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Switch 2 Users Are Reporting Instances Of Their Consoles Overheating | Nintendo Life (www.nintendolife.com)

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[-] heythatsprettygood@feddit.uk 36 points 1 year ago

Probably early production quality issues rearing their head, likely from poor thermal paste application. These units will probably get replaced under warranty soon. If we continue seeing these issues on newer produced consoles in a few months from now though, this is a problem.

[-] LeTak@feddit.org 20 points 1 year ago

We had the same problem with first year switch 1 release

[-] Almacca@aussie.zone 10 points 1 year ago

A good rule for life in general is 'Don't be an early adopter'.

[-] Noerknhar@feddit.org 8 points 1 year ago

Chill. Every piece of hardware has a fault rate. Millions sold, how many overheat?

[-] Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago

Coincidentally, these reports are coming with heat waves everywhere.

[-] olympicyes@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

It’s 92° F in a port city in Japan today. And humid. Was the user charging the switch 2 when this happened? If an iPhone is overheating I don’t see why a switch would be any different.

[-] FinalRemix@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

But doesn't the switch have active cooling? Or is that only when docked?

The reports in the article both complain about no fan, and fan noise...

[-] spitfire@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Which may be different issues, and no one mentioned the environment they were in.

[-] TurboHarbinger@feddit.cl -2 points 1 year ago

So just a thought:

Nintendo releases overclocked consoles for better performance on release (and by extension better overall perfomance reviews), and down the line they release a patch to tether down the heat issue.

[-] heythatsprettygood@feddit.uk 4 points 1 year ago

This is extremely unlikely. Dealing with not only outrage from people whose consoles were slowed down, but also heat from NVIDIA (a company notorious for wanting absolute control over their chips) would not be worth it at all for some better launch reviews.

[-] TurboHarbinger@feddit.cl 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Are you sure it won't affect games on release like cyberpunk, which pretty much runs like shit on every small console?

Besides that, I'm sure NVIDIA is at fault here and not Nintendo /s

[-] heythatsprettygood@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago

An overclock definitely would help performance, even some high end PCs can struggle to run Cyberpunk at an appropriate resolution. However, I do not think Nintendo (or any console manufacturer) would take the risk of a factory overclock, especially considering they are probably using lower bin chips to reduce production costs.

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