Nintendo Switch Adds More Words To Its Ban List

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The Nintendo Switch online experience has become a slightly safer place as Nintendo adds more words to its banned list. The Nintendo Switch is considered by many to be a more family-friendly console compared to its contemporaries, and the company itself tries to stick close to that by not only releasing more family-friendly games for the system, but also making the online experience for it a safer place for kids and their families. However, words and what they mean naturally change over time, and thus it's up to Nintendo to update the list of words that are banned from online games.

For years, as Nintendo has switched to a more mainstream online experience with many of its games, it's created a list of banned words that are prohibited from being used in its online games, with games like Pokemon Scarlet and Violet's bigger multiplayer gameplay being a part of those. Every once in a while, Nintendo comes in to rearrange the words, change some out, or just add new banned words to the list, usually with a system update.

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In the most recent update, 16.0.0, more words were added to the ban list. Thanks to known Nintendo Switch data miner OatmealDome, who has reported about Nintendo's banned words in the past, their Twitter posts have detailed exactly what update 16.0.0 entails for the system, including a basic summary of the words banned. In their tweets, they say that the way the Nintendo Switch's OS deals with bad words has been «slightly redesigned,» with the code being moved away from its original position to «avoid unnecessary code duplication.» Along with that, they say that the words being banned included «sexually charged language,