Agree, though a system update forcing a game update before you can play an offline game that was working before is very unusual and I can understand some confusion around it.
I wonder if these games with “mandatory” updates do it immediately when you go online even if you haven’t played them in a while? Because the Switch 1 only updated games if they were in the front screen or you manually forced an update.
If they don’t this gets significantly worse - there’s no good way (AFAIK) to track which games on have been updated on the Switch, so keeping your games updated is a massive PITA if you have a big collection as you’re effectively forced to go “Check for updates” one by one from time to time. But at least for the previous console you could always play them without updating so there was no major harm in having your games on an old version.
Misleading / clickbait title. The game just needs an update.
Agree, though a system update forcing a game update before you can play an offline game that was working before is very unusual and I can understand some confusion around it.
I wonder if these games with “mandatory” updates do it immediately when you go online even if you haven’t played them in a while? Because the Switch 1 only updated games if they were in the front screen or you manually forced an update.
If they don’t this gets significantly worse - there’s no good way (AFAIK) to track which games on have been updated on the Switch, so keeping your games updated is a massive PITA if you have a big collection as you’re effectively forced to go “Check for updates” one by one from time to time. But at least for the previous console you could always play them without updating so there was no major harm in having your games on an old version.
Hopefully it’s a rare issue due to Switch 2 / 1 compatibility thing, and we won’t have these issues in future. Agree that it will be a PITA otherwise.
So, the Internet is required before you can play it.
“Completely unplayable offline” is not the same as, “needs an update”, ffs.
I’m no fan of Nintendo, but that’s just sensationalist to the point of being outright lies.
Switch games are not playable if there’s an update in the system, until that update is applied. That requires an Internet connection.
Which is why the headline of the post is marked as “misleading” and not completely removed as false information.
You need an update, which requires internet, but after that, the game is “completely playable offline”.