
Nintendo will take your Switch 2 offline forever if you use a Mig flash cartridge
Cameron Faulkner
created: June 17, 2025, 9:06 p.m. | updated: June 18, 2025, 11:49 a.m.
It’s not a ban hammer from sucking at Mario Kart World, thankfully for me, but one that’s targeting consoles that have used a Mig – a microSD card-equipped Switch cartridge that can be filled with copies of games.
Whether you’ve used one to play pirated games, or to play copies of games that you own, Nintendo’s stance on the matter is broad: It considers both to be violations of its user agreements.
The makers of the Mig cartridge have taken reasonable efforts to distance itself from what a majority of buyers will likely do with it, which is play pirated games.
YouTube creator Scattered Brain posted a video about their banned Switch 2 in which they tried to find a way around the ban.
However, a factory reset essentially bricked their Switch 2, as it no longer allowed signing into any Nintendo Account.
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