Technically, it's the banks fault If I rob them, because why can't they just give us all the money we want this is stupid !!11 /s
If the bank stole your money first and you rob them to get back what was yours I would agree with sarcastic you, otherwise it’s not a fair comparison.
a fairer comparison would be you sell me a house, but when I go to move in I find you never moved out, while you'll let me go into some rooms your holding the keys and are barring access to others and have no intentions of moving out ever, all the while I have no recourse.
the reason companies can get away with this is to many law makers are too out of touch or corrupted by lobbyists to understand and since your average Joe can't withstand the costs of a legal battle war of attrition Nintendo,Sony M$ , Apple and basically every electronics company in the modern era gets away with the crime.
now just because they stole your access wouldn't give you the legal right to break the law to re-claim it but as I stated above I can understand the mentality and agree with it on a moral level despite the laws not catching up to it.
we pay for hardware, it’s supposed to be ours to do with what we please, artificially stealing our legally purchased access is if nothing else immoral, answering immorality with further immorality to offset the initial injustice doesn’t make you the most virtuous but it’s understandable.
it makes sense they can bar a modified console from the online service, that’s theirs they can write whatever terms and conditions they want and if we agree to them when we join it’s like a IRL membership club we’ve agreed to terms.
If we break a contract we agree to we should be able to lose access to there privately owned walled garden.
I'd be worried tho if I was him, normally these things get checked by Nintendo and if he left his credentials he'll probably have to pay it back maybe. Idk about Walmarts tho. Maybe they dont care.
Who knows, the unknown would be one of the main reasons I wouldn’t think of doing it.
I know in the case of Best Buy and Amazon they often sell returned electronics as pallets on auction sites etc. heck one of Best Buy subsidiaries is one of those auction sites.
it’s even spawned a cottage industry of small businesses that buy sell electronics to repair them legitimately as well as YouTube channels that are actually quite fun to watch
But I digress, I know most big box retailers are supposed to dispose of an item or return it to the manufacturer, The reason some sell it as bulk e-waste is it then becomes a new revenue stream rather than throwing it out plus they get the good press of not being the one to throw the item in the landfill if that ends up being its final destination.
none of them are supposed to sell it as open box but we do hear stories of that happening occasionally so policy isn’t always followed, which just adds additional unknowns.
The problem the poster would run into hypothetically is Nintendo would have to be the one that would come after him, technically they would need to get a court order to get the company to release his private information to them even if they took it down because Walmart isn’t supposed to open the console and if it won’t turn on there’s no way for them to verify the serial number any other way .
probably not worth the headache for a lot of people which is why it probably is such a fringe minority that would do such a thing, for every random news story you hear of a fraud ring getting caught there’s probably hundreds of thousands of people that do it as a one off kind of scenario like the OP