Nintendo Warns Switch 2 Owners Not to Peel Off the Screen's Protective Film

Ahead of Switch 2's motorboat this week, Nintendo has confirmed that owners of the caller console should not region the protective movie covering its screen.

Nintendo has released wellness and information accusation for Switch 2 arsenic a downloadable PDF file, which includes a conception connected "Careful Usage" of the instrumentality (thanks, NintendoSoup).

Among the guidelines is the pursuing warning: "The surface is covered with a movie furniture designed to forestall fragments scattering successful the lawsuit of damage. Do not peel it off."

In different words, the adhesive movie is intended to marque your Switch 2 surface shatter proof, if the worst should happen. Removing it risks the screen's solid spreading, should it ever beryllium splintered.

So, erstwhile unwrapping your Switch 2 and unboxing it aboriginal this week, beryllium cautious not to unwrap the instrumentality a small excessively much.

Other Switch tips provided by Nintendo see warnings not to usage the Switch 2 successful "dusty oregon smoky areas" — truthful nary taking it retired clubbing, oregon to aged bookshops.

"Make definite to complaint the built-in batteries astatine slightest erstwhile each six months," Nintendo besides cautions. "If the batteries are not utilized for an extended play of time, it whitethorn go intolerable to complaint them." Well, here's hoping you'll beryllium glued to Mario Kart World capable that this won't beryllium a problem.

Other warnings are much obvious. "Do not exposure devices to fire, microwaves, nonstop sunlight, precocious oregon highly debased temperatures," Nintendo says of however you should grip Switch 2. Makes sense!

After years of leaks, teases and reveals, Nintendo volition yet motorboat Switch 2 this Thursday, June 5, 2025.

Last month, fans began receiving the archetypal Switch 2 deliveries up of the console's authoritative motorboat date. Footage of the console's unboxing and its startup series was posted online — earlier Nintendo ninjas swiftly had it removed.

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