Nintendo Switch 2 owner uncovers method to intentionally crash the system

Did you know that it’s possible to intentionally crash your Nintendo Switch 2? Fans shared that discovery on social media this week and it seemed to gain a lot of interest.

Doing so actually seems to be pretty simple. If you open and close the amiibo screen in the system settings quickly and repeatedly, Nintendo Switch 2 crashes. No one can say at the moment why this happens, but the console doesn’t like something here and forces a restart. After rebooting the system, it’ll thankfully turn back on as if nothing happened – which is what you would want in this situation.

Below is a look at the method in action:

We imagine that with the attention this has been getting over the past few days, Nintendo will come out with a system firmware update to address the issue. The company will likely see it as a bug that needs to be fixed. Nintendo is no stranger to system stability after all.

All of this said, although there doesn’t seem to be any long-term harm, but we can’t really recommend doing this Nintendo Switch 2 crash as there’s nothing to be gained from it.