mamoru:

This entire Switch disaster has a recipe for a perfect horrible failure. The Switch does not allow you to backup saves to SD or cloud and worked fine with most 3rd party devices until now. A new update from a few days ago causes the system to brick when attached to any number of things (power bricks, unofficial docks, USB-C cables) and we have no details or full list of things that can completely destroy everything.

People have over a year of saves that are often completely unrecoverable because the Switch masqueraded as a true USB-C device. Now Switches are breaking because the peripherals people attach assume the Switch…does what it implies. That it works with USB-C and is a USB-C compliant device. The Switch is actually just a Nintendo device with a port shaped like USB-C.

I love Nintendo and have forever and risked my health and safety to purchase this product on launch and will play Nintendo until I die but YIKES

Switches have been bricking widespread for the past few days. Prevent this by ONLY charging using the Nintendo official charger, and ONLY docking using the official Switch dock.

Warn folks you know before it is too late.

(via sheperdhawke)