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Nintendo bans Switch 2 owner after they played used Switch 1 games — decision eventually reversed after proving ‘innocence’ (www.tomshardware.com)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They shouldn't be "going after" any game sales. All they are going to do is punish legitimate customers while the ones ACTUALLY stealing/pirating are going to sail free.

You really think a grandma that gets some games from a garage sale for their grandson or granddaughter is going to be happy when a game happens to be a pirated copy and bricks their device?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

But they aren’t going after used games sales. They are going after piracy. This used card just so happened to be the exact one ripped and uploaded to a piracy site, so on Nintendo’s end it looks like they are using a Mig flash device to play a game backup. So it’s not an attack on anybody for buying used games but a very unlikely and unfortunate incident that was solved with a phone call. If grandma happens to pick up a copy of a previously ripped game at a garage sale (amusing to imagine the guy who ripped it holding one of those in the year 2025 but possible) then a polite phone call explaining that situation would have also likely worked because I’m sure Nintendo wants to avoid the shit show of actually permanently banning innocent people.

Again, I’d prefer that Nintendo just relax on all of this but I’m not going to get all mad about it. Even the user who it happened to is less angry than some of you and said customer service was very fast and friendly about helping him. It will never ever happen to anyone in this thread or anybody that we know and even if it did it will be sorted out. I’ll save my outrage for things that are actually outrageous.