Hardware Who still has their Switch 2 Offline on Day 1 firmware?

karmesin · Mar 15, 2026

Eye-V-Sore said:
Thanks for all of the responses, all!

@lordelan - so if a modchip is the most likely outcome, then OFW would actually be irrelevant? Hmm, this is a tempting argument...

There must be some reason half of the community is still holding out, though. Are we all mistaken to do so? Is there any argument to holding out still? What are the genuine chances of a software hack arriving before a mod chip?

Au contraire: a modchip also frequently requires an attack surface, and that attack surface can just as well be in software.

Eye-V-Sore · Mar 15, 2026

karmesin said:
Au contraire: a modchip also frequently requires an attack surface, and that attack surface can just as well be in software.

Oh no! Well I guess I'm stuck again then. And the poll is split practically 50/50 now.

Skelletonike · Mar 16, 2026

karmesin said:
Seems like the community splits into two groups.

First: people who bought the Switch 2 to actually play it: younger, tighter budgets, no real alternative. They'll update. They'll buy key cards because there's nothing else.

Second: people for whom $500 doesn't hurt, already sitting on a Switch 1, a gaming PC, a Steam Deck. No urgency, no dependency. If an exclusive ever justifies it they'll grab a used unit for $300 on the side. These people will never update, and Nintendo has no way to pressure them.

The irony: group two is exactly the audience that drives homebrew and security research.

This isn't really correct.

I'm in my 30s, I own all platforms and have a decent laptop as well as a Steam Deck, I update my Switch 2 and use it quite often.
You'd be surprised but most people in general, want to play games on a system they own, especially if they are fun games like Pokopia.
Actually, I would say the opposite, most of the people that do want to hack a switch for free games are teenagers. Most people do not want homebrew or whatever, they simply want free games (I personally hack my systems when they're at EoL, mainly for fan translations (I do buy the japanese copies of the games when available)).

MasterJ360 · Mar 16, 2026

My 2nd Switch 2 is still in its box since the day 1 patch.

Newhouse-Estates · Mar 16, 2026

MasterJ360 said:
My 2nd Switch 2 is still in its box since the day 1 patch.

Sometimes i feel it woulda been better to get the day 1 firmware and update micro sd slot like you and a few others did.
Ohh well, Day 1 firmware will have to do.
However i was told you can use the sd card slot but only with exfat (or was it fat32)

emmauss · Mar 16, 2026

Newhouse-Estates said:
Sometimes i feel it woulda been better to get the day 1 firmware and update micro sd slot like you and a few others did.
Ohh well, Day 1 firmware will have to do.
However i was told you can use the sd card slot but only with exfat (or was it fat32)

You can't use exfat without the exfat driver update, and you can't use the sd express to store games without formatting it as exfat.

TPMJB · Mar 17, 2026

karmesin said:
Second: people for whom $500 doesn't hurt, already sitting on a Switch 1, a gaming PC, a Steam Deck. No urgency, no dependency. If an exclusive ever justifies it they'll grab a used unit for $300 on the side. These people will never update, and Nintendo has no way to pressure them.

The irony: group two is exactly the audience that drives homebrew and security research.

"Finally I've done it. After months of testing I am finally able to jailbreak the Switch 2 and run my backups."

>Cool, what games are you gonna play on it?

"Games?"

Marc_LFD · Mar 17, 2026

There's now a Handheld Boost Mode which is awesome news, we just need an OLED model to go along with it.

DbGt · Mar 17, 2026

emmauss said:
You can't use exfat without the exfat driver update, and you can't use the sd express to store games without formatting it as exfat.

Thats not true. You can fully use without problems an sd express card formatted as fat32 without ever needing the exfat driver update nor formatting into exfat

emmauss · Mar 17, 2026

DbGt said:
Thats not true. You can fully use without problems an sd express card formatted as fat32 without ever needing the exfat driver update nor formatting into exfat

Are you storing your games on a fat32 formatted express card?

fvig2001 · Mar 17, 2026

Wouldn't be surprised if it takes Xbox One long to get this hacked. I do hope it eventually happens.

Marc_LFD · Mar 17, 2026

fvig2001 said:
Wouldn't be surprised if it takes Xbox One long to get this hacked. I do hope it eventually happens.

The reason why it took so long for someone to hack Xbox One (and specifically the launch model) is just the lack of motivation as you can already do so much with it.

My only nitpick with my One X are the ads which I can't get rid of easily, need to block some DNS addresses or something.

Newhouse-Estates · Mar 17, 2026

DbGt said:
Thats not true. You can fully use without problems an sd express card formatted as fat32 without ever needing the exfat driver update nor formatting into exfat

Do we have concrete data about this?
Either way, looking online it was pretty pricy for a micro SD express adapter to even format it to fat32, Or is there another way?

fvig2001 · Mar 18, 2026

The update is for exfat support again because Nintendo is cheap. Day 1 people were using ExFat SD cards to trigger the exfat update. Wouldn't be surprised if Nintendo supports fat32 SD Express as it still uses HOS.

karmesin · Mar 18, 2026

Skelletonike said:
This isn't really correct.

I'm in my 30s, I own all platforms and have a decent laptop as well as a Steam Deck, I update my Switch 2 and use it quite often.
You'd be surprised but most people in general, want to play games on a system they own, especially if they are fun games like Pokopia.
Actually, I would say the opposite, most of the people that do want to hack a switch for free games are teenagers. Most people do not want homebrew or whatever, they simply want free games (I personally hack my systems when they're at EoL, mainly for fan translations (I do buy the japanese copies of the games when available)).

There's obvious overlap, but the core point stands: you bought it specifically to play the Switch 2.

Budget-constrained users gravitate toward piracy. Granted. But they're unlikely to pay a day-one premium for a console, then sit on it for 2–3 years waiting for a hack...

Skelletonike · Mar 18, 2026

karmesin said:
There's obvious overlap, but the core point stands: you bought it specifically to play the Switch 2.

Budget-constrained users gravitate toward piracy. Granted. But they're unlikely to pay a day-one premium for a console, then sit on it for 2–3 years waiting for a hack...

It doesn't really overlap, you mentioned:

karmesin said:
First: people who bought the Switch 2 to actually play it: younger, tighter budgets, no real alternative. They'll update. They'll buy key cards because there's nothing else.

I bought simply because I liked portable systems and Nintendo games, most of my friends that bought a Switch did it for the same reason. Not because I'm younger, on a tighter budget and have no real alternative.

I don't have data, but I'm pretty sure people that adults with a regular job are way less likely to pirate than kids and teenagers. You overestimate the amount of adults that care about hacking a system, the embers of the temp are not the Standard (and even in here most people are actually updating the console to enjoy it, so there's that).

Marc_LFD · Mar 18, 2026

karmesin said:
First: people who bought the Switch 2 to actually play it: younger, tighter budgets, no real alternative. They'll update. They'll buy key cards because there's nothing else.

"Because there's nothing else"

Nope, not buying empty carts.

gbazone · Mar 18, 2026

Still on day one patch. Hasn't been online since launch day. I have Mario Kart and Donkey Kong. Haven't touched the console in months.

RyanTheArchivist · Mar 18, 2026

Eye-V-Sore said:
I've held out so far! Launch system, day one firmware, airplane mode. But it's getting harder and harder for me to hold off, with Pokopia getting all the praise that it's getting. Is there any reason to still hold out hope, or has everyone else already given in?

I ended up getting two of them at launch by accident. So one of them I booted up, installed the day 1 patch to add SD card support, and threw it back in the box.

lordelan · Mar 19, 2026

Eye-V-Sore said:
@lordelan - so if a modchip is the most likely outcome, then OFW would actually be irrelevant? Hmm, this is a tempting argument...

That's likely to be the case but honestly, nobody knows at this point.
If you ask me for my recommendation: Just use your Switch 2 and have fun with it, if you're interested in any of the games or get second Switch 2 for that.

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