 Hey everyone, I am Nathaniel Rufflejans from the Center Prime and I'm back in front of a camera because we have a lot of things to talk about this week But today I want to talk to you about something that came across my desk over this past weekend But I kind of let it sit I kind of let it ruminate because I felt like we needed more information and That is I guess what I hate using this term because it really Underestimates or overestimates the impact of Watergate and what it means But for lack of me having zero creativity, we're gonna call this switch Ben gate Now the Nintendo switch has had issues with this launch, right? There have been issues with the left joy cons that Nintendo has Acknowledged it's it's apparently not a defect, but they've acknowledged the thing due to a manufacturing variation remember not a defect So I talked about that in another video, which you can find out a link to down below But they also have had things like the screen scratching from the dock because the screen to selfless plastic and the dock is plastic So plastic on plastic that creates scratches But those are relatively minor issues Nintendo is willing to fix the left joy come one absolutely for free and The screen one to buy a screen protector any old screen protector Whether it's a one of those cheap film ones which aren't very good by the way Or whether you opt for a third-party tempered glass screen protector, which I will link to my own screen protector down in the description as well This bend gate is a little more serious because this can lead to hardware failure, right? When the left joy con isn't working correctly You could still connect it to the system and use it in portable mode and everything works fine and dandy When the screen is scratched you could still play games whether in docked mode or undocked mode. It's just a scratch Bend the gate is where the switch itself is literally bending and What appears to be happening? At least at first glance is that the system is heating up so much that it's causing the plastic and the metal inside of it to physically bend and While this has not actually destroyed any systems as of yet It is something that obviously We're only a month out from launch long haul could be cause for concern and That's the initial reaction red. It was blowing up on this thread on Neil Gaff is blowing up on this and one particular user main name dying heart Posted a response and Granted we have to guess with the grain of salt because we can't confirm or deny whether or not this person has the experience He claims But this is what he does say and that in that is that he is really familiar with the plastic Plastification process that I totally said that wrong by the way And he can say with 100% certainty that the systems that are bent came like this out of the box Now it is entirely possible that this happened because I mean you get the switch you look at it The first thing you're looking for is not the oh is it bent? I mean even the bends that we're seeing are a few millimeters so You know how many of us took the switch out of the box at it now and put it on a flat surface We knew is completely even and level put a level on top of it put a ruler on top of it and actually saw if it was Bent or not when we got the system Now we do know that there are some docks that are bent but they Shouldn't be able to bend your system. I'm saying shunt. I'm not saying can't but based on what I know about plastic It should not actually affect the system anyways So this is what he claims he claims out of the box that it would have been bent and that one of two things occurred Either one the mixture during the fill process was off Causing issues during the cooling process and this causes the integrity issues like thin zones Brittle areas etc. The casing itself on most of these seem to be fine However, so outside of a few cases. I do not think that this is what is causing what we are calling switch bend gate The second possibility is that the cooling process itself if the manufacturer Hastens the cooling process and does not allow for the casing to set before inject before ejection Though a product will most likely warp during my time in the Plastication industry there were QA tests for these type of things So I'm guessing these meet the manufacturers and Nintendo's specifications for retail and he says to add I'm sure the switch casing was giving a hardener during the fill process So while it probably takes around 700 degrees to initially melt It will take much more than that to break down once bonded together after cooling Likely scenario is that the case would burn wouldn't melt due to the additive I highly doubt the switch gets that hot so the dock Somehow molding it as the player is playing is very highly unlikely. I would go as far as to say impossible 100% straight out of the box if the plastic was that pliable while warm I'm sure there would be finger indentations in the back of the switch So he went on to say this back on the third Everything he's saying it seems to line up with how Plastication works, which is how plastic products are made so since everything seems to check out It does seem really highly unlikely that Because the initial claims were that this person had played it basically entirely dock mode and the dock itself was Wasn't 100% like straight, you know, like there was a slight lip on one of the ends Which I looked at my own dock and I think it might be a millimeter off Maybe but if it is it's so slight. I can't really tell with the naked eye but you know some other people's docks are more pronounced and I guess the idea here is that with the system sitting in there running at full capacity Heets up so much it kind of molds to the dock and then there's your bend and all the bends seem to be happening on the right side so another popular theory besides the the dock magically molding the system is that the Plastic is merely being bulged out because the battery itself is overheating and when batteries overheat They often expand when you see batteries that have exploded So you have double a batteries in a controller and they exploded and you see battery acid That's because the battery expanded and then couldn't obviously the metal wasn't built to hold it and it exploded It got too hot So it is possible that that was the case However, the batteries located on the left side of the switch not the right We know that from I fix it tear downs So that means that the fact is the right side having issues not the left that that's not what's happening The battery is not getting overheated and expanded. We also know that the switch itself even at its hottest point based on Testing which the hottest point is right where the fan is because all the heating exhaust goes right there And then the fan blows and cools it blows out the system So that's the hottest point in the whole system that that only reaches. I believe it was something like 50 degrees or 55 degrees Something very reasonable For those who don't know like CPUs and GPUs they thermal throttle at like between 80 and 95 degrees somewhere in there So 50 degrees isn't that bad. It's not even that hot to the touch I've never had my switch personally get that hot to the touch whether it was docked or you know undocked and That's certainly well below what he claims needs to happen for it to even melt, which is 700 degrees So and as he says based on what they would make it harden with it would start on fire before it was no and you can actually test this out if you Shouldn't do this because burning plastic is really bad for the environment But as a kid I did this if you ever throw a piece of plastic Into the fire not not styrofoam, but like actual plastic like if you take You know a plastic chunk off a toy right you throw it into the fire if you watch it'll melt Just ever so slightly and then kind of burst in flames and that's because it's more likely to burst in flames first It's just the process is happening so quickly at once in that fire that it looks like it's happening at the same time But really it started on fire before it started to melt so that again all the stuff is easily verifiable So other people went on to say that you know that this that that can't be right, right? Like there has to be more to this this bend gate Because multiple people are reporting this including some journalists that have backed it up said hey I didn't think it was an issue then I went and looked at my switch and sure enough it is bent So you know this kind of became an issue because the journalists that had review copies of the switch The review units have are backing it up So then Diane Hart went on to say I'm trying to tell you guys that this is not an issue It's purely cosmetic Although depending on the severity it could contribute to scratch screens Obviously if your system is bent and it's putting more pressure onto the plastic when it's sliding in it's gonna cause more scratches to the screen Look at any piece of plastic and it will have some type of warping flashing Expanding etc. As long as they function Nintendo and the manufacturer will pass it and any company will through their QA process The only thing that is not acceptable is a failed integrity test Flashing can be manually removed and I'm sure they have plenty of people for just that Warping and expanding product their machines and dies I'm sure compensate for these very variations in the molding process Although there is a limit to what is acceptable Obviously the thing looks like a moon like a crescent moon We're not gonna send that out to the out to retail I guarantee that this is a byproduct of trying to meet demand fast cooling times possibly improper filling process and not letting the product set Inter-proper environment can cause problems in this case I'm sure they are cutting corners in the cooling process to meet the man which makes sense essentially the quality of the system as we can see with the left joy cons with the Variations in the manufacturing process is held back a little bit so they can produce more of them get about faster and get Out to the public and get it to you and that these defects if you even want to call that are The they're cosmetic. They're not Anything that negative impacts your system the heat of your system is that causing this so chances are Your switch was like this out the gate and I guess the best way if you want to make sure you don't get a bent system because I Personally don't care even if my switch was bent. It is not I checked but even if my switch was bent I Wouldn't really care because I know How plastic works and it's got plastic backing and there's metal underneath that plastic backing and I have not seen any reason To fear that this causes any issues for me personally it's completely overblown and While a serious issue if this was caused by the system itself overheating That's not what's happening so I seen some other people out there like Richard review tech and Select few other youtubers out there Kind of go into detail about how this is a big concerning thing. It's really not and I Every day kind of look for things that might be wrong at Nintendo It might be worth criticizing the switch for because I've been overly positive about the switch And I I almost feel like too positive like there's got to be some negatives besides the fact that they're the next big game Isn't out to the end of this month, but this isn't one of them, right? Like this is at least if from everything I can dig up on my own Based on the details provided by this NeoGaff user. I Cannot find anything that would suggest that this is anything but the way the product arrived to the end user and The bends are so slight. That is something that you wouldn't have noticed out of the box so switch bend gate is Is nothing sorry to say I mean, I guess I'm not sorry to say it's not a good thing like if your switch is bent It's not a big deal Now if you're someone who obviously wants a perfectly flat perfectly straight switch that didn't have you know Maybe some corners cut it manufacturing Obviously the first thing to do is to open up the product at like immediately after you purchase it and look at it And if it's been asked for an immediate exchange If it's not, you know if you do it later, you could try to exchange it But sometimes they might say oh well, how do we know you didn't do that, etc You know the best way to do it is right there in the store right right after you purchase it But it is what it is. I don't have any issues with my switch. I knock on wood Been very fortunate. This is Nathaniel Ruffel chance from Nintendo Prime signing out