[STEAM] Nintendo warns that it can brick Switch consoles if it detects hacking, piracy

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Switch and Switch 2 users who try to hack their consoles or play pirated copies of games may find their devices rendered completely inoperable by Nintendo. That new warning was buried in a recent update to the Nintendo User Account Agreement, as

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adds new language concerning the specific ways users are allowed to use "Nintendo Account Services" on the console, a term defined here to encompass the use of "video games and add-on content." Under the new EULA, any unlicensed use of the system not authorized by Nintendo could lead the company to "render the Nintendo Account Services and/or the applicable Nintendo device permanently unusable in whole or in part." (Emphasis added.)

That language would apply to both the current Switch and the upcoming Switch 2.

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