Nintendo Switch: The New Update Bans Nudes And Morbid Comments, Explanation

News hardware Nintendo Switch: The New Update Bans Nudes And Morbid Comments, Explanation

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“Send nudes”, but not at Nintendo

Nintendo isn’t exactly known as the most flexible and lax company in video games. After a ban on the distribution of photos ofan old but great guide to Super Mario 64 or have attacked en masse to the music of his games on YouTubelThe Japanese manufacturer comes to lay down some new language rules on the side of the famous Switch.

Recently, the 14.1.1 update is available on the small mobile machine and the official description is enough to leave marble, leaving “general improvements to system stability to improve user experience”† On this side, frankly, we are not disoriented. But thanks to the data mining (which consists of searching the files of a software to unravel secrets) of the very curious OatmealDome, it turns out that this update actually introduces new bans: now certain words are banned, such as “sendnudes” or phrases in Japanese that contain the characters related to “death”. This would particularly concern usernames.

A web browser has changed, but in a mysterious way

The data miner also claims that the Nintendo Switch internet browser has also undergone some changes, the nature of which is not yet known. Given the banned words above, it wouldn’t be surprising if the company restricted web browsing to anything related to sex or morgue.

As it happensit seems difficult to verify these changes as the affected browser can only be accessed by changing the DNS serveras explained to us Eurogamer† Perhaps more little surprises will be discovered in future console patches.

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