DO NOT buy a Nintendo Switch 2!
- Tuesday, May 20 2025 @ 08:04 AM PDT
- Contributed by: Jeff Rivett (site admin)
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Nintendo is once again pushing hard to retain its status as the least consumer-friendly gaming company on Earth.
I've written about their overly-aggressive lawyers and hideously misguided policies before on this site, but this time I'm explicitly recommending that NOBODY purchase a Nintendo Switch 2 when it's released in the coming weeks.
And why am I going that far? Because Nintendo will brick (i.e. render unusable) your expensive toy remotely if you dare to do anything on a long list of things that tinkerers, hobbyists, and gamers are legally allowed to do with hardware they own.
The list of prohibited activities includes the usual stuff, such as circumventing its anti-piracy protections and pirating its games. Those are bad enough. But then there’s this: you cannot publish, copy, modify, reverse engineer, lease, rent, decompile, disassemble, distribute, offer for sale, or create derivative works of any portion of the Nintendo Account Services.
And again, your punishment if you dare to tinker in any way with your property is for your device to be bricked by Nintendo.
Dear Nintendo: I hope some day you realize that letting lawyers run the company is extremely destructive to consumer good-will. I for one will never, ever even consider purchasing anything made by Nintendo.