We have collectively entered the hell version of our timeline, all hope is lost!
DarkMetatron
The Nintendo Switch is a handheld device, so they should have called it Nintendo Switch Advanced
and what would that change in regards of that law? It would still need a way to implement age verification and I really don't see a way for an open, federated, distributed system like the fediverse to implement it. It is in its core principles incompatible with age verification. I can't see a way for the fediverse to survive this law, not in the EU at least.
Oh and it is not only games. Has anyone a idea how to implement age verification for the fediverse? So have fun here as long as it lasts, because it will all burn under this law!
They will try and try again, even if we could fight it this time.

Markets are a proto-form of capitalism. Producing something for the whole purpose to make a profit at a market is the core of capitalism.
That is dumb degrowther mythology. Growth is not the issue, there a lots of examples that growth and a high living standard can be sustainable.
Decoupling would be the keyword
And what we have now is still leagues better then what they had in 1726.
There is heroic games launcher and Lutris so who needs a official client?
Can you describe one that is better?
Whenever we tried something else in the last 150 years it created a living hell for nearly everyone who was lucky enough to survive. And what we had before that was not paradise either, far away from it.
The problem is not capitalism but unchecked, uncontrolled capitalism.
Yeah I forgot that the US forced China into the culture revolution or Russland into performing Stalinist cleansings or into War communism with its huge famine.