Nintendo recently took the decision to ban some Nintendo Switch 2 consoles after they were found to be running MiG Cartridges. The ban means that you can not access any of the Nintendo Switch Online functions on your Nintendo Switch 2 console. One person who thought he was receiving a good deal from a returned console at Walmart came home to find that his purchase had the infamous Error Code 2124-4508, meaning that its online functionality had been blocked. However, to the unknowing eyes at Walmart the returned console seemed fine as it booted up etc. Be very careful purchasing a second hand Nintendo Switch 2 console as it may have been banned from accessing Nintendo’s online services.
Thanks to SonicGalaxy27 for sending in the news tip!
Well i don’t have a bricked console, however i noticed since the last system software update i have a better wifi signal. Previously i had to be near my router for a strong signal, now i can be in another area and still have 3 bars for Wifi.
This has been going on since the original Switch days. You will instantly get banned if you are not careful about EmuNAND vs SysNAND setup. also these MIG carts. Nintendo just forward port the same exact rules to Switch 2.
Good, screw Nintendo such a garbage company.
Awww someone not like having consequences for violating policies
Not being able to access online functionality does not equate to the system being bricked. A console being bricked means it won’t even power on.
If I bought a console for online use, and the online capabilities are neutered, then for all intents and purposes it is bricked by my definition.
I don’t recommend the switch 1 for online use lol
You can’t login to another nintendo account. I saw a video on YouTube of someone’s switch 2 being banned from online and he couldn’t even reset it, and when he found a way to factory reset it he couldn’t even log a different account onto it at all. Therefore it is considered “bricked” because you need online access to do anything with it.
Incorrect. Switch 2 is basically a digital only console. Banning a digital only console is the equivalent of bricking. This has already been proven to be true when Sony tried banning digital only PS5 consoles and lost in court.
It’s not even remotely close to being a “digital only” console.
After a factory reset, you cannot use the console at all until after logging into the nintendo services and downloading a system update, which you cannot do on a banned console.
Incorrect: Digital only refers to not having a CD drive or hardware game slot. Switch 2 has a game slot in order to play hardware games.
So bricked all the way NO. It can still play cartridges offline.
The interesting piece to know is will it still be able to receive firmware updates. Newer games will require a system update to be played.
Disabled online services, yes.
I agree with you, generally, but by eliminating all online access, (which is including the Nintendo games store) on a console where a large percentage of the games are expected to be game key cards rather than physical releases, and in an Era where games are rarely released complete and need to be patched multiple times…
You’re disabling a large chunk of the core functionality, making it “feel like it is essentially bricked”
May not BE actually bricked, but the difference is more or less pedantic at this point.
I feel like the profile that is associated with the MiG cart should be banned, not the console itself. Sucks that these pirates are pawning off their suffering onto unsuspecting buyers.
Pirates can just make another console or literally make a throwaway account
F-ing a-holes (those returning Switch 2). 😑
do you have to be such a simp? the swiitch 2 isnt as top tier as people think it is
Bro rightfully calling out scumbags for returning bricked consoles makes him a simp?
Are you having a schizo episode or something?
‘Digital Only Console’? What a stupid term! That would infer that systems with cartridges and/or optical drives are a mix of digital and analog. The whole damn thing is digital right down to the optical drives. Aside from the power supplies in all types of consoles, there’s nothing analog about it. If they’re referring to consoles that have no media slots/drives and can only play online, then ‘Subscription Based Console’ or ‘Cloud Based Console’ would be a much more appropriate term.
I wouldn’t used those mig cartridges. I really don’t know where people got them.
Piracy, and some ppl who want to back up their games on one card so they don’t have to carry all their games….. But mostly piracy…. Dispite ppl not wanting to admit it …
I don’t believe anyone who says they use it for the “convenience” of not carrying a bunch of cartridges. They’re tiny, and even basic/cheap cases have a little pocket to hold them. I could probably stick 30 or so cartridges in my case. No one is going through the hassle of ripping their own physical cartridges just for that.
And the piracy is understandable in some situations, specifically the ds stuff. Telling me I have to pay upwards of $700 for pokemon soulsilver, screw that.
What I notice above all is that retailers do not check the functioning of a console before reselling it second-hand!
Wow. No warning needed. It’s general knowledge that this was going to happen.
Remember all the people saying it was okay that Nintendo added this to their TOS and everyone said it would only hurt the pirates
This has been added to Switch 1’s TOS. Its not new. They’ve been banning online services since switch 1 2017
This is a ban not a “brick
Incorrect. Banning a digital only console is the equivalent to bricking it. Switch 2 is basically digital only. This has already been settled in court. Sony tried banning digital only PS5 consoles and lost in court. That is why newer PS5 models have the option to add a disc drive.
Source: My Ass
It can be functionally equivalent yes
Bricking it means the Switch won’t turn on at all, and can’t use physical games at all. Banning means not being able to do online services or buying anything else on the store, but yes they will be functionality equivalent. And I know it sucks having no online functionality. And my best wishes to all people too.
F nintendo, this why I haven’t bought anything Nintendo since the 80s. Long live the pirates.
If you purchase a product, You should have the right to be able to do anything you want with the device. As long as you are not going online and cheating with some type of device I believe there are laws in place in the United States that prevents bricking your machine. All it takes is one good class action lawsuit. You can have legally obtained copies loaded onto a card and then they brick your machine. They would be getting a lawsuit from me.
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