IFIXIT is retroactively gives Nintendo 4/10 key on repair

Can you call Switch Nintendo easy to repair, what with it ThornySticking battery, small and easy to destroy, and lack official repair instructions and spare parts?

Ifixit does not think anymore. After giving mobile Nintendo A pink welcome for his first appearance for the year 2017The online repair site says the switch is no longer up to 2025 criteria – so IFixit cuts the degree of repair from Switch to half, from 8 to 10 to 4 out of 10.

We never put it also A lot of shares in the score of repair, but IFixit (thinking (In this blog postLogical to me, as a person who coincides with opening every mobile game system that I experienced freedom. It is not Joy-Con DRIFT- It is that this industry has continued.

As of 2025, it is much easier to enter many laptops for mobile games, and devices began to provide batteries that can be replaced without giving up a fragile and dangerous body to the brains (attached battery) away from its frames. Some iPhone now allows you to remove the battery adhesive With a tremor of electricity.

plus, The steam surface began to expect The companies that really want to provide repairable mobile will make their parts available to the public to buy, perhaps even through IFixit itself. This is not a place where Nintendo plays the ball-although the New York Law of Answer may ask Nintendo to provide spare parts to switch 2 in the United States of America, as IFixit indicates in the blog post.

This is not the first time that IFixit retroactively decided to publish a large tools company after thinking better about it: Ifixit separated with Samsung in 2024 After Samsung was not coming with the official parts and asking customers to purchase batteries that were previously assembled for the phone screens, among other restrictions. I wonder if they were practicing Similar pressure on Logitech.

IFIXIT is almost no nintendo like Samsung.

“The original key still has bright points: the normative design philosophy of controller, and the replaceable (expandable) storage, is still all direct interior design deserves praise. But when compared to the latest devices that also provide uniform M.2 holes, socket components, documentation and documentation available widely, the transformer shows his age,” writes, “.