Hardware [Poll] Nintendo Switch warp

Joe88 · Apr 23, 2017

The Real Jdbye said:
Yeah. I haven't heard my fan turn on even once so hopefully it's just that silent and isn't simply broken.

That's the exception, not the rule. From what I heard it was caused by them not leaving enough room for the battery to expand from heat (because of how every new phone these days has to be thinner and better than the previous model) so it was a fundamental design flaw. The Switch however seems to have plenty of room, the battery is held in by foam which will contract if needed. I do kind of worry about batteries exploding though, not just because of that event but because it happens sometimes to any device. Luckily I'm just as likely to win the lottery as that happening to me, and I'm probably never gonna win the lottery

It was actually because the way the battery was designed, one of the corners was curved, the layers inside ended up touching each other creating a short, and eventually exploded, the replacement batteries also had defects but in a different place, they were rushed out without proper testing,, it had nothing to do with expansion.

Elusivo · Apr 23, 2017

chartube12 said:
The first person whom claimed their switch was bending and was warped, admitted he lied. Only after euro gamer proved he photo shopped his photo. Their hasn't been any official reports anywhere else since except for people resharing his faked photos.

If he lied then that 1st person had a vision of things to come.

I did not reshare his pics and i can take more pics of mine, it's not fake in any way, and nobody sat on it.

Like i said my switch is 99% of the time docked, and it has good ventilation area. It did rest for a couple of hours on my bed (without being used) cause i removed the joycons to mail them to Nintendo to get them fixed for the connection issues (a bit ironic i found the bent switch cause of another flaw).
When i reinserted it back into the dock it wouldn't sit down anymore, only with force, it's clearly bent and scratching and pushing against the walls of the dock.
Since i already had glass screen protection which does add some thickness to the switcb i dunno if removing it will make it slide in easily again or not, so there's even that possibility that ppl without screen protection might have theirs warped and din realize it yet.

I also never heard the fan running, so it either failed or is very quiet, but i did felt a warm gentle breeze out the vents one time while helding it, so dunno.

I did not call nintendo about this yet, but i wouldn't be surprised if they deny warranty fixing it and say it is my fault or whatever.
I had sony xperia x1 which its case broke on its own, and there were hundreds of reports of ppl with same problem and sony didn't accept to fix mine, so it wouldn't surprise me to have similar treatment from nintendo, let's see.

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The Real Jdbye · Apr 23, 2017

Joe88 said:
It was actually because the way the battery was designed, one of the corners was curved, the layers inside ended up touching each other creating a short, and eventually exploded, the replacement batteries also had defects but in a different place, they were rushed out without proper testing,, it had nothing to do with expansion.

If you read my later reply you would realize I already knew that

Though it does have everything to do with expansion.

Deleted-368796 · Apr 25, 2017

People still insist that warping is not possible...
"I have X device, and it got real hot, but did not warp. Therefore if X does not bend, Y also can not."
Clearly, some of you do not understand mechanical design.

You have a device made up of multiple layers of diff materials. Steel, glass (the LED display), and several compositions of plastics.
They all have very different expansion rates at diff temps. And the majority if the Switches face is joined by an unknown plastic.

Just because X device (like a laptop base) did not warp, that is NOT comparative to the Switch. Laptop base does not have a gaping window hole for a display.

The Real Jdbye · Apr 25, 2017

fire3element said:
People still insist that warping is not possible...
"I have X device, and it got real hot, but did not warp. Therefore if X does not bend, Y also can not."
Clearly, some of you do not understand mechanical design.

You have a device made up of multiple layers of diff materials. Steel, glass (the LED display), and several compositions of plastics.
They all have very different expansion rates at diff temps. And the majority if the Switches face is joined by an unknown plastic.

Just because X device (like a laptop base) did not warp, that is NOT comparative to the Switch. Laptop base does not have a gaping window hole for a display.

Laptop bases do have a gaping window hole for the keyboard, though.
Also, the screen is not glass.

urherenow · Apr 25, 2017

I know why they're bending... it's because the stubby ass analog sticks also have buttons, and every freaking time you try to run from a big scary guy in BotW, you end up crounching instead and dying from moving too slow. gaaaaaahhhhhhh!!!!!!! :nayps3:

sarkwalvein · Apr 25, 2017

urherenow said:
I know why they're bending... it's because the stubby ass analog sticks also have buttons, and every freaking time you try to run from a big scary guy in BotW, you end up crounching instead and dying from moving too slow. gaaaaaahhhhhhh!!!!!!!

LOL, never happened to me.
Actually I find the stick buttons on mine so hard that you really have to be wanting to press them for them to work.
Nevertheless, that would also work for the bending theory, everytime you want to crouch you will be almost stepping over the thing.

PS: Before continuing this rumour about this being a commonplace problem, mine is not warped and I've used it a lot both on the dock and on the go.

Sketchy1 · Apr 25, 2017

xile6 said:
People do know this is a handheld and if you apply force on it it will bend. plastic tends to crack while metal will keep the bend. There is no way the switch is getting hot enough to do this on its own. It has to be user error.

Not contesting your theory, but overheating could be a plausible problem, especially for a mostly plastic based console.

And who would intentionally heat up a switch?

The Real Jdbye · Apr 25, 2017

Sketchy1 said:
Not contesting your theory, but overheating could be a plausible problem, especially for a mostly plastic based console.

And who would intentionally heat up a switch?

They probably didn't do it intentionally, but leaving the Switch face up on a flat surface, or worse, a soft one like a couch or bed, could cause it to overheat. I myself left it on the side of my couch a few times while powered on not considering that it has air vents underneath but once I heard these reports of them bending I thought back at that and realized "oh shit, I'm lucky my Switch didn't bend". It wasn't for long, just a couple minutes at a time while I was looking at my laptop or typing something. I've always done that with my gamepad because it's lolhueg so it's an old habit, that thing doesn't even get warm though. Might take some time to get rid of that habit.

Sketchy1 · Apr 25, 2017

The Real Jdbye said:
They probably didn't do it intentionally, but leaving the Switch face up on a flat surface, or worse, a soft one like a couch or bed, could cause it to overheat. I myself left it on the side of my couch a few times while powered on not considering that it has air vents underneath but once I heard these reports of them bending I thought back at that and realized "oh shit, I'm lucky my Switch didn't bend". It wasn't for long, just a couple minutes at a time while I was looking at my laptop or typing something. I've always done that with my gamepad because it's lolhueg so it's an old habit, that thing doesn't even get warm though. Might take some time to get rid of that habit.

So you could call that partially bad design lml.

Leave it face up - overheats
Leave it face down - scratches screen

netovsk · Apr 25, 2017

This is outrageous

Does PS4 bend too?

Gotta stop putting in the back pocket

Sketchy1 · Apr 25, 2017

netovsk said:
This is outrageous

Does PS4 bend too?

Gotta stop putting in the back pocket

I think the point is your not gonna be always holding the switch while it's in use. Maybe a potty break and you leave it on your bed?

xile6 · Apr 25, 2017

Sketchy1 said:
Not contesting your theory, but overheating could be a plausible problem, especially for a mostly plastic based console.

And who would intentionally heat up a switch?

Not overheating it, but bending it by gripping it to hard.
A few people ended up with bend cellphone because of tight pockets and alk plastic phone.

So someone is playing it handheld and are bending it inwards

Deleted-368796 · Apr 26, 2017

No, they don't.
There are 2 main types of laptop keyboard designs. Chiclet/Island style, and drop-in with frame.
Chiclet style is a design in which the KB is mounted from within the laptop frame. They almost always have a supporting metal frame, either embedded in the laptop frame or as part of the KB. And that is completely ignoring all the cross supports run between all the keys. So not an unsupported open hole.

Then you have the drop-in KB type. I have NEVER seen a drop-in without a metal frame or backplate. These KB types screw and or snap into the laptop body, and strengthen the frame overall. At the least, the opening in which the KB sits.

Either way, neither designs are any where close to the open face of the Switch. Where the plastic screen face takes up ~85-90% of the front.
On a laptop, that keyboard opening is more like ~30-50% of the total area.
These 2 devices can not compare. Designs are completely different.

The Real Jdbye said:
Laptop bases do have a gaping window hole for the keyboard, though.

The Real Jdbye · Apr 30, 2017

My switch is now bent. No idea when it happened, but it most likely wasn't from heat. Could have been that way from the factory for all I know, I didn't check it by placing it on a flat surface and seeing if it wiggles from side to side until now. Only 2 other people besides me have held the Switch and it didn't seem like they were applying excessive force to it.
It's very slight, I didn't notice it until I laid it on a flat surface, but I can easily tell now. It's more noticeable on the bottom side (where the charger port is)
Guess the Switch is going back to Gamestop once I get back from my vacation.

Deleted-368796 · May 1, 2017

The Real Jdbye said:
My switch is now bent. No idea when it happened, but it most likely wasn't from heat. Could have been that way from the factory for all I know,

That sucks. Sorry to hear yours bent too. I promise you though, it is not due to excessive force. It has to be heat related. Also possible that yours came like that, and you are just now noticing it (like you said).
If you get a replacement, I would highly suggest leaving the back door of the dock open, and set you a 12v PC fan blowing into the back. That is what I've been doing and the Switch runs MUCH cooler when docked. Good luck with LameStop though :/

The Real Jdbye · May 1, 2017

fire3element said:
That sucks. Sorry to hear yours bent too. I promise you though, it is not due to excessive force. It has to be heat related. Also possible that yours came like that, and you are just now noticing it (like you said).
If you get a replacement, I would highly suggest leaving the back door of the dock open, and set you a 12v PC fan blowing into the back. That is what I've been doing and the Switch runs MUCH cooler when docked. Good luck with LameStop though :/

It's far more likely to be from excessive force.

F4LK · May 21, 2017

Gonna bump this to ask, does this only happen when the console is docked? (Yeah i could go trough 6 pages and what not but pshhhh)
No plan to do that anytime soon because i enjoy it in handheld mode. Just curious.

sarkwalvein · May 21, 2017

Who knows, I've read at least a couple of posts when it happened after they left it turned on over the bed, some people theorising it was related to blocking the airflow.

The Real Jdbye · May 21, 2017

F4LK said:
Gonna bump this to ask, does this only happen when the console is docked? (Yeah i could go trough 6 pages and what not but pshhhh)
No plan to do that anytime soon because i enjoy it in handheld mode. Just curious.

It could be related to blocking the airflow leaving it on a soft surface while powered on. Which I have done a few times (leaving it on the couch while typing on GBAtemp or chatting etc) before realizing "oh shit, there are air vents under there", but it was never for very long at a time and the game was always paused or in a menu so it's not like it was running something super demanding. And honestly it doesn't get very hot at all in handheld mode, compared to when docked. And when docked those air vents are more or less blocked anyway, so it's way more likely to have been caused by the dock. I would have noticed if I picked the Switch up after leaving it on the couch and it was really hot, and that didn't happen, so I doubt that's the cause (at least in my case)

I'm sure the Switch will get really hot if left on a bed or similar running BotW (without pausing the game), but realistically you're gonna pause the game when you put the console down, and even if you didn't, the dock really seems like a worst case scenario, there's hardly any room behind the air vents when docked, plus it's clocked higher when docked.

Once I get back from my vacation in about 5 weeks time, I'm gonna return it, which gives them about a month to repair it before Splatoon 2 comes out.
Once I get it back, I'm gonna take the back off the dock. Hopefully it doesn't happen again after that.

For now I'm gonna stick to mostly using it in handheld mode. Of course that's not always possible (for example if I want to play multiplayer), but considering I'm sending it in, I don't want to take apart the dock just yet.

I was doubtful that it was caused by heat originally, but after having it happen to me, I'm almost sure it has to be caused by heat. Only two people have handled the Switch except me and while one of them might have a habit of grasping controllers in a death grip, he only tried it out for a few seconds and I watched him the entire time and it didn't seem like he was holding it excessively hard (at least not hard enough to bend it), and I've been really careful with it myself.
So it's not really likely that it's been bent by force.

Hardware [Poll] Nintendo Switch warp

Does your Switch bend?

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No

Slightly

I don't have switch

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