Say Hello To The Blue Screen of Death
It’s like Christmas for many today as the Nintendo Switch has finally arrived. We are almost 24-hours (Pacific time) into the launch and it looks like we have our first report of a dead Nintendo Switch console and they are calling it the “blue screen of death”.
Reddit user “supportdevil” posted on the Nintendo Switch subreddit to show off his bricked console. “Anyone got the Bluescreen,” is written in the title. In the thread he stated “Already mine died a sec ago.”
This is the image that user attached:
The user goes on to say that he “Played a bit BotW then the Screen went white and the Switch got very noisy then i restarted the Console and now only Blue Screen of Death”. Another user responded by asking him if he tried hard resetting it. To which the supportdevil wrote: “How? i reseted it with holding down Power for 12 sec like on the Website.”
Sorry folks, the spelling and grammar is beyond rough but you get the point.
It appears the user updated their system before playing, and they’ve tried to restart it. But alas it is dead and he has since returned it.
Hopefully, this is a small issue and these kind of reports become an extremely rare thing. It is somewhat of a regular occurrence for a new console to brick upon arrival. This issue, as of now, is small scale. If it gets big, Nintendo has a problem. We’ll follow the news and share with you.
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