A 23-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of violating the Unfair Competition Prevention Law, alleging that he had modified the home video game console "Nintendo Switch" to falsify the abilities of "Pokemon" and sold data such as rare monsters. I did.
The person arrested was Kazuo Kawamatsu, a 23-year-old unemployed person in Minami-ku, Nagoya.
According to police, Kawamatsu suspected unfair competition in April last year for selling data that tampered with the abilities of monsters appearing in "Pokemon Sword Shield" by modifying "Nintendo Switch" at home so that the data could be tampered with. There is a suspicion of violating the Prevention Law.
Write "500 yen per favorite Pokemon" on the Internet sales site, and create and sell data such as rare monsters that are difficult to acquire upon request and monsters with abilities that do not exist in the original game. It means that he admits the suspicion to the police investigation.
The police are investigating the details of the fact that they have earned an illegal profit of more than 1.1 million yen so far.
According to the police, it is the first time in Japan that the software data has been tampered with by modifying the "Nintendo Switch".