- Nintendo Switch 2 users report console online ban due to the use of me -flash tool
- The tool allows players to back up legally purchased games
- It raises the question of console and gaming ownership in the midst of industry shifts away from physical game copies
The structure of the Nintendo Switch 2’s launch was shrouded in controversy due to the price of the handheld console and its $ 80 first-party games and it has now gone a step further in the wake of its arrival.
As highlighted by Toms Hardware, Nintendo Switch 2 users reports Console Banning Console Due to the Use of Me -Flash, a tool used to allow players to back up legally purchased games that are important to keep more game copies on a single switch cartridge.
Before launching, Nintendo essentially suggested through the user agreement that it can ‘brick’ Switch 2 devices that are courageous. The agreement warns users: “Nintendo can provide Nintendo account services and/or the applicable Nintendo device permanently useless in all or partial or partial”. Based on user reports, “partial” seems to be the case, it is no longer available to access all online services online services.
This means that multiplayer and access to eShop to buy digital games (both basic items to use a switch 2) are gone, making the console an offline-only brick. It is a very similar measure like Sony that exerts account bans for players caught jailbreaking or Modding PlayStation systems – The only difference with Switch 2 is that users say they are not using pirated rums, but rather legal dumps of purchased games.
This also adds the controversy that gamers lose ownership of games completely; Physical copies of games fall away slowly and players can get their games stripped away from them at any time, although piracy is not involved, as Nintendo has just shown.
Analysis: Do you really own your Nintendo Switch 2 at this time?
While I have calculated Sony and Microsoft about this with their PlayStation and Xbox consoles, the Nintendo Switch 2 case is absurd to me.
Piratkopying is real and I realize Nintendo is trying to stamp it out of its switch -ecosystem, but when measures also affect those who use legal gaming backups, it raises the question: Do you do really Not your switch 2 handheld console?
The simple answer is no, because if you have purchased hardware for $ 449.99 / £ 395.99 / AU $ 699.99 or any price for that matter and you can no longer access online services or be limited (especially when you haven’t done anything illegal), you don’t have full ownership.
It is almost The equivalent of buying a game -PC and using an ASUS or MSI bottom card and having it walled because the seller didn’t like what you did with the system. Yes, I know you can have steam, epic games or battle.net -ban, but the chances of it happening are slim and you can easily create a new account.
With Switch 2, the prohibition announcement states: “The use of online services on this console is currently limited by Nintendo,” which effectively means even if you create a new account, you still cannot use online services on the same device. It not only affects owners, but it also destroys the value of resale. It adds the collection of Nintendo’s anti-consumer and I expect it to continue for a long time.
