iFixit has shared a full teardown video of the Switch 2 Pro controller and isn’t impressed by how tough it’s to entry the $85 accent’s inner elements, together with its rechargeable battery that may inevitably lose its potential to carry a cost over time.
The net restore web site goes as far as to name the Professional 2 a “piss-poor excuse for a controller” for a number of totally different causes. Opening the controller requires you to first forcefully take away a faceplate held in place by adhesive tape earlier than a single screw is seen. However you’ll must extract a number of different components and elements, together with the controller’s mainboard, earlier than its battery is even accessible.
As previously revealed, the Professional 2 remains to be utilizing older potentiometer-based joysticks which can be vulnerable to creating drift over time. They do function a modular design that may probably make them simpler to swap with third-party Hall effect or TMR replacements, however reassembling the controller after that DIY improve would require you to interchange all of the adhesive tape you destroyed throughout disassembly.