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Nintendo Switch 2 Automatically Disables Rumble After Prolonged Use (nintendosoup.com)
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[–] 50 points 1 year ago (13 children)

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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  • [–] 40 points 1 year ago (12 children)

    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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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    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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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    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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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (4 children)

    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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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    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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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    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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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Yeah.

    There's actual things Nnintendo could do better, but this weird smear campaign I've been seeing is just... weird.

    People are inventing issues with nonexistent hardware components, claiming the gamechat button noise when pressed says a slur, claiming the joycon2s have the same stick drift issue solely because they aren't hall effect sensors (despite nintendo outright stating they rebuilt the stick from the ground up for the joycon2, and the design nintendo is using for the new sticks being the same design literally every gaming company has been using for decades with no issues), claiming that switch 2 ports are going to be switch 1 carts with an upgrade code in them, etc etc.

    Like.... guys, focus on real problems to get attention to them in hopes of them getting fixed, not just made up bs.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    Seems Par for the course for Lemmy tbh, they tend to come up with all sorts of hyperbolic scenarios for these companies they hate. I've seen it with Microsoft too even though that is a company with a ton of valid things to complain about.

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