Hardware Nintendo Switch meltdown....?

[YourHero]

Well as far as the battery goes, here is a picture of mine.

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You may not be able to see it as well but the back over is bulging up away from my console. I was able to slide my thumb nail in between on that side where as by the gamecard it is impossible. My console was not bent at all though, as it was flat on the face (screen) side perfectly. It worried me because of the battery location and previous experience with bulging. This is what I feel most people are now noticing. So either it's normal and my battery was fine, or there is a possible case of bad battery batches.

 

[Gadd]

should've waited for the newer architecture from nvidia! it's cooler!

 

[Xzi]

I am still leaning on the authenticity of this, but there has been more than one report. Need to find out more about their situation. Regardless of the fact that 99.9% of switch owners do not have this issue, it would be nice to know if it's a possible problem to be on the safe side.

It seems minor curvature can occur as a manufacturing defect, but there aren't a lot of people who would be extremely bothered by that. Mine is perfectly straight even after 4+ hour play sessions.

 

[slingblade1170]

It seems minor curvature can occur as a manufacturing defect, but there aren't a lot of people who would be extremely bothered by that. Mine is perfectly straight even after 4+ hour play sessions.

Same here I played Zelda one night for 8 hours or so while it was docked. Still straight as an arrow. If it's true it has to be for people in hot climates or keep them near hot devices or maybe somewhere with no ventilation.

 

[Benja81]

Same here I played Zelda one night for 8 hours or so while it was docked. Still straight as an arrow. If it's true it has to be for people in hot climates or keep them near hot devices or maybe somewhere with no ventilation.

I killed a PS3 this way, few years ago. Due to my living accommodations at the time, I had to keep my PS3 out of sight; had it basically behind the entertainment center. One day got Ylod.

 

[slingblade1170]

I killed a PS3 this way, few years ago. Due to my living accommodations at the time, I had to keep my PS3 out of sight; had it basically behind the entertainment center. One day got Ylod.

Seen many Ps3s and 360s live a short life due to lack of ventilation. I use to repair them daily and they overheated so easily. Craziest thing I've ever seen in person is a guy who kept his Ps3 and xenon 360 side by side in a cabinet and kept them both on and switch back and forth. Well he brought them too me and he had to bring the cabinet because they melted and burnt into the wood and had to be removed from the cabinet with a huge flat head screw driver.

 

[Benja81]

Seen many Ps3s and 360s live a short life due to lack of ventilation. I use to repair them daily and they overheated so easily. Craziest thing I've ever seen in person is a guy who kept his Ps3 and xenon 360 side by side in a cabinet and kept them both on and switch back and forth. Well he brought them too me and he had to bring the cabinet because they melted and burnt into the wood and had to be removed from the cabinet with a huge flat head screw driver.

OMG lolol

 

[Seliph]

Nope, I played my switch all night docked at it was definitely hot but other than that it was perfectly fine. People over-exaggerate the hotness of the Switch, it's not that bad. I've used hotter phones.

 

[slingblade1170]

OMG lolol

It would helped if this guy would turn on a fucking air conditioner in July! Lol

He's a friend of mine and his house was stupidly hot. I had a pic but it was taken on a moto razr flip phone in 2006 or 07 can't remember. lol

 

[gamesquest1]

Seen many Ps3s and 360s live a short life due to lack of ventilation. I use to repair them daily and they overheated so easily. Craziest thing I've ever seen in person is a guy who kept his Ps3 and xenon 360 side by side in a cabinet and kept them both on and switch back and forth. Well he brought them too me and he had to bring the cabinet because they melted and burnt into the wood and had to be removed from the cabinet with a huge flat head screw driver.

yeah I seen a xbox360 where the back grill had started to deform from the heat on the exhausts so it looked like ovals instead of the normal circles, iirc that was a xenon, but yeah the first few revisions of the 360 were pretty bad

one of the reasons I'm waiting to buy a switch, if I have learnt anything is that its not a good idea to jump on the first console revision of any system, same with the PS4, been seeing so many dead PS4 systems over the last year

 

[sarkwalvein]

even with the off-the-shelf, time tested non-complex technology of the original Wii you had problems with the first revisions (I think I was never able to watch the intro movie of SSBB without it skipping and making weird noises)

 

[YourHero]

even with the off-the-shelf, time tested non-complex technology of the original Wii you had problems with the first revisions (I think I was never able to watch the intro movie of SSBB without it skipping and making weird noises)

I had a first gen Wii and I had no issues with smash at all. I recall it was people had dirty disc readers. I did at one point lack the ability to play brawl period. I opened the Wii up and cleaned the reader and bam, flawless.

 

[Spider_Man]

Please read again. I don't call it bullshit right out. I said I *Believe* that it's bullshit.

Also it must suck to be you, since you have every known issue that ever has been reported by different users, in one and the same console. That's very unlucky.

please read as i didnt quote you, its OfficialBom calling it instantly as bullshit, also again your lacking ability to read because i never said i had every issue.

moron

the issues i have with my switch are
joycon issues
slow frame on botw
heating issues while docked(but i dont play docked as much because it causes frame issues)
recently noticed poor sound quality when using headphones

i then had to add to officialbom who like many are instantly refusing to any negativity towards this console is look at the size of the 360 in comparrison and it had heat issues causing the motherboard to warp..... now why is it impossible to think the same could happen to the switch which is smaller, thinner and has less room for air.

do these nintendo retards think nintendo are the first to release a console that will not have heat warp issues..... main reason why i did not mention it as a fault in my other posts/threads because it is a known issue with any console that is near impossible to test each single unit...... where as most the faults on the switch should have been seen prior to launch because its design flaws and cheap hardware.

 

[sarkwalvein]

now why is it impossible to think the same could happen to the switch which is smaller, thinner and has less room for air.

Because the working temperature under full load of the very low power GPU was measured to be below 50°C, and that melts or bends nothing.
But I could very well understand it bending just due to applying physical force with your hands under normal portable usage due to usage of soft/cheap metals in the frame. Much like the iPhone 6.

 

[Hells Malice]

I doubt this is a thing under any sort of normal circumstances.
I played BOTW for like 14 hours docked before switching to handheld for an hour or two and it wasn't hot at all. Which is very surprising.

 

[Spider_Man]

Because the working temperature under full load of the very low power GPU was measured to be below 50°C, and that melts or bends nothing.
But I could very well understand it bending just due to applying physical force with your hands under normal portable usage due to usage of soft/cheap metals in the frame. Much like the iPhone 6.

the console itself if very sturdy, to bend manually you would cause the casing to crack.

i have not physically measured the temp of mine when docked, but it does feet rather hot, especially near the bottom, now if it was to be played docked for a prolonged period of time since its launch then this heat could cause a problem, as with the 360 and other consoles

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I doubt this is a thing under any sort of normal circumstances.
I played BOTW for like 14 hours docked before switching to handheld for an hour or two and it wasn't hot at all. Which is very surprising.

but alot of people dont have other issues such as the joycons..... doesnt mean the problem is BS (as one person was instant to claim).

alot of people had warped motherboards on the 360, i never, doesnt make the issue bs

i still have my launch ps3 rocking its socks off, others have had heat issues, doesnt make the problem bs.

alot of people cant take the fact i do dislike nintendo for a valid reason, but in my life i have never seen a launch console with so many fucking problems, majority of them are due to poor design and being cheap, cutting costs to save nintendont money.

id rather play the consoles when nintendo were on top form, released great hardware had great support.

 

[s157]

the console itself if very sturdy, to bend manually you would cause the casing to crack.

i have not physically measured the temp of mine when docked, but it does feet rather hot, especially near the bottom, now if it was to be played docked for a prolonged period of time since its launch then this heat could cause a problem, as with the 360 and other consoles

Check out the other bent switch thread. The OP apparently had his switch bent to a rather bad degree, yet he seemingly unbent it with his own hands to "fix" it. He posted a picture of the "unbent" switch, which was still bent, almost to the extent of some of these switch's in the first post. It could very well mean that the switch is easily bendable. Not willing to try it out myself though.

 

[DjoeN]

Still waiting to buy one and it can wait for some time, maybe this summer or after the summer i buy one

 

[Spider_Man]

Check out the other bent switch thread. The OP apparently had his switch bent to a rather bad degree, yet he seemingly unbent it with his own hands to "fix" it. He posted a picture of the "unbent" switch, which was still bent, almost to the extent of some of these switch's in the first post. It could very well mean that the switch is easily bendable. Not willing to try it out myself though.

i tried to bend mine and didnt bend, but id say that is worse if a user can manually bend their console, would make it sound even cheaper.

as ive said from the start, its a known problem heat will cause consoles to bend, problem been nintendo making it so thin and small with very few vents and sitting it in a dock its as bad as sitting it in a small compressed box with next to no air or room to vent.

 

[s157]

Well that answers one of my worries. I wonder what happened with that GBAtemper's switch then...