{"id":157860,"date":"2025-06-04T15:49:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T15:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/157860\/"},"modified":"2025-06-04T15:49:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T15:49:09","slug":"look-inside-the-nintendo-switch-2-with-the-consoles-first-teardown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/157860\/","title":{"rendered":"Look inside the Nintendo Switch 2 with the console\u2019s first teardown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">It\u2019s already<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/634603\/nintendo-switch-2-price-release-date-details\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> June 5th<\/a> in some parts of the world, which means the Nintendo Switch 2 is now out in the wild. Before the first reviews of the new console have appeared online, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@pro-modding\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube channel ProModding<\/a> has already shared a 17-minute teardown video of the handheld that includes close-ups of its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/642793\/nintendo-switch-2-dlss-support-nvidia-ray-tracing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">custom Nvidia processor<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Aside from Nintendo hiding a few screws and release latches beneath stickers on either side of the console, the teardown appears to be relatively straightforward if you already have the tools needed to carefully remove ribbon cables and other connectors and don\u2019t care about voiding the Switch 2\u2019s warranty.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">The teardown doesn\u2019t provide many new insights into the Switch 2\u2019s internal hardware, but ProModding did share a few observations of the new console. The Joy-Con controllers do sit tighter when attached to the Switch 2 than they did on the original, but can still be wobbled. Nintendo appears to be using the same types of thermal paste it used on the first Switch, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UVxMUmT11e0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">some gamers have replaced<\/a> to improve performance and prolong the life of their consoles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">They also note that the folding support stand on the back of the Switch 2 is \u201ctoo flimsy\u201d and that there is a \u201chigh risk of breakage\u201d when attempting to unfold it from only one side.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">If you want to know how repairable the Switch 2 is, you might need to wait for iFixit\u2019s teardown. Yesterday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/678622\/ifixit-nerfs-nintendo-switch-repair-score-battery-drift\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">iFixit retroactively reduced the original Nintendo Switch\u2019s repair score<\/a> from the 8 out of 10 it gave the console in 2017 to a 4 out of 10, based more on its battery setup and progress made by competitors like Valve\u2019s Steam Deck than the finicky Joy-Con sticks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s already June 5th in some parts of the world, which means the Nintendo Switch 2 is now&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157861,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[77,1685,1583,12,128,326,53,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-157860","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-gadgets","10":"tag-gaming","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-nintendo","13":"tag-tech","14":"tag-technology","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114625889132883875","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}