The thread is away from its origin. Nintendo can ban you if you break their TOS. You can’t illegally modify your switch, except you turn it into a bomb or something similar, it’s yours. Nintendo should choose wisely if they really want to ban every modified device. They could loose many customers who gladly want to pay games/services and want to use their system as they wish. Piracy isn’t really a big problem. You can bet we kids in the 90s were much more abusive in these terms.
So what, just allow people to stral games and chest online? Whilst screwing over the paying community, that wants a cheat free online. The fact is the community that hacks there systems is extremely small, Nintendo can ban them all and be just fine.
Besides, they are only banning online play. So what is the issue? Unless you want to chest online, then there's really no reason to complain.
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But he's at least half right. It's not logged during RCM boot. It just can't be.
He is zero right, you think Windows doesn't store errors for BSODs before you are logged in? It does.
You think the bios, doesn't register Blue Screens from unstable overclocks before you even see the windows loading screen? It does.
They don't know you physically shorted out the pins, they don't care, the system does report that the system was booted into RCM, and then sends that Info to Nintendo. Along with any other errors you may get.
Want to not send that in? Then don't enable online on your switch. You are not going to stop it from calling home, and your not going to stop it from reporting logs to home.
They may find a way to delete those errors before you go online, we will have to see.
That said, tey are using a very similar system to PS4, which to this day, CANNOT GO ONLINE, once jailbroken.
Online service is all the proof you need. They cannot allow modified consoles to cheat in games, when users are paying a fee. They will shut you down, just like PS4 has done all these years. This isnt a 3DS, they are not messing around this time.
Fornite is coming to Switch, Smash is shooting for mass sales and ranked play, as is Splatoon. Nintendo wants ESports, and they won't get it with hackers.