Let's get ready to rumble - or not, as gamers are worried by Switch 2 disabling Joy-Con rumble

If you've taken the plunge with Nintendo Switch 2, you may have experienced the handheld disabling its rumble effect - and some gamers are complaining that this is happening to them surprisingly often.

IGN picked up on this, as well as plenty of Switch 2 owners on Reddit (like the above person) who are seeing the effect switched off with the following message displayed on-screen: "Rumble has been turned off due to prolonged use."

So, it seems that the idea is that if lots of rumble is coming through with a game, the Switch 2 will proactively turn off the effect - perhaps to save battery. After all, longevity is a priority with handhelds and rumbling the Joy-Con uses power.

Given that, you might expect this to happen after some time into a gaming session, when the battery is starting to be worn down - but apparently it can occur even only minutes into any given game.

Another possibility is that it's a protective measure for the Joy-Con in terms of limiting the heat that might be generated by a lot of constant rumbling. Or it could just be a bug, pure and simple.

Whatever the case, the messages are causing some folks to fret somewhat, especially when they appear early in a gaming session (when heat shouldn't really be a problem, you'd imagine, or battery for that matter).

Take this Redditor for example: "This [message] keeps popping up for me, too, even when I've only played for a few minutes. Worried I have a defective Joy-Con."

It would be good to get some kind of clarification from Nintendo about what's going on here.