Be extra careful with your new console.
  • heythatsprettygood@feddit.ukEnglish
    17·
    17 hours ago

    I don’t get why Nintendo felt the need to hide screws behind stickers, or to glue down the battery so hard. Switch 1 was fairly easy to open up. Hopefully right to repair legislation can force Nintendo into providing official parts and repair guides before Switch 2 batteries start dying.

    • als@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      2·
      7 hours ago

      I think that they personally made it harder so that people would give in and just buying new controllers or consoles instead of doing the repairs themselves or taking them somewhere to get repaired as repair shops will charge more for a longer/more difficult job

      • heythatsprettygood@feddit.ukEnglish
        2·
        7 hours ago

        Potentially. I’m leaning more incompetence/“we always did it this way”/cost cutting rather than malice though, considering Joy Con 2 has a fairly easily repairable design like Joy Con 1. They probably just shoved on a bunch of adhesive for the battery, for example, since it was the most cost effective way to keep the battery from moving about on the go while taking no time in the factory (the only time they care about the assembly). Steam Deck did the same thing (although ROG Ally was smart and actually used screws and brackets to hold its battery down). It’s a lazy and stupid solution, but it is a solution.