But their not stuck? at 5.47min in the video a kid explains how to dislodge them safely.

So if someone uses a hammer to pound in a screw because they're too lazy to figure simple shit out, does that make it the fault of the screw makers for not making it work with hammers without getting stuck?
NO!
Good lord, if someone does something the wrong way, then of course bad shit's gonna result.
This isn't a perfect little fantasy world where being unobservant will not lead to bad things happening.
Blaming a company for not taking our own mistakes into account is the HEIGHT of stretch logic.
Nintendo shouldn't need to baby us just to get us to put a wrist strap on right-side-up.XD

wonderfulmonkeyman:

i cannot believe i just read what you wrote!!!!
So every defect system is owner's own fault? Because he broke it? Or because he bought it?
WOW

It's just poor design.

"hurrr, so if someone mashes a knife into their eyeballs because it didn't say not too on the knife packaging, durrr"!!!

It's not the same guys. Nintendo provide products aimed at children and casual gamers. They need to be sturdier than this. There's no point in defending it, we'll only end up with more shoddy crap in the future.

@wonderfulmonkeyman....are you fing serious? its user s fault that the Dock scratches the Screen ??? ..... i said it again people must punish Nintnedo HARD for this mockery of a console they brought out, by boycotting the cosole ..

....are you being serious right now?

Since when do we neglect personal accountability? Using your logic, if I buy a console and play it while it's in a cubby in my entertainment system, it might overheat. Is it the company's fault for making it that, if placed in an enclosed space, it will overheat, or mine for not using a little common sense?

There are pretty noticeable slider bars on the side of the joy-cons to guide you. You might know that if you owned one.

In both of those cases, we're looking at consumer error. How you blame Nintendo for that is beyond me. Give me a break.

I agree it's nintendo fault and is a flaw. But they are not stuck. I was able to just rip them off, but i had to use a bit of force.

@Stillmatic0121

"If you damage your switch your an idiot,"

You don't say....

ninsigma

You are wasting your time with these people. You criticise the tiniest thing then you are suddenly a Nintendo hater and automatically want them to fail.

It's called tough love people, you don't falsely praise someone as it gives off the wrong impression and they'll never learn. Be tough, be a little mean and hopefully that will make them strive to become better where everyone wins in the end.

@MVGeneral - If your looking for good examples of poor design, the power cable input on the PS Vita would be one. It can get pushed in in two different ways, with one of those ways having the potential of bricking the console.

The only safeguard in that instance is that the power lead has a PlayStation logo on one side and not the other. Very bad design flaw

Like it or not neon rdr this system is for kids. Watch the commercial who's playing kids. Now if your an adult and play great but it's for kids. They make mistakes and too expect this not to happen is poor design when it could have been easily avoided by making the rails slightly different in width.

I'm starting to think about a name change... back when it was called NX, I really thought this is going to be it - finally a proper Nintendo console. Now they've yet again taken the gimmick route with hopes to land another Wii-like smash hit. However if I would've been working there I wouldn't have believed in this project from the start. The Switch is not what gamers want, not even what parents would want. It's some kind of strangely mutated handheld with no real chance of success. Why can't Nintendo just make a normal gaming console...? I will never understand this.

This reminds me of the Samsung Note 5 S pen issue. Common sense says the pen only goes in one way. But the pen would fit in backwards and was stuck if you put it in that way. At what point can companies hold customers responsible for following instructions (or lack of following them)? The strap literally says this way up, does it fit the other way, yeah to an extent. But this isn't on Nintendo. It's not like the stars only work one way and they didn't label it.

Nintendo shouldn't have to treat us like children? No but system should be better designed for these kind of situations since they design the system which children in mind more so than Sony Microsoft.

Nintendo definitely skew much younger. And anyone who has kids or spends time with them know they don't always put things in the right way so to speak. This is just bad design no excuse.

Nintendo can't fix stupid, so no, it's not thier fault.

So focused on the poor design of the s straps. What about the fact this video s made after a weekend of release 12 plus minutes of hardware, design and software fails. That alot the wrist straps is one of MANY design flaws lets talk about THAT. It appears most Ninty fans will exalt anything the big N spits out. And it's ok and worth defending on t that aspect. No Nintendo system launched this FD up.

@neonridr
Wrong example. The example would be a cup of coffee handed to you and the lid pops off because you grabbed it wrong. It's a design flaw, not a user flaw. These things should be tested before being produced.

Why put on the straps for something that light? Don't people have common sense 😂😂

Damn... my neo geo X works better than these.

When you have a product that is going to have kids using it, you have to account for people doing things they shouldn't do, plus it's a consumer level product, and you can never assume the user is not going to do something stupid.

While it is the users fault IMO, a simple jut of plastic could have kept it from going on upside down. That's a design flaw. One of many which seem to be pervasive with the Switch, with the dock being the most glaring.

Do you Nintendo fans not realize it's OK to admit that there are design flaws, and they should be called out. It's not like new consoles don't usually have at least one or two somewhere. PS4 had that eject button issue. PSVR had the lack of HDR passthrough. Xbox One had Kinect. It's just par for the course.

It's likely something is going to get a class action if Nintendo doesn't address it, so might as well be on the side of the consumer instead of on the backside of Nintendo.

@Neonridr,
Yes there are plus and minus indicator. Batteries also have plus and minus indicators, but yet people will sometime put them on wrong. We all make mistakes, but we shouldnt be punished for them if the mistake is a minor mistake. Putting a strap backward is not an indication of how stupid you are, it just show that the smartest person can make mistakes.

@kayoss well said. Wether you like it or not the switch is aimed at kids. If your an adult and still play great but it is aimed at kids. Watch their commercial who is playing kids. You don't think that while they are quickly changing that they may not make a mistake? Horribly designed

@Neonridr
You really suck at defending Nintendo. I don't blame you, it's hard to defend BS.

Wrong! It's like a USB connector. It only goes in one way. Why? So there's no confusion. This slider thing is poorly designed by Nintendo. We're talking about a system that put a stand on their Tablet and put the charger cable below the Tablet. I mean, you can't make this stuff up. lol! WTF was Nintendo thinking? The Switch feels like it was rushed to market and corners were cut to make it cheaper to produce. All you have to do is tear down the Switch and you'll see inside how low grade and simplistic it really is...

wonderfulmonkeyman You're embarrassing yourself. It is a design fault that was staring Nintendo in the face. Most companies who make hardware test for things like this and then fix the issue BEFORE the hardware is released. This just goes to show that the Switch was thrown out of the door and could probably have done with another 6 months.

You're talking about people not being observant. How about Nintendo. They weren't observant enough to notice these problems, and people are dropping £300 on these things. Not good enough.

Wonderfulmonkeyman
You're an idiot
The fact that this happens at all to countless adults and god knows how many children, should just prove to you and anyone with half a brain that this is a serious design flaw.
And then there is all the other technical errors and failures of the switch on top of everything else.

You are the ultimate fanboy defending such garbage... get a life

@wonder- your post is one of the saddest things I've read in a long time.

the extreme denial that you're under in regards to what this company does is baffling, no one's asking you to hate the company or hate Zelda or anything like that but you just need to seriously acknowledge when there is a fault.

I mean the video was right there are you seriously denying that all these people do not deserve their money back regarding these issues? I believe if you pay a company money for product that product should work the way they've stated it should.

If you put it in the dock carefully and don't jam it in like these idiots have, you'll be fine.

wheresmymonkey

You'd think that the company developing the hardware and coming up with this 'original' idea would make sure that the screen WOULDN'T scratch AT ALL when put into its OWN DOCKING STATION. You know, the station the entire console is developed around. No matter how hard you put it in (hehe).

I have seen people defend a lot of things in gaming, but this is one of the most flabberghasting. It's almost as bad as when people tried to defend Xbox 360 disc drives scratching disks.

I've had a single screen protector on my launch vita, wind waker wii u and 3ds xl, neither has any bubbles or particles trapped and both look new with no scratches.

Of course I have one on my phone, again only one protector ever, and it does have a few blemishes but that's because it's always in my pocket.

Not sure why you hate screen protectors. Forgot to mention none of my screen protectors are made of glass, and they still look perfect.

Since the Switch doubles as a handheld, you should treat it in the same way you treat a mobile phone or even a tablet.In other words, spend the small amount of money to make sure you keep the Switch's screen looking good.

@ps360s

Getting a screen protector for a TV is overkill since it is very unlikely you would throw something at your screen unless it was a Wii Mote because you forgot to put the wrist strap on. 😉

Jokes aside you should always clean a TV screen since over time they do get dust and dirt on them with a good cleaner solution (ie. lens cleaner) and a microfibre cloth.

I agree MVGeneral.

I remember when I escaped the dangerous captivity of unwavering Nintendo loyalty. It was around the time I walked into a shop and saw shelves and shelves of shovelware for the Wii. It was buying a Wii U and realising I had been suckered in to buying a glorified experiment with seemingly no long term plan behind it. It was playing that atrocious excuse for a Starfox game (this one hurt the most).

And now they have released a console that only has one game on it (unless you want to play Just Dance). I know Zelda is very good (the leaf swords in particular), but what if it wasn't? Or did Nintendo release the Switch now because they saw that Zelda was very good and it would help them shift units. I wonder if the Switch would be out yet if circumstances were different and Zelda wasn't there to carry it along on its shoulders. I wonder how many will dodge the bullet of new hardware and simply stick to playing it on the Wii U (which I have done).

I have many questions as something feels very 'undercooked' when it comes to the Switch, and I refuse to be suckered in by one of Nintendo's flights of fancy again.

I know right, who goes out and buys a product from a company that makes stuff that they enjoy, especially a product with so many exaggerated problems.

@EddieNX
You lost all credibility. Nobody takes you serious.

Serious question, if its a complete piece of garbage is it still the best handheld ever?

That is a great list. The question is, what are you going to do with it? Have you sent it to Nintendo as feedback to help them improve their product? Or something else?

@ikomrad
I believe Nintendo is already aware of all of these issues by now. Reggie is addressing the problems. So I don't need to send anything their way.

http://nintendoeverything.c...