iFixit Says Switch 2 Is Harder to Repair, Probably Still Drift Prone

The long-awaited Nintendo Switch 2 finally dropped this week, and while it makes a number of big improvements on its predecessor—things like a better screen, beefier internal specs, and more accessible controls—there is one thing it's worse at. According to the repairability advocates and gleeful disassemblers at iFixit, it's even harder to fix than the original Switch. Perhaps most worrying for new owners is that, despite a new “from the ground up” redesign for the Switch’s Joy-Con controllers, the root cause of stick drift—something that many owners of the original have long complained of—doesn't seem to have been truly addressed in the Switch 2. Courtesy of iFixit Stick drift is something that can happen to joysticks, usually over time or under heavy usage, where movement is registered without user input. iFixit points out that less-drifty joystick tech that relies on magnets instead of potentiometers, like Hall effect or tunneling magnetoresistance (TMR) sensors, can help preven ... Read full article.