Also what is the point of this, so close to the Switch 2 launch?
Like the Switch has had its run.

Likely because of the next Nintendo system being b/c with Switch meaning similar architecture.

Probably dont want to risk the same issue.

This is very excessive on Nintendo's part.

Nintendo isn’t ruining their lives. The pirates are ruining their own lives by breaking the law.

Honestly, the legal infrastructure hasn’t been effective enough in combatting piracy. Someone needs to step up and it may as well be the companies (like Nintendo) who have the money to pursue them. Otherwise they’re just going to keep doing it because they don't see any consequences to just taking stuff for free. It undermines all of us who buy our media, and harms the value and income of creators and the industry.

If the legal system would do their job, Nintendo wouldn't need to bank these operations.

If you don't want to get fined/jailed then don't break the law.

If Nintendo has identified 200,000 users on an individual basis, I'm fine with this. But I'm guessing they haven't, in which case this seems like a major overkill: innocent until proven otherwise, and so forth.

That's spamigation for you.

But as rigid as Nintendo has been about copyright since the 1980s (the worst in the industry) they probably aren't going to sue 200,000 people. They want the info on the main distributors in this case.

Film and music recording companies have tried that approach many times in the 2000s but it was never financially or reputationally worth it, and neither did it inhibit copyright infringement (some argue it made it worse, even).

But does Nintendo have to ruin their lives in the process?

Nice. Legal action absolutely should be taken on criminals. That's the only way you stop criminal activity. You don't want corporations going after you....then don't commit crimes, and pay for products like every single other person does!

They did that to themselves by choosing to partake in illegal activities. Pirates choose to take something that doesn't belong to them, knowing full well that there will be consequences if they are caught. They have nobody to blame but themselves.