Topic: Switch casing

"Is your switch casing cracked like mine?"
IMPEACH!

erm... sure you ok?

On topic, I think the issue is rare but have no way to know. I'm curious whether or not people with them live in different climates, have different use cases, use high voltage adapters, have melting batteries, forgot it in the rain once, smoke and gradually fatten up the innards, regularly do a rain dance naked in the back yard and forget to put it in sleep mode then...

Most likely explanation is some cheap chinese watering down of the building materials went just a bit too far during production of some model casings. That's usually the cause of these sort of things without explanation.

Hey I found a cause! it's the CHINESE!

I still want to know if anyone with "separation of the case" has indeed checked for a rounded back or a bulging battery (not recommended to open while in warranty.) Given that I've not had a single Samsung phone that hasn't developed a bulging battery over years, that then bows out the rear case, actually separates the screen from the frame (it bows outward....even a non-"flexible display"), and ultimately presses on the cellular radio or wifi radio and intermittently disables it. Bulging batteries are the bane of modern electronics (and exceedingly dangerous as well) and I can't help but wonder if "warped switch" and "separation of the back panel/powerbutton/cracks" is more often actually the result of building pressure from a bulging battery than actual warping.

Sadly I can't find a single battery maker that ends up not getting bulging batteries. Samsung phones use their own batteries, and a few major Chinese battery mfrs, and one other Korean mfr. Sony seems to have a decent track record on batteries, but I think most of their batteries, other than their seemingly vanishing own products, mostly go into industrial/performance products, since I rarely ever see Sony cells in consumer products, despite them being one of the 3 biggest battery mfrs.

Edit: Then again it was Sony cells that caught fire in the infamous exploding Dell laptop.

@erv ""Is your switch casing cracked like mine?IMPEACH!""
Well something's definitely cracked...

" regularly do a rain dance naked in the back yard and forget to put it in sleep mode then..."
I can verify neither of my two Switches have been been negatively impacted by this.

I wonder if maybe the people with broken switch cases live in colder places.

It could also be a humidity vs temperature problem? I could see how the climate of the room or environment plays a part. It's just speculating for me though.

@NEStalgia lol!

Until this thing came up I thought the Switch was aluminum.

It probably should be though tbh.

@SwitchForce no impeachment can only happen by Congress. Even then, it doesn't seem to matter. Look at Clinton.

Also, just because you don't like who won, does not mean you can impeach the person. Tempertantrums are not a legal precedent.

@Trajan Aluminum would sink the heat right into where the player holds it, and against the rear wall of the dock, and probably mess up the thermal channel of the copper heat pipe too, so that wouldn't really do well. Plus aluminum is subject to dents unless it's thick, and thick aluminum adds a lot of weight. That's why high end but thin & light devices like Surface and higher end SLR cameras are magnesium alloy. IT can be thinner and lighter than plastic, dent resistant, but as strong as plastic. Apple and Samsung go all in on aluminum and glass which actually makes their stuff heavy for the size class.

Edit: But magnesium is also really expensive, well beyond the costs needed for Switch!

Thousands?

Also a lot more expensive.

Wow, a Trump Derangement Syndrome sighting.

Oh, and Trump won't be impeached. He'll happily retire after serving two terms in office.

Firstly, that has nothing to do with the topic. In the least. At all.
Secondly, there's no such thing as 'Voter Consumer Rights' because the US government is not selling you a product. You don't get a refund on votes. The 'Big Business' boogeyman has always lobbied the US government for interests, as have PACs and Foreign Nations, Non-Profits and private citizen groups. A voter does not have the right to impeach a president, it is not a popularity contest. Impeachment also does not equal removal from office. Term limits are present for the office of the Presidency, and other offices are limited only by how many times voters continue to support them. Impeachment also does not equal imprisonment. I don't know bubba, nor his girlfriend, and I intend to restrain myself from finding out.

I have no clue what happened here, but I know it has nothing to do with some casings showing cracks.
GAME OVER. Continue? >YES NO

@SwitchForce
Incoherent ranting much.

It's a colder place here, although not cold enough to get snow where I live. The cracking is faint, a couple of hairlines, but they're similar to some of the cracks that were posted in the NL article.

@shaneoh Just for research sake, I live in an area that’s hot and humid 8 months. But my switch is typically in a house that’s low humidity and at least 75F. No cracks or fissures