“It is a piss-poor excuse for a controller.” That’s how repair-focused YouTube channel iFixit begins its unfavourable evaluate of the Nintendo Swap 2 Professional Controller. The restore and tech consultants counsel the dear controller is a “nightmare” to restore and comprises {hardware} that may possible fail at some point. And all of this for the low worth of $85. Yikes.
On July 11, as noticed by Nintendo Life, iFixit posted their Swap 2 Professional Controller evaluate on YouTube, and the outcomes are very, very unhealthy. The restore consultants—who champion repairability, sustainability, and high quality—didn’t mince phrases about Nintendo’s new and costly controller.
For instance, it’s “absurdly” tough to switch the controller’s built-in battery, which can finally fail—like all batteries—and can must be changed. To take action, it’s important to do all of this:
Take away the highest plastic face plate held down by tons of adhesive to achieve seven screws. Then take away finicky plastic wedge sections. Then, utilizing extra power than anticipated, yank off the 2 thumbsticks. Subsequent, take away extra screws. Then take away one other plastic protecting. After that, take away the bumpers. Then take out extra screws and disconnect the rumble packs. Lastly, take away just a few extra hidden screws, and now you possibly can take away the inner guts of the controller and attain the battery pack.
Yeah, that’s a variety of work to easily change a completely lifeless battery. And to reassemble the controller, it’s important to supply your personal adhesive to reinstall the entrance plate correctly, or it is going to rattle whereas gaming.
And it will get worse. To take away the joysticks utterly is a “ache within the ass” and requires extra digging into the controller’s guts. And what iFixit present in there may be alarming: some very low-profile joysticks which might be liable to drifting. What’s extra, the sticks look like utilizing the identical elements discovered within the cheaper Pleasure Cons. The one good factor iFixit needed to say concerning the controller was how simple it’s to switch the headset jack.
The corporate suggests avid gamers purchase third-party controllers that include easier-to-access batteries and higher thumbsticks, just like the Elves 2 Professional from Gulikit. “A money seize driving excessive on the Nintendo model” is how iFixit summed up the Professional Controller 2. And yeah, looks like it. Whereas the controller feels nice in your fingers and has some nifty further buttons, it appears it’s removed from being “Professional” grade {hardware}.
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