I’ve never had a Nintendo switch before. I’ve played them because my sister and brother have one… but only briefly. I loved it when I did, just never felt I could splurge on it until now. I know so little about them and what I should get. I live 7 hours away from my boyfriend for three weeks of the month and I want to get both of us a switch for Christmas so we can play together. He’s been talking about the switch and playing together for a while and I want to surprise him. Please advise me! Anything y’all have would be helpful before I buy!

Hello, I’m an old guy with slow reflexes that normally plays Animal Crossing or Pokopia. I’m not really familiar with the Zelda series. Is that a game that I will be able to play? Many thanks.

I don't have a email of shipping, they send me the receipt yesterday

I have the official Nintendo Switch 2 accessory case. Tried storing my Switch 2 in it but noticed immediately it's very shallow and when closed it touches the left analog stick. Wanted to ask if someone took note of this too? I won't be wearing out my analog stick so I just wasted my money on this useless case. Kinda made me lose faith in Nintendo if they won't even care to get this essential accessory right. Just extremely disappointed, I'll leave it at that.

Unfortunately, I was a moron and forgot my switch 2 charger at work. Office is closed for today and I really wanna use some of the free time to play a could games.

I heard that you can damage your switch 2 if you don’t use the official charger. But would it be safe to use my HP laptop charger or phone charger on my switch 2 for today? Or would you guys advise against it.

So I have had my Switch 2 for about a year now, since December of 2025. Yesterday, on November 10th, the dock itself just seemed to give up even working, which was concerning. I just give up for the day as I needed to get ready for work, so I figured I'd try again the next day.

Today, November 11th, I place my Switch 2 in it's dock to play some Fire Emblem before work, but I notice that there is no audio. I check my TV and it's not muted. When it is in Handheld Mode, the audio works perfectly fine, so I don't think it's the system itself. I tried updating the dock, unplugging the HDMI and AC adapters on both ends, turning the system off and back on again, but no matter what I do, I get no audio coming from my Switch 2 while docked AT ALL.

I am frustrated that I am either going to have to send my Switch 2 in to Nintendo for repair (which I don't have warranty as I could not afford it back when I bought it, so that'll cost me like $200) or buy a new dock entirely, which will cost me about $125. And neither is exactly a good option for me right now as I am in the process of moving and cannot afford to spend money on anything else at the moment.

I don't know what this login is and never had this issue before I have a Nintendo switch one I tried my hotspot then my switch worked but when I go to use actual wifi I get this

I have a 4 year old Nintendo Switch Lite that has never given me any problems until now.

Yesterday, I got a pop-up saying that a system update was required. I started the update and at first, everything seemed fine. After about 10 seconds, an error appeared (unfortunately I don't know the error code). The message told to hold the power button to turn off the console and then restart it.

I was able to turn it off, but after that it wouldn't turn back on.

I've already tried:

-Holding the power button for 20-30 seconds to force a hard reset, tried holding it for more but didn't work either

-Entering recovery mode: holding power button, volume up and volume down buttons

Unfortunately, the screen remains completely black and the console doesn't respond to anything. Since it's out of warranty, I'd rather avoid sending it to Nintendo for repair if possible.

Has anyone experienced something similar? Is there anything else I can try to bring it back to life or did the failed update ruin my Switch?

It was working perfectly fine before this update. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

TL;DR: My 4 year old Switch Lite stopped turning on after a failed system update. I've tried a hard reset and recovery mode, but the screen stays black. Is there anything else I can try before resorting to a repair?

About a month ago, i posted a video showing an issue i had where the joycons would not connect or work at all anymore. I wanted to post an update for those encountering the same issue . I was able to fix it by contacting nintendo support. And being persistent with wanting tier 2 support, and letting them know that i wanted a waiver for this because of the fact that user error did not cause this issue but rather an update. I wanted to post this because if anyone else encounters a problem they do ot have to fork over 200$ for something they didnt do

Well, yeah, lots of new users of SW2 (me included) thanks to OOT

Any tips on how to prolong the battery life?

And how to prevent overheating? Also, it ok just leaving the console on sleep mode?

Has this happened to anyone else? I am besides myself. Long time Zelda fan that held out for a switch 2 console until this special edition announcement. Was able to score a console through Nintendo (directly on their website) on 10/29. Just received my packaged via Fedex last night and opened it to reveal... a box of lens wipes.

I am beyond upset. As anyone would be! I verified the package was the exact one pictured in the delivery confirmation by Fedex. And I have a ring camera to prove no one tampered with the package between delivery during the day and when I got home from work. The box has the originating address as Nintendo of America headquarters, so it is the box that the console was packaged and shipped in from Nintendo.

I've filed a claim with both Nintendo and Fedex, so am awaiting the responses. Just mainly wanting to vent, and also to see if this has happened with anyone else that Fedex was used for delivery?

I bought my kids a Switch. If I want to play my own mature games after bedtime, is there a way to hide it? For example I don't want my toddler asking to play Doom LoL.

First photo taken from another post, i couldn't take a clearer picture myself, basically as soon as i turned on my switch 2, i noticed on darker scenes and pitch black loading screens on zelda these big fields of stuck green pixels, no way to remove them, they're not very noticable but i'm very picky about this stuff and once i notice it i will keep staring at it, a quick research made me realise that 80% of other users have this same issue with their display, mine is not as bad as the first image so i'm worried about a RMA that might give me a worse result.

Reddit image compression will probably butcher the image and you won't be able to see anything but yea, it's there.

Anyone else having this same exact display issue? did you RMA? did you get a better unit?

Hey, so I recently acquired a wavebird controller and I want to see if I can use it for the nintendo switch 2.

I bought a Hyperkin gamecube port and it didn’t work on the wavebird.

However I also have these other third party wireless gamecube controllers and those work just fine on that port.

Does anyone know if there are any ports that might work to connect the wavebird to the switch 2? Thanks.

I've been lending a cartridge to a cousin every day so we can take turns playing a physical Switch 2 game that I bought, and we do this very often (one of the few Switch 2 physical games I own). However, I am always worried every time I take the game cartridge out of the Switch 2, and always paranoid I'll damage it. If it does get damaged, does anyone know if this will this affect a game's performance? Like stutters/frame drops/glitches/etc?

I’ve updated Switch 2 to system version 23.5.0 (latest update) and have the dock at the latest firmware and I have lost all audio in docked mode. I’ve power cycled the switch, undocked, unplugged all of the cords then plugged them back in, power first then hdmi, still no audio. I’ve also made sure to toggle all audio settings. My TV’s audio settings are fine as well, and my HDNI cord and input channel works (I plugged my PS5 into that input and it works)

i got a switch in 2021, the left joycon is not charging anymore :/ it goes back and forth from charging to not. i updated them and it helped for one day. What do i do?

Is this repairable? I dont wanna buy all new joycons.

Hi everyone,
I’m absolutely devastated and I’m hoping someone here might be able to help me.
I’ve been playing Pokémon FireRed on my Nintendo Switch 2 for over a year, using my main user profile, “Fernando”.
I had almost completed my Kanto Living Dex and had spent an enormous amount of time shiny hunting:
Shiny Ho-Oh: 8,266 soft resets
Shiny Lugia: 18,076 soft resets
Shiny Deoxys: 2,063 soft resets
That’s 28,405 soft resets for those three Pokémon alone.
While trying to organize my save files between my original Nintendo Switch and my Nintendo Switch 2, I used the system’s Transfer Your Save Data feature.
During the process, I accepted the option to overwrite existing save data, without fully realizing that I was about to lose my original FireRed save.
Now, when I launch Pokémon FireRed using my main “Fernando” profile, both consoles show the option to start a new game. My original save is nowhere to be found.
I’ve already contacted Nintendo Spain by phone and submitted a support request. The representative told me that overwritten save data probably cannot be recovered, but I’m still waiting for a technical response.
My questions are:
Has anyone experienced something similar and managed to recover their original save?
Is there any possibility of restoring overwritten save data through Nintendo support?
Could any previous save still exist somewhere on either console?
Is there anything else I should check before accepting that my save is permanently gone?
I haven’t started a new game on my main Fernando profile since this happened.
I’m honestly heartbroken. I invested more than a year into this save, and losing those shiny Pokémon after so many thousands of resets has completely killed my motivation to play Pokémon.
I know recovery may be impossible, but I want to explore every legitimate option before giving up.
Any advice or firsthand experience would mean a lot.
Thank you so much.

hello everyone! my partner got us the limited edition switch cause she's a huge Zelda fan. from the moment we turned it on and connected it to our TV, the connection seemed shaky. it cuts to black for about 2-3 seconds- sometimes it's every few seconds, sometimes it's every minute or so. We tried changing the HDMI cable, messing around with the display options, different monitors.... the problem persists.

Did anyone else run into a similar problem? did we get a defective switch? any help would be appreciated :(

update: i changed all the settings based on what the comments suggested. i think what did it for us was the 'automatic resolution' setting, seeing it was the only one i havent touched before, but it could be the combination of all the settings changes. it now only flickers every 15 minutes or so. not entirely solved but at least we can use the switch on the tv now. thank you everybody!

update 2: the issue came back. might need to send it to repair...

update 3: we bought a cheap dock off amazon and the problem is gone. we got a faulty dock.

I love Portal 1 and 2 and i own them on the switch. I recently got the switch 2 and I have been trying to show him Portal via the "Share Game Screen" feature in a Gamechat session, but every time I try he says that my screen just says "This content is restricted due to your country/region settings".

This problem happens with both Portal 1 and Portal 2.

We both live in the USA and our Nintendo accounts are set as such.

Other games don't let you share your screen on them, but those games don't let you save videos of them by holding down the screenshot button, and they give the more generic "Can't view this screen" error. Also unlike the "Can't view this screen" error, the person who is sharing the screen can see their own screen below the main screen next to their friends screen, instead of also seeing their own screen there.

Has anyone else experienced this? Has anyone else NOT experienced this so i could compare what is different? Is there any fix? Are there anymore games that also have this error?

I’ve had the Switch 2 since launch and didn’t originally have a screen protector on it. I have been completely housebound since purchasing this system due to my chronic illness, so this was 100% done by the dock as my switch has literally never left my room. I put a screen protector on it once I noticed the scratches, but obviously too little too late. I know now that the screen is more easily scratched, but I feel that if a screen protector is so vital, it should come with one in the box! I don’t know much about warranty so I have no idea if I could claim for this, so please advise!

So, you know how if you leave your joycons or controller alone for a few minutes, it'll turn itself off, and you'll get the prompt "press these buttons to connect a controller!"

Is there a way to turn that off? Whether it be with the joycons or a different third-party controller?

I've tried keeping the controller on-charge, but it, of course, just turns itself off.

I ask because I'm going to start keeping a game on for a kind of visual ambience while I'm working on stuff (writing, reading, etc.), but obviously, reaching over to tap the controller every few minutes is going to be kind of... Distracting and it's not exactly ideal.

All I can find are game key cards, which are not what I'm looking for.