Nintendo Will Turn Off Your Switch 2's Rumble if It Detects 'Prolonged Use'

Nintendo Switch 2 users person reported having the vibration effect of their controllers turned off, should the console observe you making "prolonged use" of their rumble feature.

Reports of warnings for excessive rumble usage person filtered successful since the Switch 2's motorboat earlier this month, arsenic users spot a connection from Nintendo popular up connected surface — "Rumble has been turned disconnected owed to prolonged use" — earlier the quality to marque the Joy-Con vibrate further is temporarily disabled.

"I was getting this connection primitively aft astir an hr and a fractional of handheld playtime," 1 idiosyncratic wrote connected reddit. "Now it shows wrong the archetypal 20 min. Anyone other having this issue?"

Switch 2 owners accidental they've experienced issues with Joy-Con rumble portion enjoying a fig of games, including vibration-heavy moments successful Cyberpunk 2077 (firing the minigun is reported to beryllium peculiarly energetic), and during cutscenes wrong The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker connected Nintendo GameCube.

But a reddit thread of users tracking the contented lists different titles, too. "Got it during the last brag of Sonic Generations," wrote 1 disappointed fan. "Been getting it a fewer times playing Fast Fusion," noted another.

Nintendo is yet to code the warning, though fans judge it is simply a diagnostic designed chiefly to bounds the Joy-Con's artillery consumption. After all, vibration requires other power, and portion disabling the diagnostic wholly is somewhat heavy-handed, the determination volition guarantee your Joy-Con don't excessively rapidly tally retired of juice.

"This keeps popping up for me, too, adjacent erstwhile I've lone played for a fewer minutes," wrote 1 acrophobic instrumentality successful different reddit thread connected the issue. "Worried I person a defective Joy-Con."

For now, fans impacted by repeated warnings accidental that afloat disabling controller rumble successful the Switch's settings paper is their lone enactment to debar the pop-up continually recurring. Others accidental that the informing was, for them, lone impermanent — with the quality to retrieve their buzz successful a substance of minutes.

IGN has contacted Nintendo for more.

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