Nintendo wins $2m piracy case

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Nintendo has won $2m (£1.5m) in a legal battle against a website that sold tools allowing people to play pirated games on its Switch console. Nintendo has filed another lawsuit against eight other operators allegedly selling Team-Xecuter products.
Uberchips was accused of selling hardware and software that let users install and play games for free. As part of the settlement, it must destroy all its stock and hand over its domain name to Nintendo. The tools it sold were made by hacking group Team-Xecuter, which Nintendo had also wanted to sue.

When that effort failed, Nintendo targeted stores that offered its tools for sale instead.

According to the lawsuit, Team-Xecuter designs and manufactures an unauthorised operating system called SX OS and offers tools that install it. Its chips work on all Nintendo Switch and Switch Lite consoles. Uberchips was run by Ohio-based Tom Dilts Jr and was one of a handful of stores that sold the tools. After the action began, the site went offline with a message to visitors reading: "An unfortunate set of events has happened." It cancelled all pre-orders for its SX products and offered refunds.
 
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Honestly considering Nintendo Store prices I can't blame anyone for looking for this tools.

Nintendo Switch games cost the double in comparison to games on PS4, XO and PC (not to mention they run and look worse).

I never seen a Nintendo game below 40€, and even third-parties rarely sell below 20€ on their store (with the same game available on PS4, XO and PC for around 5~10€).
 
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