Comment on Nintendo warns that it can brick Switch consoles if it detects hacking, piracy
endeavor@sopuli.xyz 4 days agoWe should make noise about it and enforce regulations that ban practises that do not allow people to own the things they own. We don’t want to end up like america.
Dreaming_Novaling@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
If you hack your console and put it on the internet, don’t be surprised that you’re bricked. Do I think it’s a little extreme to brick a Switch that hasn’t even joined an online game? Yes, that does suck, but realistically any game company is not going to knowingly let you use a device that is hacked. Once again, if it’s just an account brick, then who cares, make a new one (why would you hack with your main account?). Hardware bricks are pretty shitty, but there’s no way you could fight that in court (I deserve the right to hack my console and get free games?).
Once they stop making updates, you’ll own the switch anyway, as then they don’t give a fuck/can’t do shit about hackers. I’ve hacked my WiiU and several 3DS because there are no more new updates to ever brick them, they’re obsolete/abandoned consoles.