SMRTR TechMay 11, 2025Engadget

Nintendo grants itself the power to brick Switches with pirated games

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Nintendo's updated User Agreement now permits bricking Switch consoles with pirated games or mods, banning circumvention of protections and threatening to make violating devices "permanently unusable," aligning with their recent actions against emulators.

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