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Nintendo Switch modder arrested in Japan, setting new harsher precedent

Japanese police have arrested a man accused of modifying and selling Nintendo Switch consoles.

It's the first time someone under suspicion of breaking the country's Trademark Act by handling modded Switch consoles has been arrested, NTV News(via Automaton) reports, potentially setting a new, harsher precedent for the future. The 58-year-old suspect is believed to have made a business out of modifying second-hand Switch consoles so that they play pirated games, and reselling these modded units for 28,000 yen (about £150) apiece. Speaking last year, Bowser - now freed from prison but in financial debt to Nintendo due to fines for the rest of his working life - said his sentence had been designed like a message"to other people that [are] still out there, that if they get caught ... [they'll] serve hard time".

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