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.
I think that they 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
Nintendo is the Apple of video games. They don’t want people to repair it, either send it back for a depot repair or buy a new one. They want you to treat it as a sealed product.
Yeah, Nintendo have always had a bit of a weird mentality when it comes to their hardware. They always like doing things their way, and for you to only deal with them for repairs and service (as far as I know not even having a repair partner program to make their service easier to access). It’s a shame, considering their hardware has been fairly modular and easy to open in general.
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.
I think that they 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
Nintendo is the Apple of video games. They don’t want people to repair it, either send it back for a depot repair or buy a new one. They want you to treat it as a sealed product.
Yeah, Nintendo have always had a bit of a weird mentality when it comes to their hardware. They always like doing things their way, and for you to only deal with them for repairs and service (as far as I know not even having a repair partner program to make their service easier to access). It’s a shame, considering their hardware has been fairly modular and easy to open in general.