Nintendo Switch 2 Automatically Disables Rumble After Prolonged Use
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prolonged exposure to vibrations may be [sic1] harmful to the user’s hands, so disabling the feature after continuous use can be beneficial for health, and [sic2]the rumble motor may overheat if its used for prolonged periods of time, so this feature helps to keep the motor stable.
I think they missed using the controller as a vibrator
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prolonged exposure to vibrations may be [sic1] harmful to the user’s hands, so disabling the feature after continuous use can be beneficial for health, and [sic2]the rumble motor may overheat if its used for prolonged periods of time, so this feature helps to keep the motor stable.
I think they missed using the controller as a vibrator
I wonder how much of the decision was based on proactive care of the users health, and how much was due to a motors overheating issue...
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I wonder how much of the decision was based on proactive care of the users health, and how much was due to a motors overheating issue...
Definitely the latter while the former makes for a cute excuse. Saying “we shipped a flawed product” isn’t going to go over as well as “we’re doing this to protect our customers.”
The controller rumble isn’t continuously rumbling to a point where it is likely to cause damage.
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How tf am I supposed to use this as a vibrator now? wtf Nintendo this is the kinda shit that makes a mfer lose their cool!!
there are so many of us how could you do us like this!?! -
Definitely the latter while the former makes for a cute excuse. Saying “we shipped a flawed product” isn’t going to go over as well as “we’re doing this to protect our customers.”
The controller rumble isn’t continuously rumbling to a point where it is likely to cause damage.
I like how people are very sure Nintendo's shipped a flawed product just based off some random article speculating that the rumble motor MAY overheat... Despite there not even being a motor in the rumble!
Good lord people, it uses a weight on a spring that's magnetically actuated. Stop spreading dumb rumors.
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I like how people are very sure Nintendo's shipped a flawed product just based off some random article speculating that the rumble motor MAY overheat... Despite there not even being a motor in the rumble!
Good lord people, it uses a weight on a spring that's magnetically actuated. Stop spreading dumb rumors.
And you defending Nintendo as shipping a not-flawed product is on equally unsound footing. The Switch 1's joycon drift issue is still present to this day, despite the class action lawsuits against them regarding the issue. Nintendo at least silently conceded to the problem by offering free repairs for it, despite it taking years for them to do so.
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And you defending Nintendo as shipping a not-flawed product is on equally unsound footing. The Switch 1's joycon drift issue is still present to this day, despite the class action lawsuits against them regarding the issue. Nintendo at least silently conceded to the problem by offering free repairs for it, despite it taking years for them to do so.
Nintendo has more than enough actual confirmed issues to attack them on. Inventing issues on hardware components that do not exist is a mental gymnastics exercise that draws attention away from actual issues with their hardware.
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I wonder how much of the decision was based on proactive care of the users health, and how much was due to a motors overheating issue...
Probably entirely the former. Nintendo's got a history of being overzealous with user health (cough constant game interuptions to tell you to take a break cough), and prolonged vibrations ARE bad for your hands (though I imagine no amount of game controller rumble could actually cause health issues), but the 'motors overheating' thing is entirely silly...
Because the rumble in the joycon2s don't have a motor. There's nothing to overheat, it's a magnetically actuated disk weight. Like, it's a whole thing they're super proud about and have advertised, they can move the weight so precisely using the magnetic actuation that they don't even have a speaker in the joycons, they literally just run the rumble faster so it acts like a speaker cone to make sounds/music with it. There's actually a pretty cool demo for it in the switch 2 welcome tour.
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I like how people are very sure Nintendo's shipped a flawed product just based off some random article speculating that the rumble motor MAY overheat... Despite there not even being a motor in the rumble!
Good lord people, it uses a weight on a spring that's magnetically actuated. Stop spreading dumb rumors.
Good lord people, it uses a weight on a spring that's magnetically actuated. Stop spreading dumb rumors.
People refer to vibration motors using that phrasing regardless of the actual technology used to achieve the vibration. No one gives a shit that Apple call theirs a Taptic Engine, or that it uses a linear resonant actuator as opposed to something like an offset spinning weight. It is a vibrate motor to 99% of people, even though it doesn't technically have a motor.
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Good lord people, it uses a weight on a spring that's magnetically actuated. Stop spreading dumb rumors.
People refer to vibration motors using that phrasing regardless of the actual technology used to achieve the vibration. No one gives a shit that Apple call theirs a Taptic Engine, or that it uses a linear resonant actuator as opposed to something like an offset spinning weight. It is a vibrate motor to 99% of people, even though it doesn't technically have a motor.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]While that may be a valid observation, at the end of the day magnetic actuators don't heat up like motors do, so it's actually a pretty relevant difference.
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Nintendo has more than enough actual confirmed issues to attack them on. Inventing issues on hardware components that do not exist is a mental gymnastics exercise that draws attention away from actual issues with their hardware.
Maybe I poorly worded my response. I wasn't defending the other comment, as I haven't looked into the supposed rumble feature causing overheating for the Switch 2. I was just stating that I thought it odd to automatically give a company the benefit of doubt, especially a company like Nintendo.
And for the record, there have been reports with the joycon 1s having overheating issues that were resolved when users disconnected the rumble actuator from functioning. So, I guess, take that however way you want to.
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I like how people are very sure Nintendo's shipped a flawed product just based off some random article speculating that the rumble motor MAY overheat... Despite there not even being a motor in the rumble!
Good lord people, it uses a weight on a spring that's magnetically actuated. Stop spreading dumb rumors.
Because we’re all familiar with the famous Nintendo quality.
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How tf am I supposed to use this as a vibrator now? wtf Nintendo this is the kinda shit that makes a mfer lose their cool!!
there are so many of us how could you do us like this!?!Truly the woke mob ruining games
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Probably entirely the former. Nintendo's got a history of being overzealous with user health (cough constant game interuptions to tell you to take a break cough), and prolonged vibrations ARE bad for your hands (though I imagine no amount of game controller rumble could actually cause health issues), but the 'motors overheating' thing is entirely silly...
Because the rumble in the joycon2s don't have a motor. There's nothing to overheat, it's a magnetically actuated disk weight. Like, it's a whole thing they're super proud about and have advertised, they can move the weight so precisely using the magnetic actuation that they don't even have a speaker in the joycons, they literally just run the rumble faster so it acts like a speaker cone to make sounds/music with it. There's actually a pretty cool demo for it in the switch 2 welcome tour.
Rumble has been basically a variant of a traditional speaker in many devices for a while now.
Also it can still heat up, although it might not be as prone to burnout as a motor.
