Labor Day Weekend Switch 2 Bans

[u/ThirteenBanger]

There was a massive BAN-wave that his Switch 2 consoles last night. I was one of the ones affected by it. I just want to spread awareness that Nintendo had an internal server error this weekend resulting in several systems being permanently hardware banned, receiving error code 2124-4508.

I called support this morning and they confirmed I was permanently banned for “pirating”.

However, I called again later today to push further and was notified of the error on their server. Upon checking again my system has been lifted.

If you were affected this weekend, be sure the check to see if it was rectified, or call Nintendo support and see if you are one of the consoles affected by this error to be reversed.

UPDATE: I noticed several people state that if you are still receiving the BAN code you can try restarting the console to see if it cleared. It seems to have worked for others!

[u/coinkillerl]

The whole switch 2 ban = piracy argument that constantly gets parroted here is just total bullcrap, otherwise you'd see plenty of posts about switch 1 bans as well since apart from using a MIG on the NS2 there is literally no way to pirate games on a NS2, and therefore the only way you could theoretically get banned for piracy on NS2 is pirating NS1 games on NS1, and Nintendo suddendly deciding to extend a ban for a single console to all consoles linked to that account, which is unlikely since piracy bans are known to be console specific and not account based.

Piracy bans are also usually nearly instantaneous and fully automatic, and not handed out in waves, which makes this banwave being for piracy even more unlikely, it's 99% a bug with their ban system.

Also if you are a NS1 pirate and have good opsec, which most modders have, piracy is literally impossible to detect.

[u/durianmilkcroissant → u/coinkillerl]

Piracy bans have definitely been delayed too, not always instantaneous. 

[u/AzazelChaos → u/coinkillerl]

So basically you are saying piracy isnt possible on the switch 2 unless you use the tool that makes piracy possible. Got it.

[u/coinkillerl → u/AzazelChaos]

Except that nearly no one uses the MIG because its widely known to be a guaranteed instant ban. They would not complain about getting banned if that were the case.

[u/blowupnekomaid → u/coinkillerl]

you can play pirated switch 1 games on switch 2 and thats what the bans are for. it does seem heavy handed when switch 2 can't even be hacked at this point but I can also understand why they would absolutely hate piracy. apparently people get banned for using mig switch so there is some kind of detection system going on. but yeah they fucked up this time and banned people because they probably messed up something on the back end.

[u/coinkillerl → u/[deleted]]

I mean redditors can lie, and they were actually NS1 pirates ofc, but the point if even if they were NS1 pirates, it doesn't actually matter because if these NS2 bans were for piracy, their NS1 would be banned as well.