hey guys I'm Gwendolyn and this is Scott
hey Gwen hey thanks for coming in and
talking about the switch teardown so you
guys tore this apart and tell us a
little bit about how it went
overall it went pretty well it was a
long day but the switch is not too hard
to take apart some of the good parts is
it's mainly held together by screws
which is better than adhesive there are
lots of modular components so if
something needs to be replaced there's
the potential to pull out something
individually some of the negatives there
is some adhesive the displays held by a
heat of which is something that might
scratch and it's there's tripoint screws
in tripoint
screws that's like not a super common
bit but overall I did all right
okay so it sounds like it did pretty
good what it is score overall it did it
got an 8 out of 10 on there variability
chart which is pretty solid what did we
find in there that was pretty cool let's
start with the consult starting with the
cost but we found lots of modular
components which is a great thing for
repair ability we found that they have a
kind of a nice modular game reader and
had audio jacks that is pretty easy to
remove in addition to that micro sd was
also there also super easy to remove
simple press connector that can be
popped right out moving down the line
they have a removable battery which is
an upgrade from previous Nintendo
products was just held in place by a
little bit of adhesive but also simple
just you remove the jack the jack the
connector and it's pretty easy to pry on
out which is very helpful we pulled out
the board to find some cool goodies in
there we found the Nvidia what we're
assuming is the Tegra system-on-a-chip
which was likely custom-made for
Nintendo and it was a overall it was a
pretty cool console to explore pretty
easy to remove everything and we got a
good peek inside let's talk about these
Jory con controllers I heard they're not
the same inside the Joye cons are not
the same we just read it is a little
different we do have the left joique on
and then we also found that in the right
joique on there is an added in FC
antenna and then there's also some IR
hardware that it does separate it from
the other the other joy con controller
so they are in fact different one of the
cool things that both of them do have
though is the HD rumble Pak which is
identical to those found in the oculus
touch
and they're they're pretty cool pieces
of hardware so what is a rumble pack for
so the rumble pack is what generates
those cool haptic feedback responses so
Mario Cart crashing in Mario Kart and
sword fighting all that all of that fun
stuff so yeah and and they're pretty
interesting we did also rip one apart
completely yeah yeah so one of these
things that you could compare these two
was maybe two tactic engine and an
iPhone except one of the differences
between this and the iPhone one is this
actually does rotate about a different
axis so it shakes a little different
than the topic and another thing but
regardless very cool hardware to find so
the last piece of the teardown and the
last piece of this device is the dock
which looks very simple what is what's
involved with this dock uh not much it
is simply a board in a box for the most
part it does provide this board does
have a lot of different ports on it
including USB and HDMI one of the
interesting things we did find was there
are two USB 2.0 ports on the board which
is what Nintendo told us but then
there's also a USB port on the back that
one of our teardown errs is pretty
confident is a USB 3.0 yet Nintendo
isn't quite advertising that so we don't
know if we'll maybe see that in the
later software update or what but an
interesting find nevertheless so since
we publish the teardown we've gotten a
couple of questions in one of them one
of our viewers mentioned that the flash
memory looked like it could be removed
can it be upgraded I wish we could speak
about its proprietary information most
likely but they are not mistaken it is
incredibly easy to pop off this little
bit of flash memory so whether or not
we'll be able to upgrade it it's kind of
to be determined but it looks pretty
cool that it's easy to remove so
hopefully down the line it will learn
something about it that it might
actually be able to be updated yeah we
had it we had another person asked about
this screen for the console we hear that
it can be scratched
so I there's been rumors as to what
material the display is made out of but
they're also people are finding that
when they put the display into the dock
the dog actually might scratch their
display which is yeah that's a little
bit of a problem and a little surprising
I will see as time goes on if more and
more people have that issue or if it's
maybe a first run
reduction thing I don't know so we have
one more question and it's about the
connectivity of these droidcon
controllers people are having a little
bit of trouble with the left one can you
talk about that a little bit right right
so in Matera time we did find that there
are structural differences between the
left icon in the right - icon one of
which was the NFC antenna on the right
joique on controller there is an actual
content actually comes off of the board
it is like an extra component and that
is not found in the left one and the
left one the antenna is actually just
built into the board kind of hard to see
which could be a reason why it's not
working as well
so it's hard to say for sure if that's
the main reason why people are having
connectivity issues but definitely
possible and I am I in my opinion quite
likely well needless to say this is a
really fun device and it sounds like a
pretty great one to take apart not too
shabby yeah lots of screws which we love
to see it I fix it even if they are try
point we do have bits for that so
minimal glue it looks like and we can
upgrade things ourselves that's that's
the hope some of the things we're not
sure but it seems like there's potential
for that very cool well thanks for
coming in and stopping by and showing me
all these parts it's all absolutely good
it's always a pleasure awesome if you
haven't seen the full teardown be sure
to check it out on a fixed calm and of
course you can always watch our little
video on our Channel
we'll see you next time
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