It may seem like an odd concept to many but one Nintendo fan decided to take a thermal imaging infrared camera to a hands-on event and capture just how hot the Nintendo Switch console gets. The event was held in Sweden and Imgur user throwmeawaywouldyoukindly kindly uploaded his findings to his page.
The general consensus and what should be taken away from the images is that the Switch doesn’t get hot with average temperatures hovering around the 21-25 celsiuis range . Not surprising as Nintendo expect players to hold the console in their hands.
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Definitely due to the fan and its relatively huge heat sink.
That’s why.
Oh, but why isn’t the Switch 8 times more powerful than the PS4 Pro? I don’t mind wearing oven mitts when I play it…..
lol
Awesome new avatar!
Don’t really know how hot that will get. But I don’t like my electronics to be warm… It seriously bothers me when my phone gets warm. But let’s hope it won’t be such a big issue. And I’ll probably also use it docked so yeah. Even if it gets too hot for my taste..
Thanks :)
hmm…good to know.
Good- if your system touts the idea of having console-level experiences on something that can go literally anywhere, it cannot be susceptible to overheating.
Nice to know, then again every handheld I’ve ever had was relatively cool to the touch but I was sort of worried since every phone and tabled I’ve ever had had the ability to become a makeshift grill with so much heat.
Ah so it won’t get hot like the cell phones that people used to charged with. How cool can it gets. Also love the article you did there. NintenMau5 ☺
Wow… seriously that is an achievement to keep it that cool
Do some research before posting this bullshit, or at least use your brain! This is nothing but a cheap smart phone app! You can even see the outlines of what is displayed on the screen, that wouldn’t be the case with a real IR camera, as different pixel colors have no impact on temperature! This is nothing but a cheap filter effect applied to a normal video!
You can even try this out online, if you wish.
http://www.fotoefeitos.com/efectos/grandes/thermography_photo_effect.jpg
http://www.flir.com/flirone/content/?id=81730
Two seconds of Google using the overlay you’re whining about. The outlines are a bonus ‘extracted detail’ mode of this type of camera.
Well he’s using a cats60 phone with a flir camera that is marketed as a thermal imaging phone and is basically built around that. How good the phone is at its job is a whole other story but it’s not just an app
That may be true, and maybe it is a fake, but just because you know how it could be fabricated, doesn’t mean the author was lazy.
I think it looks odd also. a close look makes it strange, if not impossible to be true, but don’t go ape shit on the author, he didn’t make it and if it’s 100℅ fake, state your spice.
I got nothin against you AT ALL, I just don’t like people jumping at MNN authors without a damned good excuse. :)
An IR image would be very susceptible to how the console was held prior the pic. there is a lot that could skew the heat data. So it could be fake, or it could be taken at a time where it was handled just before the pic. regardless, I agree something isn’t right with the pic.
But I think it’s rediculous to think it’s Darth Maul’s fault. :)
Well, that explains why the right Joycon is so hot while the left Joycon is cold. It all makes sense when you point that out.
The Ice Cube Demonstration makes sense now.
its colder than the average day of where i live…cool
Why is the right JoyCon the hottest part?
it looks to be fake.
Or inaccurate due to what part of the console was held before the pic.
Well it does appear to be an actual infrared camera but the results are a little strange. Obviously, the JoyCon shouldn’t consistently be the hottest part and I would kind of expect to see something indicative of the airflow in these images.
I can’t get used to calling the handheld portion of the Switch a “console”. Because I’ve never referred to past handhelds as consoles. I always called them “systems”.