Brazilian Watchdog Challenges Nintendo Over ‘Abusive Clauses’ in Switch 2 License Agreement

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So, here’s a wild one: Nintendo’s in the hot seat in Brazil. Yeah, you heard right. Some consumer group called Procon-SP is all up in arms, saying Nintendo’s doing some sneaky stuff in their end-user license agreement. Apparently, these legal mumbo-jumbo bits are stopping gamers from playing online. And apparently, this is “abusive” — or that’s what they’re saying, at least.

Anyway, this was first picked up by Dexerto, so props to them. Procon-SP got in touch with Nintendo, asking them to change some parts of this agreement that people in Brazil have to sign. Just last month, it came out that if you don’t follow Nintendo’s mighty rules, boom, they can lock you out of your account or even make your console stop working. Hardcore, right? All because of some copyright stuff.

Right off the bat, Nintendo throws down a warning. Basically, if you step out of line, your console might turn into a very expensive paperweight. They timed this change to happen with the launch of the new Nintendo Switch 2. Perfect timing, huh? Talk about strict with piracy.

Procon-SP isn’t just mumbling about it — they’re really irritated by the “unilateral and unjustified” cancellations of subscriptions. Oh, and a little fun fact: Nintendo doesn’t actually have a Brazilian office, so Procon-SP had to ring up Nintendo’s U.S. team. Nintendo then hired some Brazilian lawyers for, I don’t know, legal magic or something.

And by the way, in some dramatic fashion, Nintendo’s already been suspending accounts left and right for folks using this thing called a Mig Flash card. Never heard of it? Me neither, until now. It’s like, it mimics a Switch 2 cartridge so you can store games, which sounds surprisingly useful. Some folks say they’re just keeping backups of their own games, although who’s to say really?

Nintendo says they’ll look into Procon-SP’s demands and will let us know what’s up in a good 20 days. Oh, speaking of which, the Switch 2 is selling like hotcakes. It’s so popular that the president of Nintendo actually apologized for the shortage. Can you believe that? An actual apology — wild times.

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