After the retroactive lower within the unique Nintendo Swap restore rating from eight to 10 to 10 to replicate the 2025 requirements, IFIXIT discovered that the change 2 is even more durable to treatment. Following the whole digging of the brand new console, IFIXIT offers the change 2 of three out of 10 restore rating, thanks, partially, to a battery that’s once more “glued with robust adhesive” and flash storage modules and USB-C ports which can be glued to the primary plate.
Nintendo continues to depend on the three-point screws that the corporate has used to assemble its decays and handhelds for many years, and on change 2, many are hidden behind the stickers that deteriorate within the means of eradicating them to entry the screws. The corporate has by no means launched restore elements or manuals for the unique change, and presently there isn’t any obtainable for Swap 2, so you will have third -party alternate options to reassemble the console.
Elements similar to headphone jack, audio system, microphone and microSD reader on Swap 2 are straightforward to take away. Just like the buttons which can be glued to the scroll boards and the coolant fan of the console that’s held on the spot by three screws.
However IFIXIT describes the elimination of the change battery 2 as an “absolute mission” and “as unhealthy as the unique change”. A number of isopropyl alcohol and a “entire set of PRY devices” have been wanted, and within the Nintendo foaming course of, the battery was left disintegrated by making a future battery trade a troublesome and messy effort.
The gamecard reader of the change 2, which was modular and comparatively straightforward to take away and exchange within the OLED switching and unique change, is now glued to the primary desk of console, as a result of it’s on Swap Lite. Ifixit additionally discovered three various kinds of thermal paste utilized in change 2, which within the preliminary change will solidify over time, which makes it troublesome to remove and fewer environment friendly to forestall overheating.
Even the brand new Pleasure-Cons on Swap 2 are more durable to disassemble, which is problematic, as a result of the joysticks use the identical potentiometric expertise as the unique pleasure that’s primarily based on a resistive materials that may be worn over time. This is among the causes of the infamous downside of the unique joystick of the change and this time it will likely be even more durable to restore or exchange the sticks with various Corridor Impact or TMR.