My Nintendo Switch Isn’t Working - Any Ideas

[Icebot]

I was going to play a Nintendo Switch game but I’m suddenly not able to turn the system on, whether I push the power button or plug it in and now I can’t access anything on it. Does anyone have any ideas how I can get it to work?

[CyberCubed]

Is your docking station to recharge it plug in? If you can't figure it out you should call one of Nintendo's help hotlines and they'll walk you through it.

[neatoman]

Take it to a repair centre?

[Powder]

Make sure it's plugged in for a little while just to catch a bit of a charge, then try to do a hard reset by holding down the power button for fifteen seconds. Happened to me once, that worked.

[Icebot]

Thanks everyone! You were right Powder, I plugged it in to charge and held the power button for 15 seconds, it started coming on after about 10 seconds. Now it’s charged at about 15%. I think devices can drain their power even when we don’t use them, that happened with my iPhone a couple times and of course that made me extra careful. I appreciate everyone’s help.

[Powder]

Hell yeah! Happy to hear it helped. The Switch is a really fun console, I know I'd be really bummed without mine.