The Nintendo Switch eShop is shutting down in China

AlphaBravo · 2024-11-26T17:18:15+0000

Haha If they put these kind of restrictions on American kids and adults, you would have full scale revolution! Don't fook with my fun time.

duwen · 2024-11-26T17:22:29+0000

Yay! Chinese pirates won!

seseiSeki · 2024-11-26T17:38:02+0000

BigOnYa said:
I just looked at my original Switch box, and nowhere does it say online services can and will be disabled in the future. This is just wrong and should be illegal. I know its inevitable but still, at least put it in writing on the box. "Guaranteed Online Access Till 202x". Yea its only in China but will happen worldwide eventually.

stopkillinggames.com is trying to get publishers to think about and communicate their end of life plans for new games to potential customers. If they make it, this "writing on the box" might be actually be a thing warning people of the inevitable shutdown.

BigOnYa · 2024-11-26T17:40:32+0000

seseiSeki said:
stopkillinggames.com is trying to get publishers to think about and communicate their end of life plans for new games to potential customers. If they make it, this "writing on the box" might be actually be a thing warning people of the inevitable shutdown.

Good, It should be posted on all console and game packaging so we know before buying it.

AmandaRose · 2024-11-26T17:47:25+0000

seseiSeki said:
stopkillinggames.com is trying to get publishers to think about and communicate their end of life plans for new games to potential customers. If they make it, this "writing on the box" might be actually be a thing warning people of the inevitable shutdown.

BigOnYa said:
Good, It should be posted on all console and game packaging so we know before buying it.

How exactly is that gonna work? Say a publisher brings out a new online game today and they think the game is gonna be a huge success so they put a date of sever shutting down on June 7th 2035 on the packaging and no fucker plays the game they are then stuck having to keep the game legally online until the published date. You only need to look at concord on the ps5/pc to see how this could go completely wrong for a company.

BigOnYa · 2024-11-26T17:52:32+0000

AmandaRose said:
How exactly is that gonna work? Say a publisher brings out a new online game today and they think the game is gonna be a huge success so they put a date of sever shutting down on June 7th 2035 on the packaging and no fucker plays the game they are then stuck having to keep the game legally online until the published date. You only need to look at concord on the ps5/pc to see how this could go completely wrong for a company.

Maybe they could state for example if at least 5000+ users still are using this service then guaranteed online till 202x, Idk, but you have a good point.

AmandaRose · 2024-11-26T17:58:43+0000

BigOnYa said:
Maybe they could state for example if at least 5000+ users still are using this service then guaranteed online till 202x, Idk, but you have a good point.

The problem with that is publishers would just put an unreasonable amount down and say 1 billion users or something stupid like that :rofl2:

chrisrlink · 2024-11-26T18:13:23+0000

i also wonder if nintendo is wising up to china's atrocities like with russia

MarkDarkness · 2024-11-26T20:43:56+0000

Shame that, like always, it's the players who get screwed.

Sir Tortoise · 2024-11-26T21:08:09+0000

AmandaRose said:
How exactly is that gonna work? Say a publisher brings out a new online game today and they think the game is gonna be a huge success so they put a date of sever shutting down on June 7th 2035 on the packaging and no fucker plays the game they are then stuck having to keep the game legally online until the published date. You only need to look at concord on the ps5/pc to see how this could go completely wrong for a company.

This sort of situation isn't exactly what SKG is pushing to change, though it could still be effected. Minimum length guarantees would be nice, but SKG's focus is more on end of life plans. So, they can run the game however they want while it's being supported, but when they drop support they need to leave the game in a functional state, in whatever form that might be - an offline mode, the ability to host your own servers, whatever.

So the eshop shutting down wouldn't really be impacted by that. The games you download still work fine. The only thing that could be relevant would be the ability to redownload previously bought games, but I don't think there's a practical solution to that.

4d1xlaan · 2024-11-26T21:41:25+0000

AmandaRose said:
I'm just here patiently waiting for the inevitable @Bladexdsl rant about how terrible Nintendo are

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NewGBAXL · 2024-11-26T21:44:56+0000

Just a hunch, but I don't think China will be getting the Switch 2..

subcon959 · 2024-11-26T22:08:34+0000

The Sun is going to collapse ......

...... in 5 billion years.

gnmmarechal · 2024-11-26T22:09:23+0000

2026 seems a lil early to shut it down ngl

Blythe93 · 2024-11-26T22:15:48+0000

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