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It’s just strange I have yet to see anyone actually play a game using this.
Nintendo has a tendency to be a-holes to streamers who acknowledge they are playing pirated or modded games on their consoles. It is why you tend to want to follow yahoo anime rules even if you are obviously emulating a SNES.
But also… what is even the point of this? With the 3ds it sort of made sense since you really had no other handheld options. These days, portable gaming devices are a dime a dozen and the vast majority of the “modern” ones outperform the switch anyway. So people who are planning to pirate nintendo games already know they are 100-200 USD away from a much better experience that can ALSO pirate plenty of other platforms (and has Steam which gets rid of the nintendo tax for those who buy games). Which, factoring in the cost of the flash cart (looks like 59 USD from their US store with maybe 7 bucks of shipping?), isn’t even that much.
And for people who want to play it on their TV/PC? It is even easier to outperform the switch.
I guess there are “kids” for whom their switch is their primary and only console. But it has mostly slotted itself into the role as “the second console that everyone has” with a PS4/5 or XBOX whatever as the “primary” for non-Nintendo games. And the people who are going to be buying this cart likely aren’t 12 year old kids talking to their parents about why this random sketchy site needs credit card info…
The point is for people to have digital backups their roms to play legally and to play roms on native hardware that will guarantee smooth playing. The cost is also a factor since the switch is ending very soon; a used switch oled, a cart with 7 years worth of “free” games would <=$300. Pretty cheap if one wants to start gaming without breaking the bank.
Adding on to say, yes the Steam Deck is cheaper and better when getting one at the new discount prices. It all depends on preference for emulation or running on original software. And most here would agree that Steam deck with emulation is preferred.
Why would you think SD with emulation is preferred when a lot of the emulated games have frame rate and stuttering issues on it? A switch with flash cart would play the games perfectly.
You’re talking like everyone owns a steam deck od Rog Ally, or should just buy one of those instead? Well for starters, the SD doesn’t play switch games all really well. Frame rate and stuttering issues and not all games work.
Secondly; and the bigger thing is that the SD is far and away the most popular pc handheld. It’s estimated to have sold around 4 to 6 million units so far. I love mine. It’s awesome. Switch has currently sold 132 million units. It’s the most sold system in the world. More than any xbox, ps4, or ps5.
You’re talking like the Mig isn’t for people who already own a switch. You’re also in some weird edgelord mindset where you think mostly just kids own a switch? Nintendo releases the age demographics of switch users, since you enter in your birthday on your profile. Every age between 18 and 45 is higher than any age under 17. Most people with a switch aren’t 12. They’re 25.
I have been gaming since my parents bought me an Atari 2600 for Xmas in 1980-whaterver. I got a Switch for my 50th bday and it is a great console. Love it.
I will prob never buy a Steam Deck or equivalent though as they are costly and (IMHO) inferior to what I could get in a gaming laptop for similar money.
I am the legal target audience. I have a PC that I use at home for most games and a switch that I use for flights and business trips. I buy most games on physical karts because I prefer them to digital and buying used games on eBay is half as expensive as the eShop. Having 3-4 games on a single chip would be much more convenient than carrying several games with me.
Also I bought it in ~2018. In 2018 there were no other good portable game systems at a reasonable price point. There are a lot of good Nintendo exclusive games series out there. Yes there are modern portable systems that can emulate the switch but I’m not going to buy a new system to emulate something I already own.
It seems like this will be able to play modified games too. I would love to try out some custom games on my switch.
The piracy option is also nice but I could almost justify the kart without that.
Copyright Mig-Switch 2024 - A product of Mig Switch, developed and produced in the Russian Federation
You’ll understand if I don’t contribute to their tax base for now.
Dude wtf. Russians citizen are not equal to Russian government. They are just people.
Every government is partially founded by taxes, are you suggesting we should avoid economical transactions with every citizen of a state you disapprove? Or is it just a Russian thing?
Russians citizen are not equal to Russian government. They are just people.
I know. I love Russians. I wish Oleg Strizhenov, Bradshaw and Aleksandr Dulerayn, Anna Melikian, and the gals from Pussy Riot all the best. May their government cease being made up of Mafiya members The West recognized in the early 90s as soon as possible.
I objected to the device being produced in (and hence paying taxes to) The Russian Federation, not being made by Russians.
I love Russians.
I don’t know, I’m American, I can’t really eat if I don’t indirectly pay money to the largest neo-imperialist empire in the world (who is currently funding a genocide btw).
There is no ethical consumption. You either consume unethically or you die.
You sure don’t support them enough for how much you speak of how you love them.
Or maybe you mean you love , like love, them?
This is just a theory/rumor (and partially a cope) but some people have floated the idea that this might not even be produced in Russia, and the overbearing Russian/Soviet symbolism is to throw off Nintendo and hide where it’s really being produced.
Afaik there’s no evidence to substantiate this, but if it were to be true, that would be hilarious.
I have the feeling it’s just a “cover my ass” situation, in this way when they receive legal requests they can redirect them to the trash can
While it’s possible that it’s developed in Russia because there are so many smart devs and engineers, it would be stupid to actually make the product in a country without the supply chain and they would need to smuggle everything from abroad and back for shipping to the rest of the world. And getting payments from the distributors
IMHO it’s actually made in an unnamed Chinese factory and in Russia there’s just a shell company (if at all)
Given they can’t seem to have a loader, I know they have to somehow trigger the Switch to know there’s another game - but can you imagine having to do that several times to cycle to the game you want? The cost needed to repair the cartridge slot after too many pushes is definitely going to outweigh having just bought a Steam Deck and emulated the Switch instead.
In the video, the solution looked to be a wireless remote that cycled the MIG cart to the next game, quite cumbersome IMO
Ugh… yeah… guess it’s cheaper than chipping it. I do wonder how quickly the big N will ban people all using the same game ID.
If I were to get my hands on one of these, I probably wouldn’t put too many games on there, maybe just one or two that I’m adamant on playing at the time.
I do have some low capacity micro SDs scattered at home as well that should barely be large enough to house a single switch game. So worst case scenario, I could also just pop the cart out, swap the micro SD, and plug it back in to only require a single insertion.
Granted, this might not be feasible for people who just want to use the migswitch as a backup tool to put all their legal games on one cart, but for pirates like myself I’d consider it only a minor setback.
Not to mention the cartridge slot probably being designed to last a lot of insertions before failing
Still gonna wait for the official release instead of pre ordering. That and might be good to wait and see what Nintendo might do.
