{"id":87369,"date":"2026-08-10T11:58:25","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T15:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=87369"},"modified":"2026-08-10T14:43:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T18:43:10","slug":"aliens-fireteam-elite-on-nintendo-switch-shut-down-with-no-refunds-as-owners-become-the-latest-victims-of-gamings-increasingly-digital-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=87369","title":{"rendered":"Aliens: Fireteam Elite on Nintendo Switch Shut Down With No Refunds, as Owners Become the Latest Victims of Gaming&#8217;s Increasingly Digital Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<section data-transform=\"mobile-ad-break\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/games\/aliens-fireteam-elite\">Aliens: Fireteam Elite<\/a> has had its cloud servers shut down, leaving Nintendo Switch owners unable to play the game without any form of refund. <\/p>\n<p>While this shutdown does not come as a surprise \u2014 owners were informed of the servers&#8217; impending closure earlier this year \u2014 the loss of another digital service is sparking headlines in the wake of PlayStation&#8217;s recent controversial announcement that it was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/sony-just-killed-discs-physical-disc-production-to-end-january-2028-for-new-games-releasing-on-playstation-consoles\">ending disc production for new PS5 games from January 2028 onwards<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As players discuss the inevitable rise in digital downloads and loss of permanently-playable physical copies, Aliens: Fireteam Elite has become the latest cloud-based Switch game to get switched off, just three years on from its 2023 launch.<\/p>\n<section data-transform=\"slideshow\" data-slug=\"aliens-fireteam-elite-screenshots\" data-value=\"aliens-fireteam-elite-screenshots\" data-type=\"slug\" data-caption=\"\">\n<p>Previously sold for $29.99 or $59.99 for its Ultimate Edition, Aliens: Fireteam Elite follows Square Enix&#8217;s cloud-based Kingdom Hearts Collection into silicon heaven. Kingdom Hearts owners could get a discount when re-buying the games for Switch 2, though there&#8217;s no word on a similar offer for Fireteam Elite. <\/p>\n<p>Indeed, Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2 will soon launch for Nintendo Switch 2 \u2014 and it seems like developer Cold Iron Studios is content for fans to just go buy that at full price instead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aliens: Fireteam Elite has had its cloud servers shut down, leaving Nintendo Switch owners unable to play the game without any form of refund. While this shutdown does not come as a surprise \u2014 owners were informed of the servers&#8217; impending closure earlier this year \u2014 the loss of another digital service is sparking headlines&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":140,"featured_media":87371,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87369","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\/87369"}],"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\/140"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87369"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87373,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87369\/revisions\/87373"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/87371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}