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I wonder how much of the decision was based on proactive care of the users health, and how much was due to a motors overheating issue...
Definitely the latter while the former makes for a cute excuse. Saying “we shipped a flawed product” isn’t going to go over as well as “we’re doing this to protect our customers.”
The controller rumble isn’t continuously rumbling to a point where it is likely to cause damage.
I like how people are very sure Nintendo's shipped a flawed product just based off some random article speculating that the rumble motor MAY overheat... Despite there not even being a motor in the rumble!
Good lord people, it uses a weight on a spring that's magnetically actuated. Stop spreading dumb rumors.
People refer to vibration motors using that phrasing regardless of the actual technology used to achieve the vibration. No one gives a shit that Apple call theirs a Taptic Engine, or that it uses a linear resonant actuator as opposed to something like an offset spinning weight. It is a vibrate motor to 99% of people, even though it doesn't technically have a motor.
While that may be a valid observation, at the end of the day magnetic actuators don't heat up like motors do, so it's actually a pretty relevant difference.