larger number. Millions and millions more.

szlovak · Jun 1, 2023

Bladexdsl said:
they have to otherwise they either get thrown in jail or mysteriously vanish.

not true, they are like this totally privately, when you meet them somewhere outside their country or anywhere. It doesn't matter if they are brainwashed or plain dumb and naive, they are really supporting putin

TomSwitch · Jun 1, 2023

szlovak said:
not true, they are like this totally privately, when you meet them somewhere outside their country or anywhere. It doesn't matter if they are brainwashed or plain dumb and naive, they are really supporting putin

Guess which country have perhaps around 50% of the people that hate their leaders.

szlovak · Jun 1, 2023

Osha said:
Me when I lie out of my ass

don't measure others by your yardstick

Xzi · Jun 1, 2023

szlovak said:
not true, they are like this totally privately, when you meet them somewhere outside their country or anywhere. It doesn't matter if they are brainwashed or plain dumb and naive, they are really supporting putin

A whole lot of Russians have been jailed for protesting or attempting to protest the invasion, and militarized resistance from inside of Russia is really beginning to gain traction too. You can't blame the general population for what the Kremlin is choosing to do, but I think you can argue that they should've seen it coming. Putin had been growing progressively more unhinged and self-centered for a long while.

szlovak · Jun 1, 2023

Xzi said:
A whole lot of Russians have been jailed for protesting or attempting to protest the invasion, and militarized resistance from inside of Russia is really beginning to gain traction too. You can't blame the general population for what the Kremlin is choosing to do, but I think you can argue that they should've seen it coming. Putin had been growing progressively more unhinged and self-centered for a long while.

This what you said is that we can't blame anyone because there will be always some excuse. Yes, there is some resistance, but I'm talking about majority of Russian people that really supports putin from heart. if you went there and ask someone directly without any cameras they will say in 90% that they support putin. That's the point. So not selling anything at best to these "normal people" is good move.

MochaMilk · Jun 1, 2023

Nintendo has really been going off the rails all throughout this year and last.
It's like they're speedrunning being generally hated by the public.
Considering that we've only just not hit the halfway point of 2023, I'm pretty concerned of as to what else they've got planned to destroy...

Xzi · Jun 1, 2023

szlovak said:
This what you said is that we can't blame anyone because there will be always some excuse.

Oh I'm perfectly fine with blaming individuals for their own support of the invasion/Putin, just not generalizing or stereotyping.

ZeroT21 · Jun 1, 2023

Pirates don't really care if all they do is pirate

kuro0628neko · Jun 1, 2023

Xzi said:
They left precisely because they weren't making any money anyway, which means they would've left even without an ongoing war.

That's the line they're telling the public in order to remain in the West's good graces.

TomSwitch · Jun 1, 2023

kuro0628neko said:
That's the line they're telling the public in order to remain in the West's good graces.

It's a hate crime in the west ( persecuting innocent minority who didn't do anything other than being different )

mrdude · Jun 1, 2023

ZeroT21 said:
Pirates don't really care if all they do is pirate

I'm going to be honest and say I have a large PS4 games collection and never bought a single game or own any originals. I even got my PS4 for free from a freind when he got a PS5. For the Switch I bought crash bandicoot and that's my only original.
During the Xbox360 and PS3 era I bought quite a few originals, some from the Xbox and PS3 stores - but my consoles were banned due to being modded. When these games companies started banning me and not letting me get access to things I had paid for I just thought what's the point of buying anything from them, I'll just get it for free in future. I don't blame pirates at all, you do what you have to do.
As for DRM in games - I am not a fan of that and when I see a game that's had that DRM removed by a talented hacker I feel a warm glow all over.

Inevitably the Russians will still get their games from elsewhere, there will be people selling them and modding consoles all over Russia and a new generation of hackers will be born or be forced into hacking. The only ones that will lose out in this are the games companies, PSN, and a few innocent people that were buying the games being forced into piracy.

Foxi4 · Jun 1, 2023

TomSwitch said:
Russians buying from eshop is not a minority? You have to define minority then. I am pretty sure what is call minority in USA has a very much larger number. Millions and millions more.

”Playing Nintendo” is not a protected category. This is not a hate crime.

kuro0628neko said:
That's the line they're telling the public in order to remain in the West's good graces.

The west isn’t exactly on the best of terms with Russia. If what you say is true (it isn’t), wouldn’t doing the opposite put them in an even better position? Y’know, in support of Ukraine? Like half the brands out there?

Man, oh man - it’s an eShop conspiracy.

EmanueleBGN · Jun 1, 2023

I'll wait to see NoA do the same to the US in their next war

TomSwitch · Jun 1, 2023

EmanueleBGN said:
I'll wait to see NoA do the same to the US in their next war

Which side is NoA on? Left or Right?

Only Disney has come out. NoA is still unknown.

mrdude · Jun 1, 2023

TomSwitch said:
Which side is NoA on? Left or Right?

Only Disney has come out. NoA is still unknown.

Maybe they are not an any side or care about politics. This is the trouble with some people that are on one side or another, they seem think everyone else thinks the same way that they do and have the viewpoint that "if you're not with us you're against us", when most people literally just don't care and want to be left alone to get on with their own stuff.

TomSwitch · Jun 1, 2023

mrdude said:
Maybe they are not an any side or care about politics. This is the trouble with some people that are on one side or another, they seem think everyone else thinks the same way that they do and have the viewpoint that "if you're not with us you're against us", when most people literally just don't care and want to be left alone to get on with their own stuff.

I also don't think NoA would be involved ( at least not initially ) but I may be very wrong. It's hard to predict when a company would suddenly be woke. Did you see bud light as woke until recently?

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