They had stolen 1.2 million euros

The most spectacular robbery in June has had an unusual victim: Nintendo. A truck that transported almost 3,000 units of its last console It has been devaluedwhich can be a problem for an apparatus that is already having Supply problems. Although perhaps the biggest problem is going to have thieves to give them out.

More than one million euros. That is what the almost 3,000 consoles cost Switch 2 stolen on June 9 of a truck in Colorado. The truck driver did not know what goods he transported, only that it was games and toys. He was on the way from the headquarters of Nintendo of America in Redmond, Washington, to a Gamestop branch in Grapevine, Texas.

Caught Possibly, thieves have difficulty getting all the desirable game to consoles: Nintendo will have perfectly located the serial numbers of the consoles. If someone connects to Internet or uses an account with them, they can disable them at a distance without any difficulty, so the consoles will have to be cracked using a Jailbreak not authorized to convert them into functional consoles. Of course, this last procedure involves its risks, and the user could meet a luxurious pisapapeles if something fails.

To the Dark Web. As usual in these cases, consoles (unless thieves want to resort to direct scam and sell consoles that know that unusable as soon as they connect to the Internet) possibly move For the Dark Webselling them at much lower prices than the originals. There is another solution: selling the consoles outside the United States, although that does not guarantee that they will not be blocked by Nintendo and, in any case, it could imply an size in the robbery that perhaps it was not so planned.

It is not found. The desired Nintendo console, which despite the precautions that the Japanese company is taking are experiencing supply problems, has become the most desired technological product of the moment, and has quickly become the launch of a console most successful in history. This robbery adds a peculiar mythical desired product to the launch.

More and more steal is complicated. When a technological device is stolen, there are several systems that can lead to useless. For example, in the case of mobile phones, the IMEI (International Mobile Equipment Identity) is a unique code that identifies each device, which allows the company to Distance block. This prevents the phone from connecting to mobile networks and disables it for calls, messages and data even if the SIM card is changed. Something could make Nintendo with these consoles.

With the church we have encountered. Nintendo takes the Protection of your devices and, in general, of their legal rights. It is one of the companies that has most exhaustively fought against unauthorized copy of your gamessuch as cartridges, USB memories and modchips, which allow playing roms. Nintendo has obtained numerous judicial sentences in their favor worldwide in that sense.

Nintendo also supports these efforts with unique certificates and tickets linked to both the device and the Nintendo account to identify unauthorized users, to which regular software updates of their consoles are added to close vulnerability. It has reached to change hardware components (such as chip Mariko in Switch) to hinder the Homebrew and piracy.

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