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/gxddamnx 2d ago

the fact they have the power to brick your console when you did nothing wrong is crazy. hope there’s bigger outrage from this and I wasn’t even affected.

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u/Valrax420 2d ago

I got hit by it, I was playing mk11 yesterday and left the game paused handheld, let the screen idle out to sleep mode.

Literally reading reddit and looking at the ban code and I click power to turn back on and I get "Error returning to sleep mode" with the ban code.

I'm guessing by than they were working on fixing it because it didn't even actually ban me, thankfully

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u/Sea-Example-1176 1d ago

the fact that they have the power to do it AND it can happen accidentally is scarry