A truck driver on the way to deliver 2,800 Switch 2 consoles to GameStop pulled over for a quick break - only to find the $1.4 million shipment had vanished

Over 2,800 Nintendo Switch 2 consoles, worth around $1.4 million, were swiped from a truck headed from Redmond, WA to Grapevine, TX. Sounds like a high-stakes, movie-style heist, except the thieves may not have realized Nintendo can remotely disable the stolen devices, making them worthless.

$1.4 million heist of Switch 2 consoles may backfire spectacularly

On June 8, 2025, a truck driver made a pit stop in Bennett, Colorado, and realized that several pallets, holding 2,810 Nintendo Switch 2 consoles, had been stolen. No one’s exactly sure when or where it happened during the trip from Washington to Texas, and the authorities are still looking into it.

But the thieves might be in for a nasty surprise. Once those Switch 2s go online, Nintendo can brick them remotely, turning them into useless plastic, kind of like the ones that got destroyed at GameStop in LA. And so far, no one’s cracked the new system, as Nintendo tightened the security like never before. Someone managed to carry out a ROP exploit, but it’s nowhere near a full jailbreak yet. So that $1.4 million haul might end up being pretty tough to cash in.

Source: Nintendo

As of June 19, 2025, none of the stolen units have shown up in second-hand markets, so chances are they’ll end up being sold online or smuggled out of the US to avoid detection. Each console has a unique serial number that Nintendo and the police can trace. Once someone go online and register it (which is required to play games or get updates) Nintendo can locate the device. The only way to avoid getting caught is to stay offline forever, which kind of defeats the whole purpose.

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