It’s a much younger reality than videogames themselves, though. That’s the point. Especially for console games. Sure, patches have been a thing since even 360 days, but games outright not functioning without updates is much newer as any kind of norm.
This sounds more like a bug to me, not deliberate manipulation by nintendo. But the fact that it can even happen by accident is very dissapointing
Games can have bugs crashing them on startup or any point of gameplay too. That’s just reality
It’s a much younger reality than videogames themselves, though. That’s the point. Especially for console games. Sure, patches have been a thing since even 360 days, but games outright not functioning without updates is much newer as any kind of norm.
It’s basically a new console. Consoles that have backwards compatibility used to have updates in such case sometimes.