The CFW is not free but is available to people who have another way to run payloads. Authorized distributors handle consumer sales for TX.
Interesting news. They're banking on the OS selling more..
The combination of the two is flabbergasting to me.
The dongle/jig combo is how most people will run CFW in the future. TX has an interesting dongle and is price competitive with it - but seemingly couldnt protect it and are afraid of clones.
So instead of selling hardware, they decide to DRM lockdown their CFW and sell that instead - into a market that they believe will be fragmented by people using PCs, smartphones and clone dongles.
Why. If the dongle/jig is a "every coldboot cycle" thing their dongle solutions seemed attractive to everyone - even people in here that already had used f-g another way.
If their dongle/jig just gets used once - all of a sudden we are faced with a modchip company putting DRMed code onto our switches - but telling us, that we "still could load anything". Now - what about OFW update cycles - what about the risk of not being able to apply the blob after the next OFW, what about the "firmware race" against Nintendo (they will try to prevent TX to reverse their firmware, they might update more often...), how will they apply CFW updates...
The idea, that TX would venture into the "DRM protected" CFW business doesnt seem like a really great idea at first glance...
So they must really think, that there is no margin in selling the dongle/jig and CFW (but not protected) bundle. They'd rather have users go from one DRMed ecosystem into another one (Nintendo > TX).
Huh... Thats a first..
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