ErableEreinte

Do you have any sources for those bricked consoles you’ve heard of?
I’ve heard of a recent update to their ToS, where people have mentioned the possibility of Nintendo bricking consoles, but haven’t actually seen any examples.

It’s exaggerated alright, but Nintendo first-party titles very rarely go on sale and when they do, savings are lower than other manufacturers’ first-party titles.

As an example, BotW is at around 35% discount a couple times a year on average (although it wasn’t on sale at all for around two years, 2020-22).
In comparison, on Sony’s side, Demon’s Souls is at around 55% discount these days when it’s on sale every couple months or so. And yes, that’s technically a second-party title, but I feel it’s more relevant to compare launch games in this instance.
Even Sony is becoming greedy with its own published games not getting huge sales like they used to.

Interesting!
I could only find limited info about the SoC’s TjMax / operating temperatures, although we could assume it’s somewhat similar to the actual Tegra X1, in which case:

• This datasheet lists a TjMax of 105°C (page 2) and several thresholds before that (page 17) at which the APU would downclock (or shut down), with no actual value unfortunately.
• Gamers Nexus talks about the above, with a supposed throttling threshold at 70°C - and possibly 90°C - where frequency drops by 6%.
• Digital Foundry made a video testing Switch overclocking years ago (apologies for the ResetEra link, but there’s a good summary there), where they had operating temperatures in the 60s (though I’m not sure that’s the junction temperature).

That being said, my (V1) Switch is modded so I could test that a bit more, and check operating temperatures and frequencies before/after a repaste.