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Re:Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard by bzzzt on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @09:53AM (#29980019)
Forever seems like a stretch. When Switch is succeeded, how long before Nintendo shuts the Switch shop down? You can't legally move downloaded games between consoles.
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Re:Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard by colejohnson66 on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @10:04AM (#29980179)
This was a big issue with WiiWare when Nintendo shut down the Wii Shop. People could keep what they had downloaded, but once the Shop shut down, you couldn't redownload anything.
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Re:Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard by mcphage on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @10:10AM (#29980270)
> People could keep what they had downloaded, but once the Shop shut down, you couldn't redownload anything

You can still redownload things. Nintendo says at some point they'll turn that off, but they haven't said when yet.

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Re:Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard by colejohnson66 on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @10:16AM (#29980372)
Ah. My mistake. My point still stands: you're at the whims of Nintendo.
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Re:Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard by toyg on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @10:08AM (#29980253)
Download is only one way to buy Switch games, and at least I'll still be able to use one console - compared to zero as soon as I stop paying my feudal obligations to Apple.
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Re:Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard by colejohnson66 on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @10:16AM (#29980380)
Not every game on the Switch Store is available on cartridge
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Re:Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard by bzzzt on Friday January 21, 2022 @08:26AM (#30023154)
And almost every game available on cartridge has some kind of patch only downloadable from the store. Some don't even have all their data on the cartridge and need a download to function at all...
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Re:Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard by toyg on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @10:17AM (#29980403)
Still more than the zero available for iOS.
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