{"id":87352,"date":"2026-08-10T12:03:44","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T16:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=87352"},"modified":"2026-08-10T12:44:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T16:44:13","slug":"this-switch-game-you-might-have-bought-is-now-totally-unplayable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=87352","title":{"rendered":"This Switch Game You Might Have Bought Is Now Totally Unplayable"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Nintendo Switch version of Aliens: Fireteam Elite is now completely removed from sale and impossible to play for people who bought it. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Developer Cold Iron Studios announced earlier this year that Fireteam Elite, a game that runs in the cloud and not locally, would be shut down on August 5, and now that day has come. The game was delisted on the Switch&#8217;s eShop earlier this year, along with other digital platforms. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, the game remains playable on other platforms in an offline state. Because the Switch version is streamed over the cloud, it&#8217;s now totally unplayable.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fireteam Elite originally launched in August 2021 on PlayStation, Xbox, and PC, before coming to Switch in April 2013 via the cloud. A sequel, Fireteam Elite 2, is coming this August on PlayStation, Xbox, and PC, with the Switch 2 edition arriving later in the year. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These kinds of issues, along with physical media going away, has prompted anger and frustration from fans, along with concerns about game preservation. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cloud gaming has been around for years, in various stages, and Take-Two boss Strauss Zelnick recently said he expects adoption to continue to grow. During an earnings call recently,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nintendo Switch version of Aliens: Fireteam Elite is now completely removed from sale and impossible to play for people who bought it. Developer Cold Iron Studios announced earlier this year that Fireteam Elite, a game that runs in the cloud and not locally, would be shut down on August 5, and now that day&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":87354,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87352"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87352"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87355,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87352\/revisions\/87355"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/87354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}