Reports, mostly from Japan, suggest the console is freezing, crashing, and spinning up its fans like a jet engine as it desperately tries not to melt.

What’s worse is that it’s not just heavyweight titles like Cyberpunk 2077 pushing the system into thermal panic. Lightweight fluff such as Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma is apparently triggering the same meltdown routines. The fans scream, the screen freezes, and then the system gives up and blacks out.

Western gamers are chiming in with their own horror stories. Reddit user NitroWalrus732 posted: "I've had my Switch 2 display a message saying that the system was overheating and entering sleep mode twice now, both times while playing Tears of the Kingdom Switch 2 Edition docked. I was also running at 2k resolution which probably wasn't helping but this is still worrying. Anybody else experienced this? Wondering if I could have a faulty system or maybe TotK is just that intensive."

If you're having similar thermal fits, the official advice is about as useful as a chocolate heatsink. It is something like clean the air vents, power it off, and pray. If that doesn't work, you'll need to send it back to Nintendo and hope they don’t tell you it’s working as intended.

Despite these teething issues, the Switch 2 is flying off the shelves. Word on the street is that more than five million units have been flogged as of June, though Nintendo has yet to make that figure official.

The company reckons it will ship 15 million units by March 2026, but if the current pace holds, it’ll smash that target without breaking a sweat.Unlike the console.