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I had this experience playing couch co-op call of duty a few years ago. I had to make a fucking account. It's not even my console.

Nintendo has wavered a tad, but they're the closet to the original experience. You pop in a thingy, hook up another controller, or two, or three, and you're off. It just works, maybe you can input a name for your guy, maybe not, maybe you just always play Waluigi so everyone knows who you are.

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Nintendo is also becoming worse. Some Switch 2 games are so big you need to juggle with the internal storage and expansion SD express cards above 256Gb are simply unobtainable or priced outrageously. While you can obviously delete and redownload titles that takes a while and it's a shame the console storage can be completely filled with 4 AAA titles. That in combination with 'key carts' that are just a download key and still require internal storage has put a big brake on my game collection ambitions for the time being.

  > I had to make a fucking account.

ea games are like this, same for ubisoft... in my case i just disconnect my switch 2 from wifi and they don't bother about it (much anyways).

i wish console makers would be a bit more strict with policies like this cause as you indicate, it hurts whole usecase of consoles in the first place

Had to do the same with halo infinite at my friends house, tried to use some burner emails and it kept banning our 2nd player within a few minutes. Gotta love the digital future.

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