Is The Nintendo Switch Waterproof

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Is the Nintendo Switch waterproof?

Because we all want to play video games at the embankment, right?

With how portable the Nintendo Switch console is, it's a fair bet that at least some of yous will take it along on your holidays. Later on all, keeping the kids entertained during traveling is e'er a tricky business.

That portability is a double-edged sword though, making the Switch easy to take to environments that might non be and so hospitable. While we can't say that where you'll go on your holidays will rain as often as Hyrule, one question does come up – is the Nintendo Switch weather-resistant?

Is the Nintendo Switch console waterproof?

Brusque reply: No

nintendo switch edge showing ports and the cooling vent

Paradigm: Nintendo (arrows ours)

I hateful, just await at the prototype in a higher place. See that huge vent? That's the exhaust port for the air that cools the pretty hefty Nvidia flake running the Nintendo Switch. Fifty-fifty if that could be sealed off, you'll just be sealing your Switch'due south death warrant as the oestrus will cook it til it's done.

It'due south almost irrelevant now to mention the 3.5mm headphone jack, the not-really-sealed game cart slot, or the microSD card slot which is completely open to the elements and only barely subconscious by the kickstand on the dorsum.

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Nintendo couldn't have waterproofed the Switch at all, not without irresolute the chip powering it. Then it wouldn't be the console that everyone loves, as whatever chip that would run cool enough to be waterproofed wouldn't be powerful enough to run the games. It'd but be a larger smartphone, limited to smartphone-quality games. Yech.

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