Hearing fan spinning on my Switch, normal?

Is it spinning loudly when you start a game? If yes that's normal

Martin said:

Is it spinning loudly when you start a game? If yes that's normal

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This. When I boot a game up on mine it is pretty loud on launch, then goes quiet unless the unit gets warm.

Panther2103 said:

This. When I boot a game up on mine it is pretty loud on launch, then goes quiet unless the unit gets warm.

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Yup. I think you're fine, OP.

Mine does exactly the same... It's normal.

I remember GameXplain talking about this during the launch of the Switch... it can be normal for some games like BOTW or Mario Kart 8, and you will feel the Switch get warmer in your hands too

Yeah it's normal, I get caught off guard sometimes when I hear it during a silent loading screen or something.

Some games can make it whistle

HF2014 said:

iv notice something lately, when i pick up my Switch after a long break ( coming back from work, morning when i wake up ) i can hear the fan of the Switch, spinning like for 2 minutes. It goes off and never happen to hear them when playing. Is this normal?

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I noticed this the other day when checking out the Mega Man 11 demo... I had headphones on and could still hear the fans! I was concerned at first as I've never experienced this before... it took a few minutes but they settled down. I played another game after the MM11 demo and fans were fine... it's a bit curious though...

I've never heard the Switch fan, doesn't sound normal to me.

I've had the fans go super super loud before to ridiculous levels just randomly. It has happened maybe 4 times total since the launch of the switch. I "fix" it by just putting the system in standby mode. When I return to game it's all fixed for whatever reason.

I've had two. In handheld I typically would hear them around startup / wakeup, but they'd slacken during play.

Yes, normal. Though it shouldn't be loud enough to overshadow a moderate game sound volume.

Mine is spinning audibly from time to time, but nothing really distracting, very quiet in fact. It's not like my PS4 Pro in God of War :P