Nintendo recently warned Switch owners that failing to charge their consoles regularly (in this case, at least every six months or so) could impact battery life. It’s an easy problem to avoid—if you somehow aren’t using it enough to drain the battery, just make sure you charge your Switch or Switch Lite twice a year or so—but it’s not unique to Nintendo’s hardware.
Every gadget with a rechargeable battery needs to be periodically juiced up to avoid a myriad of problems, even the ones you only use once in a while.
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Nintendo recently warned Switch owners that failing to charge their consoles regularly (in this case, at least every six months or so) could impact battery life. It’s an easy problem to avoid—if you somehow aren’t using it enough to drain the battery, just make sure you charge your Switch or Switch Lite twice a year or so—but it’s not unique to Nintendo’s hardware.