Switch hacked: unpatchable exploit is a security nightmare for Nintendo

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Ljink96 said:
It's not a nightmare for Nintendo. Those who might pirate, assuming we even get to running back ups soon, will pirate anyways. They're not consumers for Nintendo. I don't think this will become mainstream because of course you still have to do some shoddy tomfoolery with the pins, it's not like a bannerbomb for Wii (not yet anyway) and a lot of future games from Nintendo will most likely require internet to get the most out of them. You're not pirating Splatoon 2 and playing online anytime soon, same goes for Smash, etc.

I think this will be best for homebrew apps like emulators, and backing up saves. The same things that have been happening since the GBA. Switch will continue to be a success and software sales will perform well as usual. I'm sure I don't speak for the majority of Switch's marketshare/userbase but I don't see even 1 million switch owners using this particular method in the future. Once it becomes, put your SD card in with a file and go to the web browser or something similar to that, this won't be a huge issue. But I guess it's inevitable for 16-18 Million devices. Nintendo best just get the revisions out ASAP.

Basically this.The number of people that will get the trouble to pirate games will be minimal, due to a number of issues(the effort you have to put in to do it, the initial investment(300 dollars), and so on), and pirating never stopped devices like the PS2 and the PSP to be highly successful.

Honestly, unless the method of pirating is as easy as the previous examples I gave, pirating on the Switch will be hard for the overall market.Unless you can sell pirated games like in those generations, where you just went to a store and bought a brand new game that just released for 5 dollars and just had to pop in the system, this will be a non issue.Much like the very purpose of the console is to be easy to use compared to more complicated gaming devices like PCs in which you may need to solve problems that may occasionally appear, the mass market wont pirate something that you need to mess with the hardwware itself.Plus there is online and all that you wont be able to paly with if you pirate.