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PC Gamer
|August 2025
NINTENDO can brick your Switch; I've never been happier to be a PC gamer
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Nintendo has changed its online user agreement in multiple consumer-unfriendly ways just before the launch of the Switch 2. Chief among them: Nintendo asserts the right to render your console “permanently unusable” if it determines you're in violation of the agreement.
No game or hardware modding, no extracting ROMs — something Nintendo asserts we cannot do, even though it is a legally protected consumer right in some countries — and no dual booting to another OS.
I’m getting a clear message: you spent £400 on this hardware, but Nintendo does not think you own it.
This story is from the August 2025 edition of PC Gamer.
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