I agree Nintendo has gone too far with their antipiracy policies, but I'm trying to understand if consoles are actually getting "bricked" (not fully truly bricked, clearly, if Nintendo posses the killswitch to restore its functionality) and completley inoperable, or if they are just disabling online services for customers like the bans they've done in Switch 1? I know the EULA says they can brick it but I have seen no evidence of actual full kills happening.
My biggest gripe is that it seems journos and youtubers are conflating the two. Even a pseudo brick is not the same as telling you that your games will work but only offline and your online sub was taken back.
Both suck, I don't support Nintendo doing any of this, but we can't just report incorrectly what's happening. It vastly changes the story, makes pro-consumer right movements unreliable and untrustworthy, and gets us nowhere to mislabel.

Isn't it just a ban from their online services?
>Trying to get facts about a situation where console warrior subhumans only care about owning the company they're against

>>716360346
I am also wondering. I understand the borederline futility of having this discussion but this point of contendion makes a big difference on what we understand the problems with the Switch and with Nintendo are. It also frankly affects software development for the console.

>>716360214 (OP)
Listen, you pedantic retard

Video games and video game consoles have become fully engulfed by the tendrils of online services, we're at the point where they're selling physical keys to download games from their servers. If you're barred from those services a sizable portion of games will be rendered inaccessible because you can't download game key card games on a banned console.

I don't care if I can browse menu icons and launch the three to five games I'm able to fit on the console's internal storage, they've effectively rendered the console useless.
>>716360346
Yes, it is "just" a ban from
>Downloading previously purchased games
>Downloading games from game key cards
>Updating games installed on your system

>>716361426
>Yes, it is "just" a ban from
>>Downloading previously purchased games
>>Downloading games from game key cards
>>Updating games installed on your system
That is all I want to know. You call be pedantic but lying and giving erronious information is how the evil of groups like Just Stop work. I will not disagree with your assesment on how gaming online and linking to servers is more and more integral to gaming everyday, BY FORCE FROM THE COMPANIES THAT WANT TO KEEP FINGERS IN YOUR POCKET AT ALL TIMES. Calling it a "brick" when it just disables
Also if you care about rootkitting your systems to actually make them work for you it's an important distinction. Simply turning off an online service flag is different than having to find an element of hardware and/or designing a way to wake up the system and turn that kill switch flag off.
But my biggest gripe is that I want to know how ignorant or disingenuous jounos and videos are being. This isn't a brick at all, and labeling it as a brick falls under the same dishonest flaws I outlined before.