Customer support are undoing these bans quite quickly, so your console won't be permanently bricked if you buy a cartridge from a bad actor, but it still makes resales riskier than ever. Nintendo is taking no prisoners when it comes to piracy with the Switch 2, even if that means catching legitimate players in the crossfire.

You might have to be extra careful who you buy your used Nintendo Switch game cards from if you don't want to get mistakenly banned. A Nintendo Switch 2 owner posted on Reddit that they got banned after downloading patches for a few Switch game cards that were bought off Facebook Marketplace.

Nintendo Switch 2 users have been warned not to get banned for a simple mistake like one Switch 2 user recently did.