The main issue isn’t just about obvious illegal copies: it's buying official, secondhand Switch 1 cartridges that Nintendo made. You can get a console ban if the previous owner of your game has "ripped" the game’s data for use on another system. You wouldn't even know before it happened, but you'd be blamed.

Although there aren’t a lot of truly new games for the hand-held console, some acclaimed Legend of Zelda titles have received exhilarating visual upgrades.

Nintendo has been cracking down on piracy of its games for a number of years. Back in 2019, the company sued the illegal ROM-sharing site RomUniverse, after it became aware it was offering unlimited downloads of new and old Nintendo games for an annual fee.