CNET’s Ridiculous Nintendo Switch Attack
Switch falls over when you push it and you might have to cut your fingernails.
Journalists hate Nintendo. It’s probably not because they don’t like the gaming giant, more so that there are so many Nintendo fans out there that slapping together a negative article is a surefire way to easy clicks.
What happens when you don’t have anything substantial to complain about? Nintendo Switch is a console that has the gaming world abuzz. Developers love it, consumers are champing at the bit to get one, and compared to the Wii U the marketing is on point. Journalists are struggling to find things to nit pick about the Switch, but that hasn’t stopped them from coming up with some wild ideas.
Cut Your Fingernails
CNET was first to report on a crippling issue with the Nintendo Switch Joy-Con Straps. The accessory attaches to the Joy-Con controllers and provides a safety wrist strap to prevent the controller from being dropped (or thrown), as well as two larger shoulder buttons to make playing traditional games more comfortable.
Writer Sean Hollister struggled to remove the accessory, applied excessive force and slipped causing his thumbnail to impale his opposite finger. This was all Nintendo’s fault, apparently. The Straps are just too darn hard to remove.
“While the Joy-Con Wrist Strap slides onto a controller fairly easily, we’ve found it frustratingly hard to get it off again on both of our pre-release Nintendo Switch review units. It’s a struggle, and it can break apart suddenly with a lot of force if you pull hard,” he wrote, reminding us he received a review unit.
“There’s also not a lot of surface area to grab it safely — which is probably why my fingernail sliced right into another finger the first time I had to remove them.”
The true culprit was Hollister’s apparent inability to read the included instructions that point out the correct way to disconnect the safety straps is to first disengage the lock switch. Doing so prevents the need to use any force at all. As for the injury, Hollister did offer some advice.
“Perhaps if I’d just cut my fingernails it’d have been less of an issue.”
Perhaps.
Nintendo Switch Kickstand Succumbs to Gravity
Also from CNET was an important Public Service Announcement: Nintendo Switch’s kickstand does not repel the Earth’s gravity!
Sean Hollister pointed out that if you are playing the Nintendo Switch in “tabletop” mode (with the kickstand deployed) the console is likely to fall over if you push on it.
The article was accompanied with a video that walks you through the software bug. In it, Hollister repeatedly sets up (and tries to snap) the kickstand before pushing on the opposite corner with the tenacity of a gorilla as subtitles point out how poorly the Switch handles the brute force attack.
You can almost taste the bottom of the barrel.
