It seems to be worse than that. Get a second hand console and it maybe already bricked as it looks like they only ban the console not the account. As per the lawsuit.
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vovo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
You pirate one game -> nintendo restricts your console to only play pirated games. Funny
Sonicdemon86@lemmy.world 8 months ago
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
Sony and microsoft have also done that for like a decade+. 2nd hand market was filled to the brim with people selling bricked consoles that couldn’t go online. Walmarts warranty changed over xbox’ because people would but a new 360, swap out the internals with their bricked consoles or broken consoles, and then return the “new” console back to Wal Mart.
Tb0n3@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
No. If you happen to try to fix it by doing a system wipe you play zero games. It’s literally a brick. Can’t do anything.