Nintendo Gives Switch Warning As Summer Temperatures Rise - Summer is hot, who coulda thunk?

[Maurice Caine]

https://kotaku.com/nintendo-switch-climate-change-temperature-handheld-1849168252

While there are many parts of the world more used to hitting the likes of 95 degrees Fahrenheit, the rapid increase in global temperatures means such heat is becoming a factor elsewhere. So much so that Nintendo has just issued a warning not to play with your Switch once the thermometer hits the big numbers.

The Nintendo Switch, it seems, is not designed to run when the surroundings hit 95 degrees. Tweeting on its Japanese account, as spotted by Eurogamer, the company explained the console should be used only between “5 to 35 ℃.” For the scant few countries that still base their temperature scale on 16th-century guesses at the freezing point of an obscure brine, that works out to between 41 and 95 degrees Fahrenheit.

“If the temperature of the main unit becomes too high, it may sleep automatically to protect the main unit,” explains Nintendo (translated by Twitter). Which is to say, playing in such sunshine isn’t going to melt the chips inside, but rather just have the machine switch itself off to prevent anything worse from happening.

It adds, “If there is foreign matter or dust on the air intake/exhaust port of the main unit, remove it with a vacuum cleaner. For your safety, do not disassemble the main unit.”

Heatwaves are popping up all over the world right now. Kotaku HQ in New York is currently sweltering in 90 degrees, while we’re being issued governmental warnings for record-breaking temperatures even on this most drizzly of isles where I’m based in the UK. In both places, heat over what I’m now calling The Nintendo Limit is expected early next week.

Similar temperatures are being predicted for Nintendo’s home in Kyoto, Japan next week, while mainland Europe has already experienced a record-breaking lethal heatwave during June, set to pick up again this weekend.

Of course, if you live in, say, Texas, or Portugal, or Australia, you’re likely emitting a pitying laugh at this point, staring at your blank-faced Switch, while quietly melting into a nearby bucket.

Hopefully the Switch Pro will be designed with a hotter planet in mind.

 

[Larry David's Opera Cape]

For the scant few countries that still base their temperature scale on 16th-century guesses at the freezing point of an obscure brine, that works out to between 41 and 95 degrees Fahrenheit.

The bugman hatred for Fahrenheit and the imperial measurement system is hilarious. They get truly incensed about it.

 

[Troonos]

For the scant few countries that still base their temperature scale on 16th-century guesses at the freezing point of an obscure brine, that works out to between 41 and 95 degrees Fahrenheit.

What a smug envirocuck faggot. Here's the Peetz-looking soylord himself:



I can totally imagine that autistic face with long hair screaming at a webcam, "Umm, do your research you damn... fucking stupid... shithead motherfuckers! Umm, hello! Umm, the fucking planet is getting hotter, you insolent, dumb, umm... stupid fucks! Fuck you! I'm banning you!" And of course he's a vidya consoomer.

Fag. KYS and decrease humanity's carbon footprint.

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

where did his eyebrows go?

 

[Duke Nukem]

What a smug envirocuck faggot. Here's the Peetz-looking soylord himself:

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I can totally imagine that autistic face with long hair screaming at a webcam, "Umm, do your research you damn... fucking stupid... shithead motherfuckers! Umm, hello! Umm, the fucking planet is getting hotter, you insolent, dumb, umm... stupid fucks! Fuck you! I'm banning you!" And of course he's a vidya consoomer.

Fag. KYS and decrease humanity's carbon footprint.

Consoomers truly have no idea how much energy their consooming actually...consooms.

 

[Too Many Catgirls]

Spotted the guy that has never tried to overclock a CPU in the summer.

 

[whatever I feel like]

My Switch used to have a broken fan (as Nintendo thread regulars will know due to my constant bitching about it) and yeah it gave heat warnings and shut itself down.

 

[Mr. Bung]

The bugman hatred for Fahrenheit and the imperial measurement system is hilarious. They get truly incensed about it.

We're Americans. We're sure as hell not going to use a system of measurement developed by the fucking Frogs, even with the vast majority of the world cucked to it.

There's nothing soycuck bugmen hate more than American Exceptionalism.

 

[Miller]

What a smug envirocuck faggot. Here's the Peetz-looking soylord himself:

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I can totally imagine that autistic face with long hair screaming at a webcam, "Umm, do your research you damn... fucking stupid... shithead motherfuckers! Umm, hello! Umm, the fucking planet is getting hotter, you insolent, dumb, umm... stupid fucks! Fuck you! I'm banning you!" And of course he's a vidya consoomer.

Fag. KYS and decrease humanity's carbon footprint.

Wow, Kotaku has hired an old huwite male? WTF?!

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

I have a Lite model lmao

 

[AirdropShitposts]

95 degrees at the height of the summer is a "record" worth writing a news article about what happens to all electronics that overheat?

This dude literally took the seven day forecast and turned it into an article for which he stuck climate change in the url. Dude looks 50, has he forgotten every summer of his entire life?

edit:

where I’m based in the UK.

oh

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

Every Nintendo handheld has had a warning about using them in extreme temperatures somewhere in the manual. Just checked my Switch's manual. It has one.

 

[SNEED.EXE]

where did his eyebrows go?

It's so hot in Britbongland his eyebrows burned off.

 

[usernames can change now!]

The bugman hatred for Fahrenheit and the imperial measurement system is hilarious. They get truly incensed about it.

the solution is to start using Rankine when they get upset about Fahrenheit

 

[Dysnomia]

Every Nintendo handheld has had a warning about using them in extreme temperatures somewhere in the manual. Just checked my Switch's manual. It has one.

I've been using my 3DS and it did get kind of hot. So did the smartphone I just use for PAD since it was free and my tablet was outdated. Oddly enough the tablet doesn't get hot when I watch movies on it at night. And my room is hella hot. I thought about ways I could cool things down but I'm afraid of condensation.

I hate summer so much. I can't wait for the sweet icy chill of winter.

 

[Celebrate Nite]

I have a Lite model lmao

How does it perform? Genuinely asking.

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

How does it perform? Genuinely asking.

On a budget but perfectly fine.

 

[Daddy's Little Kitten]

I hate summer so much. I can't wait for the sweet icy chill of winter.

>tfw you live in the tropics

I haven't used my Switch in months, but I almost knocked it over and it woke up. I'm worried for my PC, although this is its second summer.

 

[A-Stump]

If you use a Switch in public you're either a retard or a child. If you're in your house and it's above 95 degrees, maybe you should buy an air conditioner and not games.

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

Jokes on them. I haven’t played my Switch in months because I keep forgetting to charge it, on top of the games that I had wanted to play from over three years ago.