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Last year, Nintendo got a prison sentence for Gary Bowser, a member of Team Xecutor, who was accused of causing the Japanese company to lose millions of dollars through devices and software that allow the piracy that was coming.
Judicial documents are now available that fill in some of the additional details related to the case, in which Bowser was sentenced to three years and sentenced to pay an exorbitant amount of cash as a fine.
The documents, which were discovered by Axios, offer the first instance that Nintendo admits that it had released a new version of Switch to combat piracy:
Nintendo has had to release a new version of our hardware in response to one of these hacking tools, and this change involved countless hours of engineering and tweaking in our global manufacturing and distribution chains, and of course the corresponding resources. To be clear, these effects are a direct consequence of the defendant and Team Xecutor’s attack on our technology protection measures.
The statement, which was read in court, allegedly relates to the 2018 update of the Switch basic console. Legal documents indicate that Nintendo claims that the process of upgrading its hardware and enforcing its IP has cost it more than $ 65 million.