Of all the things I had to change on my switch (1), I had to do a joy con battery once. It was annoying because the only third party battery I could find was like one millimeter wider and was a pain to insert.
Mostly my repairs were loads of sticks and joy con rails. Once i had to change the switch fan that started to fail too. Also the shitty plastic on the backplate started to crack and I replaced it too.
I even replaced the sd card slot, but I think I didn’t need to do that in the end. I had read errors that were due to software and I “just” needed to transfer my games to the system memory and back to the SD again. Weird stuff.
Haven’t needed to repair anything on the 2 yet. I hope it’s a bit more reliable.
If they’re going for the same form factor, which I assume they will since the dock is only one size, I wonder how much battery capacity will drop.
That’s always what these corporations point to as the reason for non-removable batteries. Removable means smaller.
Also water-tightness, but my Galaxy S5 was water resistant and had removable everything, so that doesn’t hold any weight.
Looks to be listed on the linked webpage. Most are seeing no change or as little as 1-5% however the Switch 2 Pro Controller is going to be a 16% reduction.
Having not seen teardowns of anything past the Switch 1, I’m curious why the Pro Controller has such a massive drop compared to everything else.
I design battery-operated things with custom batteries specified and partly-designed by me, and it takes like 10x the design effort, 20% more parts cost, and compromises on capacity, size, weight, and/or watertightness, as you mentioned. The design effort in particular is just killer - so many more interfaces to deal with, when a non-removable pack can just be shrink-wrapped and dropped into a pocket.
It’s worth it, I’m not saying it isn’t. But I do sympathize a bit.
Of course, I’m working at a company with i employees, not tens of thousands. Probably easier for Nintendo to throw manpower at it.
it’s mentioned in the post. the battery size for switch 2 is going from 5220 mAh to 5172 mAh (~1% smaller)
so not dramatic, but it’s smaller. curiously, the gamecube nso controller is getting a battery life increase lol (only that one tho, everything else is either getting a decrease or no meaningful change)
