Nintendo Switch 2 customers have reported having the vibration impact of their controllers turned off, ought to the console detect you making “extended use” of their rumble characteristic.
Stories of warnings for extreme rumble use have filtered in for the reason that Switch 2’s launch earlier this month, as customers see a message from Nintendo pop up on display screen — “Rumble has been turned off as a result of extended use” — earlier than the flexibility to make the Pleasure-Con vibrate additional is briefly disabled.
“I used to be getting this message initially after about an hour and a half of handheld playtime,” one consumer wrote on reddit. “Now it reveals throughout the first 20 min. Anybody else having this subject?”
Switch 2 homeowners say they’ve skilled points with Pleasure-Con rumble whereas having fun with a lot of video games, together with vibration-heavy moments in Cyberpunk 2077 (firing the minigun is reported to be significantly energetic), and through cutscenes inside The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker on Nintendo GameCube.
However a reddit thread of customers monitoring the problem lists different titles, too. “Acquired it throughout the ultimate boss of Sonic Generations,” wrote one dissatisfied fan. “Been getting it a number of occasions enjoying Quick Fusion,” famous one other.
Nintendo is but to deal with the warning, although followers consider it’s a characteristic designed primarily to restrict the Pleasure-Con’s battery consumption. In spite of everything, vibration requires further energy, and whereas disabling the characteristic completely is considerably heavy-handed, the transfer will guarantee your Pleasure-Con do not too shortly run out of juice.
“This retains popping up for me, too, even after I’ve solely performed for a couple of minutes,” wrote one involved fan in one other reddit thread on the problem. “Frightened I’ve a faulty Pleasure-Con.”
For now, followers impacted by repeated warnings say that absolutely disabling controller rumble within the Switch’s settings menu is their solely choice to keep away from the pop-up frequently recurring. Others say that the warning was, for them, solely momentary — with the flexibility to recuperate their buzz in a matter of minutes.
IGN has contacted Nintendo for extra.
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