IFixit says that Switch 2 is more difficult to repair, probably still drifting

The long -awaited Nintendo Switch 2 has finally fallen this week and, although it brings a series of great improvements on its predecessor, as a better screen, the most robust internal specifications and the most accessible checks – there is something in which it is worse. According to the supporters of reparactability and good shoulders. iFixitIt is even more difficult to solve than the original switch.

Perhaps more worrying for the new owners is that, despite a new redesign of “from scratch” for the Switch’s Joy-Con controllers, the main cause of the stick drift, something many owners of the original they have been complained of for some time: it does not seem to have been truly faced in Switch 2.

For kind concession of Ifixit

Stick Drift is something that can happen to joystick, usually in time or in heavy use, in which the movement is recorded without the user input. IFIXIT stresses that the less drifty Joystick technology that is based on magnets rather than on potentiometers, such as the hall effect or magnetresistency tunneling (TMR), can help prevent it, but has not found any of those present in Switch 2.

“From what we can say, the redesign did not include a review of the main technology that causes the drift of the joystick,” writes IFIXIT in his Blog posts. “Unless Nintendo is using a new miraculous material on those resistive tracks or the change of size magically resolves it, the best solution will come again from third -party substitutes.”

Still worse, Ifixit has discovered that the replacement of the Joy-Con controllers is actually more difficult this time. “Any technology uses … Joystick are a component of High Conradusculus. They can still break a drop, even if they never suffer from drift. Being able to replace these things is a priority for the reparactability of the game console.”

Overall, IFIXIT gave the switch 2 with a repairing score of 3 out of 10. It is a point of less than 4 out of 10 recently retroactively He gave the first switch and delays behind artists of the caliber of PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X, both who obtained 7 out of 10.