Because when you're the only person that can make the OLED Switch play pirated games of course you're gonna charge a premium for it. I mean some people aren't willing to settle for the unpatched model where they can hack it for free. Gotta have the less than an inch bigger screen and nicer colors! At that point their only option is spend an arm and a leg for a chip (and probably a professional install) or BUY all their games like a pleb.
Nobody has the ability (or guts at least) to make/develop a new chip, and that's all that matters to the nameless Chinese factory building these HWFLY chips.
I mean it's not like they're running a charity. Pay up or go with out, that's the way of capitalism.
I mean...I'm sure it was mostly selling piracy, since they very much were advertising the SX chips as piracy devices, and were apparently trying to offer access to pirated games via come cloud drive or Tinfoil shop or whatever...The sad part is Team Xecuter did all the R&D on this chip, and it's HWFLY that reaps all the profit. I guess it's karma for stealing Atmosphere's code for SXOS.
Sad? First off. The latest incarnation of TX were potentially involved with for-profit piracy. Sure. Hate on Nintendo all you want, and I think certain laws are conflicted about this but there is a clear difference from producing devices for enabling of homebrew that do not include copyrighted content to marketing a device as 'COME GET UR PIRACY HERE' and selling copyrighted ROM images on top of that.The sad part is Team Xecuter did all the R&D on this chip, and it's HWFLY that reaps all the profit. I guess it's karma for stealing Atmosphere's code for SXOS.
IMO TX Got greedy and attempted to profiteer off the SX chips with subscription services and the like. This is likely what gained the unwanted attention from Nintendo.The sad part is Team Xecuter did all the R&D on this chip, and it's HWFLY that reaps all the profit. I guess it's karma for stealing Atmosphere's code for SXOS.
IMO TX Got greedy and attempted to profiteer off the SX chips with subscription services and the like. This is likely what gained the unwanted attention from Nintendo.
This is literally the only valid reason in my mind to not get an unpatched switch if you are interested in homebrew or heaven forbid sailing the seas.The v1 unpatch battery is dying way too quick compare with v2 and OLED
It was called StargateNX and it was obviously super illegal, they should've known it was a bad idea.There was a subscription service ( I wasn't aware about it, I thought it just came with a free sx os license ). I was there when sx core was $50 all the way to the current pricing.
The price hike is initially due to factory shutdown then it became greed when hwfly took over. Imo, it is not that expensive if you live in North America or decent Europe country as it opens up all the switch to modding/games.
The v1 unpatch battery is dying way too quick compare with v2 and OLED. I have 2 unpatch, 2 v2 and 2 OLED ( all modded ). I leave my v1 sleeping and it loses 80% battery in 12 hour with a brand new battery.
*Reads some of the thread*It was called StargateNX and it was obviously super illegal, they should've known it was a bad idea.
https://gbatemp.net/threads/stargatenx-review.530932/
That was pretty much everyone's reaction on here when it was first announced. But I'm sure some people still bought into it.*Reads some of the thread*
TWENTY FIVE DOLLARS A MONTH?
For what? A reskinned copy of Tinfoil with a shop hardcoded into it?
Bloody hell and people on reddit are losing their shit over the one shop that you donate an eshop code one time to get into...I'd love to see what they think of this.
because nobody else makes them.How come a clone is twice the price of its origin? Does the part actually that expensive or they just blow up the price because last year shortage?