I jailbroke my Switch last year when they went after Yuzu because fuck Nintendo. It’s a launch model, so no soldering or external hardware besides a jig was required. If it were a newer model I wouldn’t have gone through the trouble, but it’s been great not having to give Nintendo any money to play Switch games as well as to be able to run homebrew and emulators. I think I’m going to go with a Steam Deck rather than a Switch 2 - I’ll miss the exclusives, but $400+ for an underpowered console is just too much to be worth it any more, and I’ve gotten used to being able to just load on whatever games I want.

I hacked my Switch right after Nintendo pulled that Yuzu BS, so it’s been jailbroken for one year now and the last time I gave any money to Nintendo was in May 2023 for Tears of the Kingdom. I recently updated it to the newest firmware in preparation for Xenoblade Chronicles X this month. No updated emulators? No problem!