It's not, and the joycons are even HARDER to repair due to a piece of plastic glued over a screw on the inside..

I didn't say that, you just made it up so I'm not sure what your point is.

I wasn't talking about the repairability score. I was talking about the title of this article stating that it's "harder" to repair than the Switch 1.

Congrats it's worse! Harder to get to

I honestly don't care how difficult it is,

only if (...) there are any fucking corporate shenanigans that intentionally make it harder.

Verbatim quote ya doofus

Bruh just likes a challenge.

I'm well aware of what I said 2 hours ago, thank you. Is there a point you'd like to make?

Also the personal insults are not warranted.

After the initial excitement I think the Switch 2 is gonna bomb. Offers too little for too much.

Haha when they did that blog post to change the switch from 8/10 to 4/10 saying they don't normally do that but wanted to make sure you could compare the 2 properly against the original, I thought they were making space for the 2 to be above the original, not that they were going to mark it as worse

I implore people to watch the teardown guide itself, which is way more nuanced than the clickbaity The Verge article.

I'm not a fan of the use of glue in the joycon sides and the fact that the color strips under the controllers are hiding screws. The bigger complaint is the battery glue, especially because you can imagine aftermarket parts with bigger capacity could be a thing here. I definitely wouldn't open this thing unless it has a problem.

Some components are still modular, which is nice. I can't imagine the sticks not having changed design is great, but it's entirely possible they're way more durable, which the teardown acknowledges. Keep in mind that, while all controllers can drift, most controllers don't fail that way. It's possible to build this type of stick without widespread issues. Time will tell, though.

Just yesterday I spent 3 hours playing MK8D on my PC. Cozy on my bed and a controller + a remote keyboard.
Felt like the real deal.

Edit: Why the downvotes? Is emulation so frowned upon here?

It's the same joystick design. As the video says that doesn't mean it will have the same issues as frequently, but it does mean it can have the same issues. The question will be at what rate.

Given the coverage I have very low hopes that we will get a good idea of that from the press. Instead I expect the first Switch 2 joycon to drift will be put on an auction sale for every clickbait article to parade in front of people with rotten tomatoes at the ready. Still, it will matter if it's one in two or one in a million.

The point is it is harder because they wanted to make it harder. What one could call "corporate shenanigans"

They could have easily fixed it with hall effect sticks. That is a proven and inexpensive solution, but Nintendo prefers to sell more joycons and create waste, it's that simple.

The guy doing the teardown recommended you wait until a third party company makes a drift proof module to replace the same as last version joystick decoders

Thanks to 3d printing I have litres of isopropyl. What sucks is you probably want to replace the glue since it's there to protect against liquids, and Nintendo don't care to provide a seal kit

You also need to remove stickers to get at the screws

Also you need a security screwdriver (three blade) for those screws

There are no replacement stickers, we wait for iFixit to provide guidance on adhesives

Yeah, it is harder to do. Specifically

• you need to remove stickers in a way that you can replace them, if you want to keep them looking good
• You need to undo glue, iFixit used isopropyl alcohol and force
• Once you're in its fairly easy to replace parts, but Nintendo don't supply parts
• Batteries are glued down, you need to destroy the foam beneath them to get the batteries out, Nintendo don't sell replacement foam, or even a specification for the foam

By being harder it will be more costly to repair

I wonder if Nintendo will ever embrace repairability like some phone companies have

I guess there's more competition in phones than in devices that can run Mario Cart

It's not.

Hall effect sticks probably would have increased the price, and then people would complain about how greedy Nintendo is even more than they do now.

It's always the same story. Whatever they do, it's not good enough or too expensive or whatever. In the end, the thing will be sold out nonetheless.

You're either a troll or a moron, this is the second time I saw you write stupid shit on a post.