Will the Switch 2 be Nintendo's first unhackable console?

[LoggerMan]

There's too much glory in hacking Nintendo consoles. It's just a matter of time.

 

[fast0eddy]

No the xbox one was first

The Xbox one actually was hacked, but there was a very slim period where this was possible. It was a fault of Xbox and they have since removed the app that allowed it to be hacked and updated/secured the software. Even if you had the proper update on your Xbox you can't download the CMD app to put in the hack anymore anyways. But as has been stated by many people, the Xbox one hasn't been hacked because they have dev mode so there's really no point other than doing it for piracy.

 

[TheZander]

anybody hear about this team? i think they are actually legit

 

[MrVtR]

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anybody hear about this team? i think they are actually legit

68% progress in a month? It seems like a scam to me.
Also, fundraising? Until a PoC is shown, one more reason to sound like a scam to me.

 

[retr0id]

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anybody hear about this team? i think they are actually legit

link?

(looks like AI slop btw)

 

[CMDreamer]

If there's interest, it'll get hacked at some point.

When? Time will tell.

Post automatically merged: Jun 23, 2025

If there's interest, it'll get hacked at some point.

When? Time will tell.

Auto-doublepost, not my fault. I'll leave it as is.

 

[poughstings]

link?

(looks like AI slop btw)

@TheZander probably generated the image himself

 

[CMDreamer]

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anybody hear about this team? i think they are actually legit

As legit as Trumpet's "intelligence"... so, no.

 

[Deleted member 754542]

If the Switch 2 does get hacked there is also the question of when. If it takes a decade then when hacks finally come out I'll think to myself "well better late than never but I won't actually use this".

 

[mrgone]

68% progress in a month? It seems like a scam to me.
Also, fundraising? Until a PoC is shown, one more reason to sound like a scam to me.

they had units for teardown in April 2025 ?
i agree with the scam!

 

[TheZander]

link?

(looks like AI slop btw)

That what's it was. Ai slop joke.

 

[Gbasam64]

That what's it was. Ai slop joke.

People have always shown stuff before before asking for donations.

 

[mad_dog]

The Switch is already extremely secure. It's only known vulnerability is voltage fault injection. It's safe to assume Nintendo will require Nvidia to secure their Switch 2 chip against this. Nintendo is porting Horizon OS to the Switch 2.
How might the Switch 2 get hacked? Nintendo made some mistakes porting Horizon. Another form of fault injection is used. Nvidia has more security flaws in their chips. A yet undiscovered security glitch.
I'm buying a launch Switch 2 and keeping it locked down for a few years but am taking a risk by doing so. It may end up remaining unhackable and just lose resale value after the hypothetical Switch 2 OLED comes out.

Unless there's a leak of encryption keys, I'd bet on hadware mod.
As said here before, there is so much passion and glory in hacking Ninty console (best point), that this will happen.
For me, this console will be hacked.

 

[DemoN_AleX]

The only real data collection through analysis and reverse engineering is provided by SciresM, Hexkyz and Co. on the switch2brew site.

 

[maraxion]

I truly think the community wil find a way to hack and even softmod the switch 2 given some time.
It might however be like the switch 1 that only earlier models can be softmodded.

What would also be interesting if they are able to remove the ban that keep happening for people with mig cartridges. At least for long enough to be able to change the Nintendo user, because as of now you cannot reset the device, log out of the account or go online.

Personally I don't need online play and could use a bricked switch 2 as long as I can load and play my games offline.

 

[retr0id]

The only real data collection through analysis and reverse engineering is provided by SciresM, Hexkyz and Co. on the switch2brew site.

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Why would you say this (correct statement!) and then go on to link a "source" that is not that at all? Those SwitchTools posts are just switch2brew articles ran through ChatGPT.

 

[DemoN_AleX]

Why would you say this (correct statement!) and then go on to link a "source" that is not that at all? Those SwitchTools posts are just switch2brew articles ran through ChatGPT.

Changed my post. Thanks for pointing that out. Didn't realize this channel was very sloppy, but that's how I found out about the Switchbrew site in the first place. I thought this served as a good summary of the initial realization of how the boot parts are segmented in the Switch 2.

 

[Gbasam64]

I truly think the community wil find a way to hack and even softmod the switch 2 given some time.
It might however be like the switch 1 that only earlier models can be softmodded.

What would also be interesting if they are able to remove the ban that keep happening for people with mig cartridges. At least for long enough to be able to change the Nintendo user, because as of now you cannot reset the device, log out of the account or go online.

Personally I don't need online play and could use a bricked switch 2 as long as I can load and play my games offline.

People in the know say even a hardmod will be very difficult, so softmod is basically never going to happen. But I would still like to believe.

 

[WiiWare_lover]

One time u will be able to hack it tho u get banned. Basically the same as the Wii mini tho they didn't do anything against hacking for wii mini.

 

[CYYAN]

How do you even approach a hack on a security chip that has hardware and software mitigations on pretty much all conventional attacks?

It will probably be like Xbox One, where we still can't do most of the things we'd like to.