Just a few months after the first formal product announcements in October 2016, Nintendo’s Switch home-portable-hybrid video game console went on…
Just a few months after the first formal product announcements in October 2016, Nintendo’s Switch home-portable-hybrid video game console went on sale on Friday. The relentless disassemblers over at iFixit took one of its specialty screwdriver kits to a fresh-off-the-store-shelf Switch console to take a look at the hardware inside and the techniques used to put it together. The first-revision Switch appears to be a refreshingly-modular system with a substantial potential for easy repairs. In separate but related news, device skin maker dbrand announced that it will not offer its vinyl veneers for Nintendo Switch consoles, saying that the coating on the Switch and its accessories will be damaged by the adhesive used in “all skins and wraps”.
Source: iFixit
Users looking to take apart a Switch on their own will need a tri-wing Y00 screwdriver to first get the Switch open, but the device is otherwise assembled with tiny standard Phillips screws.
