A man named Gary Bowser has been sentenced for selling tools to hack Nintendo consoles. The information would go unnoticed if he didn’t have the same name as Mario’s big villain.
Gary Bowser certainly couldn’t have had a better name. For years, he was involved in the sale of tools to hack consoles – including the Nintendo Switch. According to a court document released February 10 by the Washington court, he was sentenced to 40 months in prison, plus a fine of $4.5 million (just under $4 million). euros). Yes, the great villain of Mario has fallen, after several decades of dark designs.
Because Gary Bowser, ex-member of Team Xecuter, actually bears the same name as Nintendo’s iconic villain, who spends his time capturing Princess Peach to take over the Mushroom Kingdom. This gives rise to a rather funny news item: a namesake of Bowser has therefore been imprisoned in a piracy case affecting, in part, Nintendo consoles.
Nintendo’s boss, too, is called Bowser
We also remember that the current president of Nintendo of America is called… Doug Bowser (he took over from Reggie Fils-Aimé in 2019). By force, we no longer believe in coincidences and the Bowsers are intimately linked to the history of Nintendo. Small clarification all the same: Doug Bowser and Gary Bowser are not related at all, and the president of Nintendo of America has absolutely nothing to do with the activities of pirates belonging to the Team Xecuter group.
If Gary Bowser has fallen, you have to know that Team Xecuter is a big organization, “ responsible for diverting money from several professional creators who work hard to deliver unique experiences. In this case, the group of hackers offers ways to hijack consoles so that they can, for example, run copied games (therefore free). He targeted products such as Nintendo Switch, Nintendo 3DS, NES Classic, PlayStation Classic and Microsoft Xbox consoles.
” This massive hack is estimated to have caused more than $65 million in losses to video game companies “, indicates the lawyer Nick Brown – which explains why the sentence of Gary Bowser, considered as the voice and the face of Team Xecuter, is very heavy. He certainly shouldn’t have taken it out on Nintendo, who don’t mess with their current ownership at all. Especially since his name is Bowser…