Nintendo issues cease-and-desist for Switch modchip installation service

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  A prototype SX Pro device soldered to a Nintendo Switch motherboard. [credit: Team Xeceuter ]

Last month, Nintendo went to court in an effort to stop retailers from selling an upcoming line of internal Switch mod chips, which the company says enable and encourage piracy. Now, Nintendo is expanding its efforts by sending a cease-and-desist letter to one company that merely offers to install mod chips obtained elsewhere.

Connecticut-based Logistics Consulting LLC has offered a "Nintendo Switch SX CORE SX LITE Mod Chip Service" on its website for a few weeks, according to founder Ben Van Rheen. As noted on the site, the $60 offering is "NOT for the purchase of the Nintendo Switch SX CORE or SX LITE mod. We don't make the mod or sell the mod, just the installation service."

That offering has now been suspended, according to the page, as Logistics is "currently in talks with Nintendo and their lawyers from New York."

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