Heavy-hitting titles and playing in docked mode seem to be a little too much for some Switch 2 units.
Reports of overheating have surfaced of the highly-anticipated Nintendo Switch 2, which claim that units are suffering from various issues in some popular games.
This issue came to light today thanks to a post at the NintendoSoup fan site. We did our own digging around Reddit and X, however, and the reports seem relatively infrequent, but also consistent ever since the console released. First off, although some users complain about the console forcibly going into sleep mode or even shutting down when playing graphically-intensive titles like Cyberpunk 2077 in hand-held mode, the most common element actually seems to be playing with the console in docked mode. This makes a measure of sense, as using the docked mode pushes the Switch 2 a lot harder due to higher resolutions, refresh rate, or both.
Our searches indicate that said complaints of high temperatures in docked mode are by far the most numerous and consistent.
