Angry Switch Owner Files Class Action Lawsuit Over Bricked Console

A bricked Nintendo Switch can be the stuff of nightmares for a lot of people and yet, this is exactly what happened last March to owners of a third-party dock by the company Nyko. Their consoles basically stopped working as intended after the 5.0 update, which led to a huge uproar. One gamer is so angry, in fact, that he is now filing a class action lawsuit.

The lawsuit was filed on Friday, Kotaku reports, with the basis of the case being the supposed insufficient warnings with regards to the defect of the dock by Nyko. The Switch owner who filed the lawsuit is Michael Skiathitis. He has apparently sent his console to Nintendo for repair, already, and notified Nyko of the problem.

In the documents, the allegation behind the lawsuit suggests that “unbeknownst to consumers, the Nyko Portable Docking Kits for Nintendo Switch are prone to causing numerous problems to the devices that they are intended to support.” Skiathitis is basically accusing Nyko of not doing enough to actually make people aware of the problem with its product.

As the publication notes, Nintendo has been warning customers not to use any other products for the Switch or any of its hardware other than those with its official seal of approval. The Japanese video game company has been explicit in saying that doing so could result in problems.

Nyko has yet to respond to requests for comments on the class action lawsuit, Neoseeker reports. However, it did already provide an explanation for why some of the Switch consoles docked in its product ended up bricked. Apparently, it had something to do with the AV output, which the new update from Nintendo messed with.

Reports about the bricking started circulating when users on Reddit started posting about issues that they experienced following the 5.0 update. For many of the Switch units, the damage is irreversible.