[dmwilcox]

I guess I'm the odd duck with a switch that has never been online. It sounds like the switch2 isn't for me.

Sad but I don't want another device that wants to be more than it is, I basically want an updated version of my gameboy from the 90s and that's it. No downloads, no network, no social, just a game you can quietly play anywhere when you have a bit of time, no nonsense

[manojlds]

This thing already happens with download only games being sold. At least with the game cards you can sell the card again which you can't with the keys.

So essentially this is an improvement and you won't even know it if you only buy first party games.

[whitehexagon]

Hah, I thought it was just me. Mine was the same, never online, and this key based card thing makes me think that my next, and probably final console purchase, will be a replacement Switch 1. Although I saw the prices just went up, and I didnt even know about the oled version. The main thing that holds me back is the dof blurr in Links Awakening.

I imagine that Nintendo want a slice of this subscription based gaming scam. The HD versions already feel like a step in that greed direction. And I think I saw a collection of Mario 3D games that fell into that same repackage-and-sell-again category, with crazy pricing.

You might like the DE10-nano Mister project. I manged to get some old arcade cabinates running on a big monitor, no frame drops or lag like most emulators suffer, and no stream of 10p coins required. FPGA feels closer in terms of preservation.

[dmwilcox]

That's amazing! Thanks for the tip!