I’m auctioning off out/away (? Non native speaker 😅) my old-ish gaming consoles and this person is asking about a unit’s serial number. Why? I mean, I put up more than ten images of the console from various angles and such… What’s the significance?

  • Solumbran@lemmy.world
    10·
    7 months ago

    For the nintendo switch for example, it makes it hackable or not.

    For other consoles where it matters less, it can be to get information about hardware inside and such, as consoles can sometimes change internal components without changing the name of the console, and the serial number would be a way to determine it I guess.

    Edit: what the other comment said better, basically

    • durinn@programming.devOP
      1·
      7 months ago

      I had no idea. 😅 I wonder how hard/fun it is to mod consoles, as opposed to fiddle with single board computers.