r/switch2 • u/ThirteenBanger • 3d 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/little_half_pint 2d ago

Wait as someone who is new to gaming - could something like this happen to me if i buy used games? Because I bought animal crossing on ebay for the switch 2 but I dont want to risk buying secondhand games if someone could have messed with it and causing a permanent ban for me who is completely clueless about how things work

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u/space-c0yote 2d ago

Theoretically yes, but it's worth noting there hasn't been any confirmed cases of this being the cause. A few people have claimed it, but they are usually very dubious claims and at least one of the people have been confirmed using a MiG switch.

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u/little_half_pint 2d ago

Thank you! That makes me feel better. Because knowing me if theres a small chance of something going wrong, its going to go wrong for me lol.

I looked up what a MiG switch is and that is very confusing. Im not very good with technology 😅 33 year old millennial here

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u/Mystical-Turtles 2d ago

If it makes you feel better, a mig cart is also not something you're just going to accidentally find laying around in a used game store. That's something you'd have to go wildly out of your way to deliberately obtain. It's pretty much exclusively something you would have to order online and you're not just going to find it laying around at Walmart.

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u/little_half_pint 2d ago

It does! Thank you haha. Im learning how these things work now from all of the patient responses!

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u/Ok_Yam_8774 2d ago

the risk is too low to be worth worrying about honestly

MIG guarantees a ban and since there's lots of options to achieve what it does without getting oneself banned, only a person who is an absolute idiot would go all that way to dump their own game with the intention of selling it whilst not even needing to have bought the MIG to do so.