Nintendo Smiles: FBI dismantles one of the most famous pirate games for Switch

Battle Nintendo Against piracy, and the Japanese won a new victory. As reported Kotaku And VGCHe FBI He dismantled NSW2UOne of the sites Pirate games For Nintendo Switch The most popular and used in the world.

According to reports, the US Federal Agency captured the portal this week from the decision on confiscation issued by the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia.

Since the Nintendo Switch was launched in 2017, the NSW2U has become one of the most used pirate repositories in the world. Thousands of names for the Japanese console were illegally available on the aforementioned page, which not only allowed her to perform her in hacked consoles, but also in PC emulators.

At the entrance to the network under consideration, there is now a notification indicating the procedure headed by the FBI. The same also participated in Information and financial research service of the Netherlands (Fit). At the moment, it is not known whether the NSW2U attack led to the arrest or charges of people of their responsibility.

He adds TorrentfreakThe Pirate Games portal for Nintendo Switch was not the only confiscated FBI and Fiod. These media indicate that other sites devoted to the same illegal activity – and are allegedly connected – work with the same fate. It will be among them PS4PKGIN Game-2u And BinghamField

The FBI ends with the NSW2U website, Pirate Games for Nintendo Switch

Dismantling NSW2U occurs after the portal has earned the attention of European and American authorities. At the beginning of 2025, the Pirate Games portal for Nintendo Switch was included in the annual list of “threats of piracy” of the management of the commercial representative of the United States. While in May he earned a place in the list of falsification and piracy of the European Union.

Nintendo interest in blocking NSW2U is not surprising, given that this web site has become one of the reference platforms for obtaining Switch pirate games. His popularity was also due to the fact that he proposed illegal versions of many names that They did not even officially runField

Let’s keep in mind that Nintendo Switch quickly became one of the favorite platforms for the spread of pirate games. The ease of hacking it using the third party software allowed the massification of the portals responsible for the distribution of ROMs necessary for the illegal implementation of the video game.

The Japanese lead the crusade against piracy on their platforms, and with these news they seemed to win a very relevant victory. It will be interesting to see what will happen when Nintendo Switch 2 This is massive, but a priori it seems that the company has taken measures to avoid Hackeos and Pirate games.

Before the debut, Switch 2 Nintendo changed the confidentiality policy and the user account of the account to combat this problem. In particular, the Asians indicated that they could Block the console or its game If they find that you are trying to hack it or change it.