Disagree. The market will not decide on that, at least for the nintendo product. Your or your kid want the switch and the pokemon and mario and others game, you're buying the switch, you don't switch to something else because the something else allows battery switch.

That's Nintendo's entire business model and the reason why they've been thriving since for ever in gaming and even the bad times where actually positive cash flow wise. They're not losing a single sale because the battery cannot be replaced, unless that sale was far from guaranteed to begin win.

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Waterluvian 2 hours ago | parent [-]

I don't think customers need to be protected from themselves. If they don't like the hardware but buy it anyways because they really like the game, that's a choice. And I feel that when we're dealing with luxury goods, we should give consumers very broad discretion to vote with their money.

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jackb4040 an hour ago | parent | next [-]

"Vote with money" is such a funny talking point in this discussion. It's a metaphor for actual voting, with votes, which the people already did, for politicians who are now protecting their interests. You just don't like corporations being told what to do.

	▲	johnnyanmac 34 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		"Vote with your wallet" in a K shaped economy simply becomes the slogan of modern feudalism. Funnily enough, these regulations were made by policy makers who were voted in with votes, and put such a regulation to its own vote. It's the most democratic way to approach this.

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Zambyte 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

This is victim blaming. The customer is not the one deciding make the batteries non-removable. This is protection from Nintendo.

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Waterluvian 2 hours ago | parent [-]

I just don't need a government to declare that I'm a victim by treating me like I'm not capable of saying, "no, the Switch 2 isn't cutting it for the pricetag. I'll skip this gen's Pokemon." This isn't bread. It's a luxury good.

	▲	ToucanLoucan 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Yes but eliminating unnecessary e-waste is a good thing for everyone. This isn't about the government being your nanny, it's about the government, long term, building a better more sustainable society for everyone, as it should be doing. And I don't think there's a reasonable objection to that.