How tf am I supposed to use this as a vibrator now? wtf Nintendo this is the kinda shit that makes a mfer lose their cool!! 😤there are so many of us how could you do us like this!?!
Nintendo feels a little like Windows where each other release is either skipped or is bad.
Or Star Trek movies.
At least they’re not star wars movies.
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
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…
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.
Rumble has been basically a variant of a traditional speaker in many devices for a while now.
Also it can still heat up, although it might not be as prone to burnout as a motor.
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.
