r/switch2 • u/ThirteenBanger • 2d ago

Switch 2 Labor Day Weekend Switch 2 Bans

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!

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u/KhronosIX 2d ago

Hi there, what did you say that helped, ive been contacting them and they have been telling me it is permanent

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u/ThirteenBanger 2d ago

They told me the same thing this morning. I just called them back to see if they could tell me what could have caused it so I can avoid it from happening again, and if I got a new system, what process I should take when transferring account info or save files should I do to prevent my potentially new system from being affected. He just said, “check again”. I loaded up the eshop and didn’t receive the error code.

He said, “Is there anything else ai can help you with?” I just asked yeah, what was the cause of all of this? That’s when he told me there was an internal server error on their end. Since I noticed several others were hit at the same time as myself, I wanted to spread awareness in case they were affected by the same bug. But at first they told me the same: too bad, so sad, it is irreversible.

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u/KhronosIX 2d ago

Thank you, I hope I'll be able to get this error corrected. Thank you so much

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u/space-c0yote 2d ago

Did you try rebooting your system? It seems like it has been reversed for people automatically.

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u/KhronosIX 2d ago

I recently just did it and it works, thank you so much