This connector on Switch 2 will be key failure point
Wednesday, 12 Mar 2025
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Shouldve just been some slightly protruding metal pieces, like macbook or windows laptop charger and similar. Im with OP, that part is going to break so fast.
Yup. Saw that, and first thought was that it’s getting broken.
There used to be a thing miyamoto Said, when creating a Nintendo console they used to Drop it at a average Child height. This was the approvement test. Hope the same thing happens with this connector too…
That was what I was thinking. And since it’s part of the main body, good luck replacing that.
Rumour is that it’s made of pure titanium with reinforced carbon nanotube sleeve. The contact pins are milled out of depleted uranium recovered from spent A10 Warthog rounds all over the war-torn Middle East. Your Switch 2 joycon connector may have killed people. Brrrrrrrrrrrt
**Edit:** This is getting more upvotes than I anticipated. The moral of the story is this: if your country gets bombed back to the middle ages in the name of Freedom™, be weary of accepting humanitarian aid from Japan during reconstruction. It’s almost *always* a clandestine operation to gather dangerous materials to turn into toys.
Sofa engineers unite!
I doubt it. It’s going to be magnet guided and the 360 rail will ensure it can really only slot in the way it’s intended to.
It actually looks fine to me ? The rails on the OG Switch were extremely flimsy and small children would fuck them up just by looking at them funny.
Repair shops are rejoicing
The way they did it with the first switch was smart, nothing can touch the pins until the controller has slid all the way down the side, dead straight.
This just seems like a backwards step.
Are we sure this is the real final design?
So now after the expert leakers which iterated on everything until something became true we have the sofa engineers telling us what will break when
That has a very very low chance of breaking, there looks to be almost no tension that will be applied to it. Unless you jam something in there trying to break it. All the tension is on the frame, it is even safe from a drop.
Tbh I very rarely actually take off my joycons. Not worried about it for my personal use, but if I had kids that’d be a different story
I don’t think it’s rigid, I think it’s spring loaded and gets pushed inside the system when connected.
I mean, people keep buying new joycons no questions asked when their current ones get the drift Nintendo hasn’t deal with since the switch came up. So I see a huge money opportunity for them there. Fans will keep throwing money at them for defective or low quality hardware.
Yeah guys. I’m sure *no one* at Nintendo thought about this at all! Their biggest mistake was not asking Reddit for engineering support.
Yall sit there frothing at the mouth *hoping* for something to pick apart.
There’s an entire team of people designing this console, do you think they just forgot they were making this for children? I’d be shocked if there weren’t several systems in place to prevent that from breaking or bending.
I’m worried that if a kid or someone else picks up the device with one hand, the locking mechanism might not be strong enough, causing the tablet part to drop on the floor.
Of course it will, especially when your kid tries to jam the fucking thing together
I’m honestly surprised this didn’t go the route of a magnetic connector simliar to the Apple magsafe charger for their laptops.
Two words. Planned obsolescence.
>”What the problem? It’s rated for the voltage and current we’re putting on it. And it hasn’t broke a single time in my office.”
Some engineer who can’t grasp the reality that this is a toy and it’s going to handled by kids.
First thing I thought when seeing that was “yup thats the main failure issue down the line”
I understand moving to magnets to hold but why the need to move to a physical connector instead of induction again?
to be fair this is all 3d modeling. who knows what other measures are there or if it will even still look like that with a physical product.
i think folks, in their excitement, over analyze these sorts of videos.
also, how would it bend if it doesnt stick out of the recessed area its in? unless your in there purposefully bending it.
Yep stupid design choice.
Maybe I lack imagination but I’m not seeing how it would be easily broken.
A persons fingers couldn’t easily get in there.
The Joycons cover it when inserted and it’s just a data transfer point its not actually holding them in the magnets are so it’s not a stress point.
You can’t slide the joycon at any angle other than straight in/out because of the recess design so it’s not like you can flex the joycons to break it.
I guess if you have the joycons out you could shove a knife or other sharp object in there and attempt to pry at it.
Announcement came out less than an hour ago and people are already complaining
Suddenly everybody is a mechanics expert and thought this through better than one of the biggest gaming and console companies in the world
What a miserable place reddit is
Hmmm, that does look like a weak point, it’s supposedly magnetic but still, one bend, and your done
Yeah If that breaks you’ll be shit out of luck using it in handheld mode.
Planned obsolescence
That was my first thought when i saw that actually
Damn!
I hadn’t really realized it on first watch since i was excited but you’re right. If this were a connect once and leave, then it wouldn’t be a problem but the nature of joycons is to constantly remove and attach them.
Theres no telling when you might slip up and enter it the wrong away and snap it.
It needs to have one key defect so they can sell 2 billion of them, half being duplicate purchases.
Just blow on it
Yeah, that was the first thing I thought of when they showed it… I just hope this connector is really solid at least.
No it won’t because mine will go on one time and stay on.
Instead of replacing joycons we will have to replace the console itself. STONKS💹
I have a 6 year old and a 3 year old. They will break this so fast.
Good
Love how you have already decided you know the exact engineering of this system by one photo floating around the internet. You know because everything floating around the internet is 100% true and has never been photoshopped.
Good thing I only use pro controller
I am a little less pessimistic. For once, the connector doesn’t protrude from case itself. This makes it a little bit more resistant to drop damage. With the depth of recess and it being place in the middle I also think it will be difficult to just jam the Joy-Con in there and damage it that way. It will automatically center itself.
With all that being said, it will wear out eventually, like any connector, and I really hope Nintendo wasted some thoughts about repairability (easy to open case, daughter board for the connector, etc.).
Something I immediately noticed as well. The male connector portion is on the switch itself rather than vice versa 🤦♂️
What was wrong with the way joycons attached to the switch on the switch 1 that they had to change it to this
I hope the blue part is pushed outward by a spring, and only retracts when you push it with the joypad.