The FBI has seized and taken down one of the more prominent Nintendo Switch ROM sites, Nsw2u. First reported by Kotaku, the site was seized earlier this week on Thursday, though according to some of the members of the Switch Piracy Reddit page, the site remained up for a few hours before being entirely taken down. If you try to visit the website now, you'll be met with a splash screen from the FBI notifying that the site has been seized "in accordance with a seizure warrant."
The splash screen also includes a logo from the FIOD Tax Administration, a Dutch agency that was involved in investigating the site and having it taken down. Nintendo has not commented on the takedown, but it's clear that this is a part of the company's more aggressive effort to combat piracy on Nintendo Switch and Switch 2 devices.
Regarding the Nintendo Switch 2, the company's ability to brick Switch 2 devices is something that's been widely reported by now, another sign of just how serious Nintendo is about players using their devices in what the company deems to be an "unauthorized" way, even if they are being fought by regional government agencies. After all, it didn't take very much for players to be able to jailbreak Switch devices at launch. All it took to open the door to a jailbroken Switch was a paper clip, before Nintendo had released revised models of the console to nullify the popular method.
That didn't stop players from jailbreaking the device, however, and the battle against piracy is one Nintendo continues to fight.
About the author: David has been writing about videogames, technology, and culture since 2020, with a focus on reporting daily news across multiple publications, including GameDaily.Biz, GameSkinny, and PlayStation Universe before joining Wccftech in 2025. David started contributing as Canada/US reporter for Wccftech's gaming section in 2025. Besides being up-to-date on the industry's movements, he loves interviewing developers, reviewing games, and writing intricate essays about the symbolism and layered meanings to be found in rich narratives as he's done for publications like GamesIndustry.Biz, LostInCult, and others. Outside of games he loves movies, music, theatre, his hometown, and his family, though not necessarily in that order.
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