It motivates companies to find better solutions.

They ban any users that they catch modifying the system in any way. It can go unchecked for a short time, but they ban in waves. The problem is there was an exploit found on the Tegra chip itself. You can gain access to a recovery mode to inject code on the older Switch models very, very easily. That and any other device using that chip. Luckily Nintendo does receive lots of user data and error reports (which are very common when using any kind of custom firmware) when users that hack connect online. No one's figured out how to block sending that kind of data to Nintendo like you can on the 3DS yet.

I wouldnt pay 5$ a year. Its such a cash grab without any real reason to purchase other than to play games online. They should have made it free this entire gen like sony did with the ps3.

Online services haven't been fkr improving infrastructure. 360 hardly invested in dedicated game servers. Developers had to pay for it themselves, and other platforms had them despite free access. They aren't expensive and game sales more than make up for the cost as it should be.

It wasn't till Plus showed that paying just to use your internet to connect to others on top of your ISP bill is a ripoff.

And still worse than PSN when it was free.

The only way that you could trust the data on the device would to be the have it encrypted on the device and only decrypted on the server. But that would mean the device wouldn't be able to read the local data and would have to get it from the server, so there isn't much point in having the data on the device.

The Switch has been hacked to hell already. It's actually hacked due to an exploit found on the Tegra chip itself, which gives very low access. You can install CFW with a paperclip (jig is a better idea) and SD card if you have a non bootrom patched Switch. Nintendo has been giving out loads of bans in the last few months to people caught using CFW, playing downloaded games, hacking, etc. Their methods of detecting people hacking are really pretty good, it's just no one predicted gaining access to the chip like that. It's very seldom seen. Nintendo has been trying, for sure. All the new Switches are bootrom patched, and like I said, they're handing out bans left and right, but there's only so much they can do when you have 15 million consoles out there in the wild that a child can hack with a 3D printed jig and a couple of software downloads.

Been playing playstation games on my Switch for months.

they should know that we are OG fans of VIII as it sold truckload as well. not as much as VII or X. I personally didn't like IX but X and VI are my personal fav.

Shadow Hearts 2 covenant is another game I love. I hope one day someone can make remake, I would be delighted

Final Fantasy VIII is great and you are always the first to defend it in the comments