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Outrager

5 years ago

Overheating of the Nintendo Switch in the docking station (TV mode). If the Switch is in the docking station and is being played on the TV, the message regarding overheating appears after 15 minutes to approx. 50 minutes (varies, but within this period) and the Switch switches to standby mode. The room temperature is about 20° degrees (+/-0.5° degrees), the Switch is well ventilated, the air can circulate. The mini ventilation slots in the switch are clean/dust-free. Someone online said they had solved the problem by placing the docking station on its side (not standing up). This did not solve the problem for me, as the overheating message "only" appeared after about 50 minutes. It doesn't matter whether I play Mario Kart 8 (solo or MP on the same Switch), Mario Odysee or Zelda. In my opinion, this is certainly not what the inventor (Nintendo) intended. The Switch is no longer brand new (market release March 2017) and I didn't expect this kind of behaviour today (2018). In the past - yes, everything was better in the past - I could play NES/SNES/N64 or PlayStation XY non-stop for hours without interruption. Okay, the technology/design is not identical, but it's not normal for a more modern game console to have system-related interruptions in such short periods of time. A colleague also bought a Switch at digitec (10.10.2018) and has no such problems. However, there are various entries online (US/UK/EU) with similar descriptions. Have any of you also observed such behaviour?

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Anonymous

5 years ago

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No. We don't have that problem. We sometimes play games for quite a long time (e.g. Mario Odyssey), the indoor temperature is around 22.5 degrees (and up to 28 degrees in summer) and the Nintendo is always in the dock. It has never happened that the system overheats. I would tend towards a problem with the Switch.