Switch How worried should we be about this Switch cartridge decay thing?

[ThatOneLum]

Saw this article today, wondering how seriously folks are taking it:

PSA: You Could Lose Your Switch Games If You Don't Play Them For Multiple Years

If you've had a Switch game sitting on the shelf for more than five years, you might want to consider booting it up again for a second.

www.thegamer.com

What do we think? Is this a confirmed problem were gonna have to be careful about or just hype?

 

[Matricks]

Dire Sereal, Its not a hype!
Layman peasants takes everything for granted, dont understand How Advanced these Tech are but are also weak durability.
Later big memories roms tech are not everlasting, because tiny nanotech are diffult to maintain.

 

[Bluewyne]

Seems a bit alarmist, not sure if I believe it.
Though even if it were true, it wouldn't affect me much. By the time "diskrot" reaches any of my games, I'd probably have already modded my Switch by then and not even be reliant on physical media.

 

[Matricks]

Its more concerns for the Sealed Original Roms Collectors Tradings market worth $$$$$ for a single working hardcore rom.

 

[Prism_Red]

Regardless of the validity of the article in question, we should always treat our stuff, Ninty's cartridge or not, with great care. That's the best thing we can do now.

 

[fake-kun]

Who are this "we" you're talking about?

 

[Nebulon_Galaxy]

Saw this article today, wondering how seriously folks are taking it:

PSA: You Could Lose Your Switch Games If You Don't Play Them For Multiple Years

If you've had a Switch game sitting on the shelf for more than five years, you might want to consider booting it up again for a second.

www.thegamer.com

What do we think? Is this a confirmed problem were gonna have to be careful about or just hype?

It's all a fake, no fucking way this is true. I got Super Mario 64 DS that I haven't touched since 2000s and I booted it up recently, the fucking game works like new. I also have Switch games that have been sitting in my shelf since 2017 that I just used recently, and it worked fine.
You know what this is? I think it's a conspiracy to make people's games gain more value when reselling or fear mongering to move more people into digital.

 

[Pearly]

It's all a fake, no fucking way this is true. I got Super Mario 64 DS that I haven't touched since 2000s and I booted it up recently, the fucking game works like new. I also have Switch games that have been sitting in my shelf since 2017 that I just used recently, and it worked fine.
You know what this is? I think it's a conspiracy to make people's games gain more value when reselling or fear mongering to move more people into digital.

I'm thinking fear mongering for pushing all digital. It's bait at the very least. I've got cartridges dating back to the mis 80's and they're fine. The all digital isn't as much of an issue as the all streaming subscription format that is being pushed, nintendo online likley makes more dosh than hosting downloads for each game instead. It sucks though, I'd prefer to run everything from my machine without online access, be it digital or physical, not a sub par subscription services where any games with licenses get pulled after a period of time

They used to say the same about new modern flat monitors and TV screens, that they only last 5 years, top. I've a TV going on a decade now that I want to break at this stage so I can upgrade it to an newer OLED TV. My wife is attached to how functional it is, i.e., she does not see the need for OLED D:

Also CRT TV's were much more fragile, they literally will just stop working one day.

 

[fake-kun]

lol

lmao even