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Nintendo made the Switch 2 harder to repair, because of course it did
Jun 12, 2025
The Switch 2 brings a bigger screen and better performance, but if you ever need to fix it, good luck. iFixit’s teardown shows Nintendo is still going out of its way to block DIY repairs, scoring the console a painful 3 out of 10.
The Nintendo Switch 2 has received an official teardown from iFixit, and the results aren’t great. That isn’t to say there is anything functionally wrong with the Nintendo Switch 2. On the contrary, it’s been an exceedingly popular device thus far, and it only just officially launched on June 5. The issue, according to iFixit, is that it just isn’t very user-friendly with regards to tearing it down in the event that you need to repair something.
This might not surprise many people. A little more than a week ago, iFixit revisited the original Nintendo Switch to see what repairs would be like on it several years after the initial teardown. The reasons for revisiting the console were mostly because iFixit says its criteria for repair scores have evolved a lot since the original Switch launched. Spoiler alert, it didn’t go well, and iFixit ended up lowering the repair score by about half. Now that it has had time to take a look at the Switch 2, things haven’t changed much, unfortunately.
The Switch 2 teardown proves that Nintendo doesn’t want to make it easy for users to repair their own consoles
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