joy-cons are identical to every joy-con before them but just last week nintendo came out to say that they have been making subtle improvements to increase the joystick durability so i'd like to see if we can spot any differences inside the joystick last year in our investigation of the psNUMBER_TOKEN joystick drift tobacco we learned that all joysticks are consumables something nintendo themselves have come forward to admit all popular joysticks currently being used by big manufacturers rely on tiny physical components moving against each other which inevitably causes wear and leads to drift opening up this new joystick i'm disappointed to say that i don't see any noticeable differences between this one and previous joysticks that i've opened up that doesn't mean that these aren't slightly more durable though if nintendo says they're making changes i tend to believe them and they still seem to be offering free replacement for drifting joy-cons if you don't mind shipping yours off if you don't want to wait it's an easy diy replacement procedure and you can find everything you need including a guide over at URL_TOKEN so the nintendo switch oled model has undergone some pretty significant changes though a lot of them don't make a big difference to performance or gameplay while this minor update may not be the switch pro some people were hoping for we are glad to see nintendo reusing existing parts where they can and prioritizing backwards compatibility with existing hardware like docs and joy-cons on the repairability scale the new switch oled fares well it earns a NUMBER_TOKEN out of NUMBER_TOKEN for its sensible modular construction and general use of screws over adhesive unfortunately it's losing a point this year for the move to non-modular storage and card reader consolidation and important to note unlike most other modern consoles and iphones nintendo doesn't use software locks to limit repairs
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