If you were lucky enough to pick up a shiny new Nintendo Switch last week then chances are the last thing you'll want to do is pull your new system apart, but thankfully we don't have to resort to extreme surgery to see what it looks like on the inside - we have the kind folks over at fictiv to do that for us.
Not only have they picked apart the console itself - finding an impressive amount of thermal control inside - they've also deconstructed the Joy-Con, Joy-Con grip and dock.
Be sure to head over to the site for the full teardown, plus plenty of analysis on what's found inside. If you'd rather see this process in motion, then check out iFixit's footage below.
[source fictiv.com, via ifixit.com]
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Pwoar! This article needs a NSFW warning.
I'm surprised that the integrated hydra core isn't adjacent to the hyperfraulic magnesium generator in the Joy-Con. I thought that was the only way that the vibrafuels could trigger the HD rumble effectively.
WARNING! Do not try this at home!
Good to see that the battery can be replaced without having to send it to Nintendo. Well, so long as the batteries become available to buy that is.
@Leu10antFalcon
But if you don't open yours, then how can you tell that's what is truly inside?
@JubilifeRival Doctor Emmett Brown, is that you?
@JubilifeRival genius hahaha
Wow, we finally solved the mystery of the broken Joy-Cons
Im sorry but my 8-bit controller works fine since day one over 25 years ago
@JubilifeRival
If they did that they wouldn't be able to get the flux capacitor up to 1.21 jiggawatts.
@ironside1911
Made in China, lol....
So I'm confused. Does only 1 of the joy con have a battery?
@JubilifeRival
actually the dense capacitors fluctuate on the flatpacks because of the coding ignited from the 4592's. you know how 4592's are. usually they require a tcr temperature control test on the thermostream due to the output the epoxy causes, which in return demands a high output from the 1206 parts that shelter the resistors that display a voltage of anywhere between 1.277 and 1.172 give or take a 100% charge and climate.
I love the Nintendo Switch.
As cool as this is to see, it pains me to see the Switch in pieces. I need one ASAP.
How do the people sleep at night
This is horrible poor poor switch
when i first got into hardware development and computer repair, computer components were a lot bigger. now they are way too small. for once i am starting to become impressed by how far technology has come in the last 20 years.
hopefully someone will find a way to get a rechargeable battery that will last more than 15 hours for our video game systems and smart phones just like the good old days with the Nintendo Gameboy.
right now i am working on a new battery technology to make a battery last forever. (with two exceptions) i finally got it working, but now i need to hire a few people to help me find a way to make it smaller than a large brick.
and i hope they will be able to put that Nintendo Switch back together without causing it pain. piece of advice: stay away from the Best Buy Geek squad if you want your gaming systems (especially our new Nintendo Switches) and computers to keep working.
@CoolDoolio All in a day's work.
@ogo79 Oh my, you raise a very good point. I wonder if the bioflow could be recalibrated through the utilization of pentagonal reactor cylinders, though?
@JaxonH While that's true, you could always just rehardwire the giga compactor through the hypnotonic calibration system to easily reduce sapphire jiggawatts in the manual generator.
@JaxonH @JubilifeRival
I geuss you can only play the Switch during thunderstorms on top of a clocktower.
@westman98
Or when driving 88 miles per hour.
The Switch logo on the back of the console is too big.
@westman98 Did I accidentally make a Back to the Future reference?
@JubilifeRival
well were talking about bioflow here.
the dynamics of the pentagonal cylinders are highly questionable due to the carbon nanotubes and how they counteract in such a varied environment. however, i ran some transition metal tests based off the arc-reactor formula and if my hypothesis is correct its best to utilize coaxial porous cylinders by default, verses pentagonal cylinders. at least that formula is working so far.
Yes, repair would be a daunting task. If if the battery fails outside the warranty period, then I'll change it myself. I have the special screwdrivers for it. The only problem would be to find a quality replacement battery.
@Moon same, its awesome. No going back now.
@ironside1911 : Those sweatshop Joy-Con assemblers are being paid too damn much!
Nintendo leaves a message reading "THX4VOIDINGWARRANTY!"
@stevenw45 "right now i am working on a new battery technology to make a battery last forever. (with two exceptions) i finally got it working, but now i need to hire a few people to help me find a way to make it smaller than a large brick."
Thats some sort of typo? your perpetuum mobile battery I mean.
You might want to contact NASA or Nintendo, im sure both will pay you any amount desired for the "forever lasting battery".... perhaps Elon Musk would throw in another billion.
I love my Switch SO HARD. It's THE balance. My PS4 is looking very tired after trying eject disks that aren't there. I might be smug...
@ironside1911 raises hand "I get it!". I want a tesla bad
@AlternateButtons
The "Ice Cube" was melting. XD
@stevenw45
Ugh...reassemble Switch after tore apart is pretty risky. >_<
Oh no murderes! They killed a chinese switch. Check its puls if its still alive! Lol
Just kidding, but funny to see that some people spend money to do these things
So the right joycon has a discrete wireless antenna and the left one doesn't?
I know hindsight is 20/20, but maybe next time Nintendo should put one in each.
WHAT?! And where are the pikmin?
@ProjectCafe - I'm warning you right now, do NOT look at this article. It's basically a snuff piece. The horror!
Cool the battery looks easy to replace...
Where's the uranium slot?
iFixit also has their usual step-by step format teardown up too. It's nice, and provides plenty of humor to go with it.
They gave it an 8/10 repairability rating. That's pretty amazing, not many things get so high a rating from them! The great news is they gave it a thumbs up for a user replaceable battery. All it takes is a tripoint driver to open the caseback, pull up the metal heatspreader plate (and possibly disconnect the SD reader), unplug the battery, and pry it off its adhesive. (If we can get replacement batteries somewhere eventually.)
Nintendo really stuffed as much as they could in there didn't they?
@bimmy-lee
Although I don't fully support it, there is a massive difference between something getting disassembled, and getting destroyed, especially with the wrong reasons in mind.
@AlternateButtons ...ha, I thought it was marbles in the Joy Cons..I think they lost their marbles..
@ironside1911
not really, but can you guess what those two exceptions are? (actually three) one of them being FCC regulations.
it is not a mobile battery at this point because of its size. and i have a feeling that i won't be able to make it small enough for use with mobile phones because of how it works.
also you do realize that you can use a dead battery in a smartphone. i found an issues with certain types of charging ports on phones which can allow you to charge the device with the static electricity in the air.
of course then there is a way to use the Bluetooth wireless frequency to charge a device, but in my experience that just causes heating issues that you do not want to deal with.
and @ironside1911; i assume you know the basics of how a battery works regardless of whether or not it is a rechargeable battery.
@stevenw45 Im not doubting you are doing something with batteries, rechargeable ones, dead and/or alive.
And regarding the size, be it even double of what it is now. Elon would provide the money for optimization. I think Im should be familar with basics like e.g. fans of ham radio should be familar with collecting static electricity with antennas. What I dont get is still my first question.
Its a "forever lasting battery" ? I mean, I dont know what the execptions are - one is size you said, np. FCC, if that works, NP at all and the third? How much energy you manage to squeeze out of the friction.
So if you riddled the puzzle of how to generate huge amounts (or even just small amounts) of static electricity on a continuous basis without any external input, followed by converting the static electricity into useable current electricity and then charging up a battery using static electricity while not connected to anything - you could singlehandly finally buy up Nintendo and release the proper version of the switch!
Anyway, its the "forever lasting" that has the "perpertuum mobile" taste for me. If you flood me with physical details, I give up anyway - I just like hobbies. Good luck with the batteries.
@ironside1911
in terms of using static electricity to recharge a phone battery, you only need a small amount. and from the last time i checked there was already a patent on it or whatever. and i only can get the input/output voltage of that at 5V or below. and from what i noticed static electricity is usable in its raw form.
i am a bit of a hobbies myself that is one of the reasons of how i came across it. i like messing around with computer technology. it just sucks as a job.
in terms of the battery the size is not one of the exceptions even though having a battery the size of a brick sucks. one of the other exceptions is some of the materials used to make the battery.
and if i were to buy Nintendo from having enough money to do so because of this, i would not try to fix the switch; at least not at first.
@Xaessya Who cares? I only play games, not dissecting frogs.
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