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[–] tiramichu@lemm.ee 29 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

You'll probably have a while to wait.

The Switch 1 was able to run homebrew due to a hardware exploit in the CPU which allowed injection of arbitrary code. The interesting thing about that vulnerability being that since it was a hardware vulnerability, it couldn't be patched out even after it was discovered.

Following that incident, I'm sure Nintendo has been working especially hard to ensure there are no similar vulnerabilities existing on the Switch 2.

That said, console hackers are an amazingly creative and talented bunch, so I wouldn't be surprised by anything.

[–] ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 3 weeks ago

Hard to say. Consoles have certainly gotten more sercure and people finding vulnerabilities are far less likely to just give them out for free these days

But there is incentive to hack any console and nintendo has historically attracted the biggest dorks. Additionally they also seem to historically make pretty huge blunders, though the switch exploit was nvidias fault tbf

[–] neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I’m pretty sure all Nintendo consoles have had a problem with being hacked. As far back as the Wii, people were able to run hombrew pretty quickly.

I think Nintendo just sucks at console security or maybe they are a bigger target due to their exclusives.

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 3 points 3 weeks ago

You could have said that about every Nintendo console since the NES, yet here we are.