Switch 2 Durability Stress Test

EviLore

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Not for the faint of heart!

Generally solid except for the permanently affixed plastic screen protector which scratches extremely easily.
 
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Biggest concern was the joycon contacts and seeing the tests here should put people's mind at ease. You'd have to go incredibly far out of your way to break them off.
 
I kept waiting for more, he kept saying wait for more, and than edged me... I was not satisfied.
 
A screen protector protects the screen from you. This protects you from the screen.

Do yourself a huge favor and put a $5 tempered glass protector on it.
 
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What's the point of a permanently attached plastic screen protector?! Especially if there is glass under it which would scratch far less easily.
 
I assume it's more durable than the Switch (1) screen, which scratched for me straight away just from putting it into the dock it came with…

I got a screen protector this time just in case.
 
What's the point of a permanently attached plastic screen protector?! Especially if there is glass under it which would scratch far less easily.
Maybe the screen they cheaped out on is so fragile that they needed to put a protective layer on top of it before it even leaving the factory?
 
What's the point of a permanently attached plastic screen protector?! Especially if there is glass under it which would scratch far less easily.
Its purpose is to prevent shards of glass from scattering in the rare event the screen is damaged. Nintendo knows that the Switch 2 is going to end in the hands of kids. All the Nintendo handhelds have a plastic screen over the LCD/OLED.
 
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Its mostly a d brand commercial ... he cuts on the switch a bit, but doesn't break it down, like he has done with phones.
Yes, an unfortunate amount of dbrand shilling this time, but still useful to see the scratch tests and joycon attachment stress tests.
 
The Joy-Con stress test looked surprisingly durable, for the amount of pressure he applied at least. Magnets seem like a good choice here.

That low grade plastic screen is an abomination, though. One of the easiest scratch magnet of a touch capacitive screen on any modern device, so far.

They'll cheap out on anything to save BoM. Classic Nintendo.
 


Not for the faint of heart!

Generally solid except for the permanently affixed plastic screen protector which scratches extremely easily.

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Almost turned it off when he started scratching the joycons, then the lighter came out and I realized this man is a straight up psychopath.
 
That's the moron managing the gamestop. What kind of idiot uses staples to attach receipts to any brand new item?
It was probably a joint effort between Alan the cheapskate that's managing Nintendo's packaging division and his son Jake the idiot Gamestop manager:

 
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