And all over 100m sold, each with a billion or close to a billion in software

Im sure its not going to be a huge problem. Piracy has been reducing for years now and i don t see a lot of people taking advantage of this.

The EU did a major study on pirating and then (apparently) tried to bury it because they did not like the conclusions, Basically that with the exception of Top-Tier Films, pirating did not harm sales much, and in fact the study suggested piracy might actually increases video game sales. The margin for error on the study is huge, so I don't think it's the final word on the subject, but I agree with the idea that pirating is a bigger issue for Hollywood blockbuster movies than it is for video games.

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2017-09-25-eu-commission-no-evidence-that-piracy-affects-video-games-sales

Talk to the music industry if you don't think piracy hurts. 

Nintendo spent money to run a campaign (backed by numerous developers) to legally ban R4. And there are things you can do about pirates: you can just not be one, and you can report it where you see it.

You can only buy R4 in certain regions, and it is banned in several regions. And money made on consoles isn't made on the console itself, it's made from licensing rights on games sold for that platform. Sure, they got the $50-something dollars from selling the unit, but that unit was supposed to carry with it a certain number of game sales. And when it doesn't, that drops their GP%, giving an impression of Switch gamers not actually buying games and contributing to the idea of not developing games for it. It's currently a ludicrous thought, but enough piracy will drive down the desire of producers to fund games on the platform. Everyone loses in piracy. And PSP is actually a great example: it has the third lowest tracked attach ratio on VGChartz.

And yeah, there probably won't be one like R4. If we see one, it'll be more akin to what Sony did to the guy that cracked the PS3. As far as "getting my knickers in a bunch", having a platform like the Switch cracked in this way is only a bad thing. Piracy is only months away from running rampant on the first thing Nintendo has found to work  really well since 2007.

Also, are you not going to defend the "wasn't going to buy it anyway" rhetoric? Or do you already know it's bogus?

cant wait to get so many back-up saves, amirite guys?

The music industry's problem was 1) failing to embrace new technology / audio formats (sales of MP3 players took off in the early 2000s), and 2) charging consumers as much as $18 for CDs in retail stores when all people wanted was one or two songs on the whole album.

Plus, PCs in the early 00s allowed for affordable ways to rip and burn audio CDs and store thousands upon thousands of audio files, something that was impossible for the average consumer during the days of vinyl, cassettes and the first wave of CDs in the late 80s-mid 90s.

Napster and similar P2P networks were just the straw that broke the camel's back when it came to the music industry and the RIAA.

So what you're saying is piracy had an effect on the music industry. Got it.

Neat. Time to buy a switch then. Looks promising.  Not for piracy but since it's able to boot a Linux into it, maybe android in the future?

lol, why would I claim my claim is bogus when you don't have any research that proves against it? Being able to hack hardware increases hardware sales but of course, it often means they're not going to buy the software. Just like with PSP, it blew up once it was found that you could hack it, not because consumers were foaming at the mouth to buy PSP software. They're not software consumers that would have benefited Nintendo's bottom line. 

Developing on any hardware is a gamble, you go in knowing at any time the platform could be hacked. Hell, PC developers have to live with this reality every day, it doesn't stop them from releasing games. There are people who will buy the game and those who won't or can't, you can't change their mind, we're not the Nintendo Super Sentai Power Cops, we can't enforce those consumers to do anything. There is a huge subset of gamers that won't purchase even 1 game, but if they can pirate it and they have the desire to pirate it, they most likely weren't going to buy it or aren't loyal customers to the hardware manufacturer. 

Piracy hasn't ruined Nintendo in the past, 3rd party developers still develop on Nintendo hardware, hacked or not. PS4 has been hacked, doesn't mean developers are going to stop developing games on it, it's  a hugely successful platform with tons of customers willing to pay for their games. Using that "Developers are scared" thing is bogus, they've had to deal with this for decades, it's nothing new. And really, reporting pirates? These people aren't running a torrent site, they're pirates who play free games. How are you going to report them? Ask them if they're playing a pirated version of Mario Odyssey and if they say yes, then call the cops? Again, you waste your time trying to stop or protest pirating or hacking, it is going to happen.All you can do is not be one and mind your own business, hypothetically speaking. 

And yeah, the Wii was hacked and people were pirating games...still Nintendo saw record software sales, same with the DS. And again, no, Nintendo won't do what they did to the "PS3 guy" because this is a hardware level hack! It's nobody's fault but Nintendo and Nvidia's They can take down rom hosting sites, but not people who want to void their own warranty by messing around with pins in the Joycon.