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inclementimmigrant Jun 16, 2025

Switch 2 Teardown: Still Glued, Still Soldered, Still Drifting

Switch 2 Teardown: Still Glued, Still Soldered, Still Drifting - Lemmy.World

>Joysticks: Probably Still Drifty >Joy-Con joysticks use a potentiometer to read the voltage at a wiper that slides across a strip of resistive material. That material wears down over time, or plastic and dust can dirty the sensors. >Stick drift is a huge problem with other Switch models. One survey found that 40% of Switch owners had problems with their Joy-Cons drifting, and things didn’t get any better with the Lite or OLED editions. After a bunch of lawsuits, Nintendo’s president even admitted it and apologized, setting up a free repair program for customers in some parts of the world.

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net00 Jun 16, 2025

I can’t understand why they still ship a plastic screen. Surely there are other ways to keep glass from exploding that don’t involve a top plastic layer.

I got a screen protector first thing for mine. In a matter of months any unprotected screens will turn into shit.

I guess this is typical nintendo, haven’t used bought from them since the 3ds.

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ms.lane Jun 16, 2025

Is glass exploding even that much of a problem?

Dropping an iPad doesn’t even break the screen all the time and when it does it’s garbled.

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hark

Not sure, but they anticipate a lot of children having this device in their hands, so they’re going to design it for that, perhaps even over-design it, just in case.