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The minor was located thanks to her Nintendo Switch console.
Nintendo’s best-selling video game so far is Mario Kart 8 Deluxe with 48.41 million sales.
Nintendo reported in 2021 that it exceeded 28.5 million units in console sales.
Who would have imagined that video games are not only used to entertain but also to locate missing persons, as happened with a girl who was located by the FBI thanks to Nintendo Switch, this story occurred in Arizona last summer.
Nintendo sold, in 2022, 17.98 million units of Nintendo Switch consoles, a number that is in line with its own forecast of 18 million devices.
Compared to what happened a year earlier, a drop of 22 percent is noted. Indeed, in Nintendo’s fiscal year ending in March 2022, the company delivered 23 million consoles.
They locate a minor thanks to Nintendo Switch
Thanks to information transmitted from a Nintendo Switch console, the FBI was able to find a missing 15-year-old girl in the United States, who left her home in Virginia on August 3, 2022 and did not return.
In this regard, volunteers like Keitra Coleman and her group, Hear Their Voices, helped the case. “We immediately reached out to her family and talked to her grandmother and her stepfather, and the next day, we were there, ‘boots on the floor,’” Coleman said in an interview with ABC15 this month.
Hear Their Voices helps missing and exploited children, victims of domestic violence and the homeless.
To find the whereabouts of the minor, the teams expanded their search through the streets without success, the surprise was that the teenager was already on a bus bound for more than 300 kilometers away. The place of arrival was in some apartments in Tolleson, Ariz.
According to court reports, Ethan Roberts, a then-28-year-old man, befriended her online, traveled to Virginia to pick her up, and then forced her to participate in unspeakable acts. This subject allowed her minor to travel with her Nintendo Switch console, who, when connecting to download a game, left digital traces.
It should be remembered that Switch has a function that allows you to alert gaming friends on their Switches every time you go online; a friend saw his name with recent activity and alerted authorities.
“Probably no one had thought of this at the time,” said Frank Milstead, former director of the Arizona Department of Public Safety. “The fact that someone later on, another kid, was smart enough to say, ‘Hey look, my friend is online, she’s been missing and I need to tell someone.'”
With the help of Nintendothe FBI got the address IP of the switcheswhich led them to the kidnapper’s apartment complex.
Another similar case also occurred in the United States, where a 16-year-old girl was located after she used hand signals that went viral on TikTok to show a driver that she was in danger.
The young woman was inside a silver Toyota when a motorist in another vehicle saw her use the gesture that was created to help address domestic violence, according to the Laurel County Sheriff’s Office in Kentucky.
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