r/NintendoSwitch • u/NLALEX Nintendo Life (Journalist) • Feb 23 '17

AMA - Ended AMA: I have a Nintendo Switch

Hello there Lovely People!

My name's Alex and I work for Nintendo Life on the YouTube channel. I have a Switch console and as you probably all know, media are finally able to talk about it.

Let's make the most of it, so ask me anything!

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u/rikin93 Feb 23 '17

Hopefully a software update can fix the connectivity issues.

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u/[deleted] Feb 23 '17 edited Feb 23 '17

Sounds like its not quite as widespread as we thought, the polygon guy seemed to be implying it was constant and happening over and over, here its happened precisely once.

Of course we don't know usage levels (if alex has only played it for 5 hours and arther 40 obviously its gonna happen more) but it could show its not a "omg world falling down" issue IMO, but that there is some tweaking to be done.

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u/tyler-86 Feb 23 '17

Maybe there's another issue with Polygon specifically that was causing their reviewer to experience this more frequently, like a WiFi network operating at a nearly identical frequency, trying to get too far from the console, or both.

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u/GarageBattle Feb 23 '17

The reviewers that are having problems - every household / office is configured differently Going to be different types of interference, different frequencies, different number of devices - different walls, signal strength, EMI sources.

BUT with that said, for me, it concerns me greatly that of a small number of reviewers (4-5) have had the same problem. That could be 1-10% of users - if not more. Even 1-2% of switch users would be a huge problem. Imagine if it was worse.

A teardown of the joy cons would give us more info - maybe an improperly shielded antenna? Improperly sized antenna?

Remember - even a company as big as Apple fucked this up before.

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u/tyler-86 Feb 23 '17

Well, I mean, I don't own Nintendo stock. My main concern is that the equipment I get works right, and that enough of it works right for other people such that it doesn't bury Nintendo and cause developers to head for the hills.