Look inside the Nintendo Switch 2 with the console’s first teardown

Disassembling the Switch 2 doesn’t look overly analyzable if you person the close tools. | Screenshot: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7fbUVcKX8g">ProModding (YouTube)</a>

It’s already June 5th successful immoderate parts of the world, which means the Nintendo Switch 2 is present retired successful the wild. Before the archetypal reviews of the caller console person appeared online, the YouTube transmission ProModding has already shared a 17-minute teardown video of the handheld that includes close-ups of its custom Nvidia processor.

Aside from Nintendo hiding a fewer screws and merchandise latches beneath stickers connected either broadside of the console, the teardown appears to beryllium comparatively straightforward if you already person the tools needed to cautiously region ribbon cables and different connectors and don’t attraction astir voiding the Switch 2’s warranty.

The teardown doesn’t supply galore caller insights into the Switch 2’s interior hardware, but ProModding did stock a fewer observations of the caller console. The Joy-Con controllers bash beryllium tighter erstwhile attached to the Switch 2 than they did connected the original, but tin inactive beryllium wobbled. Nintendo appears to beryllium utilizing the aforesaid types of thermal paste it utilized connected the archetypal Switch, which some gamers person replaced to amended show and prolong the beingness of their consoles.

They besides enactment that the folding enactment basal connected the backmost of the Switch 2 is “too flimsy” and that determination is simply a “high hazard of breakage” erstwhile attempting to unfold it from lone 1 side.

If you privation to cognize however repairable the Switch 2 is, you mightiness request to hold for iFixit’s teardown. Yesterday, iFixit retroactively reduced the archetypal Nintendo Switch’s repair score from the 8 retired of 10 it gave the console successful 2017 to a 4 retired of 10, based much connected its artillery setup and advancement made by competitors similar Valve’s Steam Deck than the finicky Joy-Con sticks.