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Nintendo hopes that "every single person" will own a Nintendo Switch, and that it can prolong the life cycle of the console to beyond 5-6 years.
Maybe Linux on Switch could help?
[Hacker] group Fail0verflow has claimed to have found a Nintendo Switch hack.
The group has posted the picture of Switch booting a Debian GNU/Linux installation. The picture also shows a serial adapter connected to one Joy-Con docks. Notably, Fail0verflow is the same group that hacked Nintendo Wii and PlayStation 3.
What makes this Nintendo Switch hack special is that it can't be patched in the currently released consoles. This is because the exploit was found in the boot ROM process of Nvidia Tegra X1 chips that can't be patched with software or firmware updates.
That's not all. This hack to run Linux doesn't even need a mod chip to run.
Also at TechCrunch.
Previously: Nintendo Switch Homebrew Mode Coming Soon Due to NVIDIA Tegra X1 Exploit
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(Score: 2) by Sourcery42 on Wednesday February 14 2018, @05:20PM
One reason I can think of is to stop people from running emulators. I have a wii with homebrew emulators on it that prompted some nostalgic runs through old 8 bit and 16 bit games. I think that wii has spent more time running old games than it ever did playing anything that was actually released for it. Thing is, Nintendo is still trying to monetize those old games. They continue to sell some classics for modern systems through their store. I think they call it virtual console or something like that. They prefer to have you pay them a second time for a classic game rather than loading up a rom in FCEU.