Nintendo Switch 2 Owner Says Their Console Was Banned After Playing Legitimate Second-Hand Games Another User Had Copied

A Switch 2 proprietor has warned fans to beryllium cautious erstwhile buying second-hand games, aft their console was banned by Nintendo.

Since the Switch 2's launch, reports person surfaced of Nintendo's caller anti-piracy tactics leaving users of the MIG Switch flash instrumentality with 'bricked' consoles — incapable to entree immoderate online functionality, including galore cardinal console features specified arsenic the quality to download and play integer games.

But, amongst this, determination person besides been reports of guiltless fans getting caught successful Nintendo's crossfire — and the latest illustration of this is simply a idiosyncratic who says they received a akin console prohibition for playing morganatic carnal games they had bought second-hand, from a anterior proprietor who had seemingly cloned them.

In a lengthy thread connected reddit, Switch 2 proprietor dmanthey said their console was banned by Nintendo aft loading up a enactment of Switch 1 cartridges they had bought connected Facebook Marketplace. But portion the games were legitimate, they inactive triggered a console ban.

Discussing the substance with Nintendo's lawsuit support, dmanthey realised they had unwittingly played games whose cartridges had antecedently been cloned onto a piracy-enabling instrumentality — specified arsenic a MIG Switch — whose licenses were present marked arsenic pirated.

"Basically, a thief buys/rents a game. They marque a transcript for themselves utilizing the MIG dumper," dmanthey summarised. "They resell the archetypal crippled and support a transcript for themselves connected their MIG. Then some of you get banned erstwhile the Switch 2 goes online. Only 1 of you has the carts, truthful that's the idiosyncratic that volition beryllium unbanned."

Thankfully, dmanthey says that the process of talking to Nintendo was straightforward, and their console was unbanned soon aft providing Nintendo a speech of the seller down the Facebook Marketplace listing, and a verification photograph that showed were successful possession of the morganatic cartridges now.

Seeing Nintendo enactment to unban the idiosyncratic is an absorbing development, aft different users antecedently reported being told that specified bans were permanent.

"The magnitude of info they had is crazy," dmanthey said of his acquisition chatting with Nintendo. "They could spot my ddwrt endpoints, the marque of my representation card, they adjacent knew that I had an EVGA rodent and keyboard plugged into my Switch 2."

While a uncommon concern (for now), dmanthey raised the constituent that this substance volition lone go much communal arsenic much radical acquisition Switch 2 consoles, and much cloned second-hand games participate the utilized crippled market. Indeed, determination has already been the proposition among fans that connection spreading of Nintendo banning Switch 2 consoles volition lone summation the complaint of crippled pirates ditching copies of games they person cloned.

A akin concern came to airy past period erstwhile a Switch 2 proprietor who bought a second-hand console astatine Target recovered the console had already been banned by Nintendo. That idiosyncratic said they wanted to stock their communicative successful bid that others debar a akin scenario.

IGN has antecedently contacted Nintendo to inquire for much item connected the bans, but has not received a response.

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