Retrospective
Switch 2 is already on sale, yet even after launch the internet is still circulating wild rumors that Nintendo can “brick” the console by measuring voltage on the chips and instantly shutting it down if someone tries to open or probe it.
To judge whether claims like that are believable, it helps to look back at history: how hackers spent decades bypassing the security of handheld consoles, from the Game Boy to the original Switch.
The article explores why even the most sophisticated cryptographic chains were defeated by a single mistake, and how hardware vulnerabilities turned locked-down systems into open doors.
Read the article: How Nintendo consoles were hacked: a retrospective from Game Boy to Switch