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iFixit says the Switch 2 is even harder to repair than the original (www.theverge.com)

submitted 3 days ago by neme@lemm.ee to c/nintendo@lemmy.world

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[–] brsrklf@jlai.lu 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Weird. It certainly could be better, but the Switch wasn't that hard to fix I'd say. I mean, if it was, I wouldn't have been able to do it. I have quite a few dead electronic devices lying around that I probably broke more than they were originally.

On my switch I changed a SD card drive and the fan, and that required unmounting quite a bit of it. I was very slow at it, but it's more annoying than hard. Mostly solder-less with just a lot of screws and pins locked in with small levers.

Also I opened lots of joycons, and while it's not hard, yeah fuck those flimsy pieces of shit. Of course I changed sticks a lot (with other shitty sticks, Hall effect joycon sticks weren't a thing yet) and changed a couple rails, those tend to fail too.

[–] heythatsprettygood@feddit.uk 2 points 1 day ago

Joy Con 1 is a design disaster internally. I really question how they managed to get past testing sometimes. The original board on the right Joy Con that came with my Switch was so poorly made they even forgot to fully solder in the R button, causing it to literally fall off during disassembly. As a parting gift, the casing plastics developed a crack around one of the screw holes, causing the screw to no longer go in properly. I had to hack together a shell from a parts Joy Con I bought, since it was a special Smash edition Joy Con that I couldn't get a new replacement of.

[–] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Yeah, I don't do electronic repair like that, but the videos I saw didn't look super difficult like you had to unglue 14 things to get inside.