Nintendo reserved the right to kill your Switch 2

Nintendo kept early Switch 2 units non-functional until the June 5, 2025 release date. Completing setup and installing the day-one patch required an internet connection, which locked out anyone without reliable service. Once a game updates you're stuck with that version. Nintendo blocks rollback to an older build, so a game-breaking update leaves factory-resetting the whole console, wiping every save, as the only fix if you own one console.

Section 1 of the Switch 2 User Agreement says the Software is "licensed, not sold, to you," and that if you fail to comply with its restrictions Nintendo "may render the Console and/or the Software permanently unusable in whole or in part." Section 5 lets Nintendo shut off your access when it "in its sole discretion, determines or reasonably suspects" a violation. The May 2025 update to the Nintendo Account User Agreement carries the same permanently unusable language, applied there to "the applicable Nintendo device" rather than to the Switch 2 alone.

Section 7 of the Switch 2 agreement sends disputes to individual arbitration and waives the right to join a class action, subject to a 30-day opt-out you have to mail to Nintendo's Redmond office. consumerrights.wiki records the stricter terms being read as anti-piracy work ahead of the Switch 2 launch, and the restrictions do name "unauthorized, illegal, or pirated software or hardware." The same list covers anyone who would "modify, reverse engineer, ... decompile, disassemble" the Software, written broad enough that ordinary owners are left exposed.