Switch 2 Users Are Reporting Instances Of Their Consoles Overheating | Nintendo Life
"Without a fan, you can’t play for long"
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.
A good rule for life in general is 'Don't be an early adopter'.
Chill. Every piece of hardware has a fault rate. Millions sold, how many overheat?
Coincidentally, these reports are coming with heat waves everywhere.
We had the same problem with first year switch 1 release
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.
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...
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.
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.