- Nintendo Switch 2 Users report online console prohibitions due to the use of the Mink Flash tool
- The tool allows players to back up the legally bought games.
- It raises the issue of the property of the console and the game in the midst of the change of the copies industry of the physical game
The accumulation of the Nintendo Switch 2 launch was involved in controversy, due to the price of the portable console and its first part of $ 80, and now it has gone a step beyond its arrival.
As highlighted by Tom hardware, Nintendo Switch 2 users report boxes of online console prohibitions due to the use of the Flash MIG, a tool used to allow players to back up the legally purchased games, essential to keep multiple copies of the game in a single switch cartridge.
Before the launch, Nintendo essentially suggested through the user agreement, can ‘Brick’ change 2 devices that have been modified. The agreement warns of users: “Nintendo can make the Nintendo account services and/or the applicable Nintendo device permanently useless or partly.” According to users’ reports, “in part” seems to be the case, since accessible access to all online services for prohibited users is no longer accessible.
This means that the multiplayer mode and access to ESHOP to buy digital games (both foundations to use a switch 2) have gone, which makes the console a brick only offline. It is a measure very similar to the prohibitions of the Sony exercise account to the players trapped in Jailbreak or modifying the PlayStation systems: the only difference with the 2 Switch 2 is that users indicate that they are not using pirated ROM, but legal landfills of purchased games.
This adds to the controversy of the players who lose ownership of the games completely; The physical copies of the games are slowly fading, and players can take away their games at any time, even if the piracy is not involved, as Nintendo has just shown.
ANALYSIS: Are you really owned by your Nintendo Switch 2 at this time?
Although I have rebuked Sony and Microsoft about this with their PlayStation and Xbox consoles, respectively, the Nintendo Switch 2 case is absurd to me.
Piracy is real, and I am aware that Nintendo is trying to eliminate it from its switch ecosystem, but when the measures also affect those who use legal games of legal games, ask the question: you? In fact Do you have your Switch 2 hand console?
The simple answer is no, because if you have bought hardware at $ 449.99 / £ 395.99 / AU $ 699.99 or any price for the case, and you can no longer access online or be restricted services (especially when you have not done anything illegal), then it does not have full property.
Is almost The equivalent of buying a PC for games and using an ASUS or MSI motherboard, and make it block because the supplier did not like what he did with the system. Yes, I know you can have Steam, Epic Games or Battle.net Bans, but the chances of that is scarce, and you can easily make a new account.
With Switch 2, the prohibition message establishes: “The use of online services in this console is currently restricted by Nintendo”, which effectively means, even if you create a new account, you still cannot use online services on the same device. That not only affects the owners, but also ruins the value of reselling. It adds to the Nintendo anticonsumerism collection, and I hope it continues for a long time.
