Perpetual Power
Nintendo Switch Features that Still Annoy Us in 2018
The Switch can be like one of those people who you never invite over to your place, who somehow end up always at your front door regardless.
“Hey guys!” the Switch guffaws in a grating tone, “What’re you up to right now??”
The culprit behind this pestering is a curious feature that powers up the Switch whenever it interacts with an AC adaptor. Plug it in? It turns on, eager to share with you its current battery power supply. Unplug it? It still turns on, convinced that this means that you’re ready to play an exciting round of Fortnite, or Kirby Star Allies, or Vroom in the Night Sky — for the Switch does not judge your taste in video games.
This would be all well and good if you had an option to disable this feature, because sometimes all you want to do is charge the damned thing without some elaborate song and dance on each occasion, but this doesn’t appear to be so. Perhaps somewhere deep within the settings, there actually is a preventative measure that nobody knows about, but until it has become common knowledge, we will continue to lambast the Switch for its overzealousness. We’re getting too old for that tomfoolery.
