And Nintendo JP says that “Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Switch 2 cannot be remotely located, their users remotely identified nor disabled over the Internet” (tweet in Japanese warning people against accidentally losing or getting their consoles stolen over summer vacation)

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But I bet it is more like “Nintendo won’t disable them remotely even if people report ones stolen to them with serial numbers and police reports”, but they’ll happily do so if they caught you using the console in an unapproved manner in their eyes.

[–] Flatworm7591@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Please replace the Twitter link with an archive link or screenshot. We don't allow direct Twitter links on our instance. Thanks.

[–] 1Fuji2Taka3Nasubi@lemmy.zip 12 points 4 days ago

Sorry, done.

[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 14 points 4 days ago

Solution: add a pirated gamecard that only activates when it receives a custom signal. If your switch get stolen, just send the signal for the card to activate, which then would cause nintendo to brick it.

[–] Moonrise2473@feddit.it 6 points 4 days ago

This is by definition "we are just assholes"

Someone play for 5 minutes with a mig switch a legit dump of their own, legally purchased game, just for convenience, to have multiple games on the same cart? The console is now almost useless. You can't play any digital games that you purchased with real money, and physical games can't get any update. Game requires a 20gb day one patch to be playable? Though luck buddy, go to buy a new console!

They stole your console? Oh no! Yes, we absolutely could do the same, as it's bound to your Nintendo account and we could add a button "report as stolen and ban it from internet" in your profile. But we won't, go to buy a new console!