Topic: Has anyone have issues with the fan on the switch?

I am curious because I read an article last night saying the fan inside the switch will only last for 2-3 years.

I have had no problems with the fan because I had 2 switches that had battery problems that I sent to Nintendo and they replaced it.

On my current switch has no battery or fan issues as of right now.

But when I read that the fan would only last for 2-3 years before it needs replacing I was curious if anyone here had issues where they had the fan replaced.

If you did have fan problems was it the launch switch, switch lite, 2019 dock able switch, or the OLED?

On YouTube theres a handful of switch owners having to replace the fans

@Tay205
Do you have a link to the source? All I can find is random Reddit and quora posts.
I think you are honestly fine.i have had no issues. My brother had his launch switch for four years and he had no problems.

I've my Switch for almost four years and the fan hasn't given me any issues. sometimes the Switch would feel hot but it would cool down quick

@blindsquarel this is where i found the place i send it

https://www.quora.com/How-long-can-you-play-the-Nintendo-Swit...

@fighting_game_player have you seen the message saying the system is getting to hot then it turns off due to overheating?

I never had issues but heard people on YouTube and quroa and reddit saying that the fan will last for 3 years.

I have a good switch that has no issues but sometimes the fan doesn't come on for a while on breath of the wild in hand held but does come on in docked

@Tay205 nope! never seen a message like that, so I figured that it was just "natural" heat from the system

EDIT: though whenever I feel the console getting too hot, I usually turn it off for a while

That quora post is suggesting that the fan will last three years as an assumption of the poster based on experience with computer parts.

Nowhere does it say that it will last three years. The Switch has been around for longer than three years and there doesn't seem to be an outcry about fan failure.

"I have a good switch that has no issues but sometimes the fan doesn't come on for a while on breath of the wild in hand held but does come on in docked"

That's due to the increase in clock speed when docked. It is as it should be.

My original switch’s fan is super loud, but works fine otherwise.

Up next.
How long do the buttons last on the joycons

My original Switch from 2017 is functioning like day one! No loud fan or anything like that. The dumb joycons on the other hand

@CactusMan this need it’s own article. 100% agree

@1UP_MARIO depends how often you press them?

The fan shouldn't be jet engine roar if so there is something wrong. But fans will be loud if you play BOTW portable or Docked that will cause more heating of the system.

@SwitchForce that's good to know. I just want to keep the switch as long as possible. I already have 2 switch consoles with battery issues and didn't want to have a issue with the fan on this switch

@Tay205 make sure to vacuum the vents to remove dust bunnies out as well. And the dirty the locations you use at make sure to clean more often with the Switch Off when you do that.

@SwitchForce I just been using a dry tooth brush to clean the vents. I don't have a vacuum that small to clean it

@Tay205 I know I have a 1HP vacuum with small attachments to help out that's what I use to clean my internals on my gaming Desktop as well.

First of all, it's not true. If it were, we'd have millions of people complaining about it and trying to get Nintendo to replace the fan, and class action lawsuits over it (like with the joycon drifting debacle that's got multiple class action lawsuits about it going on right now in multiple countries, as well as the EU suing and fining Nintendo because of it because it doesn't meet EU consumer protection law standards, and millions of switch owners are complaining about it; and remember, this is for joycons, i.e. the easiest thing to replace on a switch, you can just buy another and attach it to the console and there you go, meanwhile an internal fan breaking would mean either sending it to Nintendo if they agree to fix it, or try to replace it yourself but violating your warranty agreement by opening it up that way, so if it breaks, you have to buy a whole new switch).

Millions of switch owners bought their switch 3, 4, even 5 years ago. In a couple of weeks from now it'll pass the 5 year mark since it was released (March 3rd 2017 was when it came out) and yet there's no evidence of even a single person across the entire world having a problem with the fan and posting about it on the Internet. Surely if it was actually a problem, we'd have thousands or even millions of people around the world complaining about it, as they do with the joycons. So where are the people with fan problems? They don't exist. You've been fooled.

There's always been people throughout the switch's life that bizarrely hate the Switch, and hate that others enjoy it, and so they constantly try to criticise it. And they even invent stuff up, invent problems about it and talk about them on reddit or Quora or wherever. It's easy enough to say "oh I heard from a friend who's a computer hardware engineer that the switch's fan is only rated for 2-3 years". So that way it sounds like it's not THEM making the claim, but an imaginary friend of there's, and because it sounds like a casual conversation, they didn't ask for references and evidence of this claim. Of course, there is no engineer friend, there was no conversation about fans, they just made it up, to make the Switch sound like a worse product.

Usually these people just stick to criticising the graphics. Which is really dumb in this day and age. It's a handheld console. Period. It can plug into a TV, but it's a handheld console. But it can so easily run games from the Xbox 360 era, and even higher, and seriously even just the idea of having a portable handheld 360 is amazing to me. And again in reality it can do way more graohicalkg intensive games than that. But yeah the moaners think it's a home console, not a handheld, and so they say its very weak for a home console. But it's not a home console, it can just plug into a TV if you want. But that doesn't make it a home console. You could plug gameboy games into a SNES to play them on TV, that doesn't make the gameboy a home console. Same deal with the GBA and the attachment to the game cube that let you play GBA games on a TV. So they whine about how bad the graphics are, these people. And then switch owners just all collectively shrug their shoulders and say "so what? The games are great".

Some people are just SOOOO angry at other people enjoying a console. Why does it matter so much to these people? Maybe they made a judgement pre-release that the switch was gonna be bad, but then it turned out to be amazing, but they don't wanna admit they were wrong and so they double down, and invent phantom problems which don't really exist, like this supposed problem with the fan that there's zero evidence for

Anyway, secondly, is the fan constantly on? Like I don't know, so I wonder if the fan is constantly spinning, but just usually slow enough that I can't hear it. The fan in mine only seems to turn on when the room I'm in is hot and I'm playing a graphically intensive game like Bioshock or something. If I play for too long, the fan comes on and is VERY loud. Maybe it spins all the time and it's just that you can't hear it when it's going at low speeds, only when it's at maximum speed. So does anyone know? Is the fan constantly on? I've never got a warning about overheating, or my switch automatically turning off when it gets too hot to prevent damage. But when the fan goes crazy and loud, the switch feels very noticeably hot to touch, I do set the switch down and don't play it for a while, to let it cool down. I go to the home menu and just leave the switch on (so that the fan will still be on to cool it down) and after 10 minutes or so I go back and start playing again. I'm just being overcautious though. You probably don't have to do this to let it cool down, it'll cool down itself

But yeah, hypothetically if these random reddit and quora posts claiming that the fan only lasts 2 or 3 years was true (it's absolutely not true, it's 100% untrue) maybe they were claiming that in terms of the fan being on constantly, the switch constantly plugged in and played with 24 hours a day 7 days a week, and the fan is doing the thing where it spins at max speed which is so loud it drowns out the music and sound effects from the game. Like yeah, if it was constantly spinning at that max speed, and the switch was being played literally every single minute, every single second, without any break at all, for 3 years? I could see it breaking down in that case.

But I've had my switch for over 3 years now, and I can count on one hand the number of times my switch has got so hot that the fan starts spinning really loud and fast. Like, it almost never does that. It's very rare. Helps that I live in a cold country I suppose (UK)

But yeah either way there's no problem with the fan. It's a made up claim. There's no evidence for it at all.

Stop believing everything you read on social media like reddit and Quora

@AnorakJimi good to know. I just hate having all the switch cards I own and in 10+ years from now when Nintendo stops selling the switch or repairing them to have my switch to mess up due to the fan.

I thought it was odd that the post on quroa said 2-3 years.

I am glad that no one has a problem.

I do know the launch units had bending issues where it got overheated and bent the unit.

Glad to know the fan should last a long time

@blindsquarel that's good.

I found a website that says the power button will only last for 3 years before needing a replacement which sounds crazy

I assume people who had their switch since launch has no power button issues either

They also claim the switch console will last for 5 to 10 years

I have wii, ds lite, dsi xl, and new 3ds xl since they launched and I have no issues with them

Is crazy they are saying the power button last for 3 years and the switch will last for 10 years and I have wii and ds systems for over a decade and still works

Here is the link to the source saying that it will last for 10 years
https://retroonly.com/how-many-years-will-the-switch-last-bef...