NATO said:
Let's be honest here, the likelyhood that a small fall broke the latch on one side is fairly good, he even stated that it popped off when it fell, the other however didn't, and the likelyhood that both latch mechanisms broke when the unit was dropped is much, much smaller. But this still leaves two issues, 1) the latches are prone to breaking - wear or not, a small fall could break both latches - this isn't a great outcome regardless. The real question here is, what happens when that number of 500 or so changes to 1 million?, even at a ration of 1 in 500, a million consoles sold results in thousands of people with the issue if that million all baby the system in the same way - when you have hundreds of thousands of kids who aren't so careful with their hands on them, I can see that number being much different. As I said, it's a design failure, a latched controller should only be removable by manually depressing the latch button - for the gameboy the cartidge latch was just a 1.5mm thick plastic protrusion from the power button that would slide out into the slot in the corner of the cartidge and it was enough to prevent the removal of carts, even with a great amount of force - yet with the switch, it's potentially possible to pop it off with much, much less. I suspect Nintendo will release a revised model that uses a slightly different but compatible latch design at some point this year, likely swapping the ABS material used for the latch clip with a composite material too, to reduce the wear issue. |
I dont know how to post twitter posts on here but the guy who had this problem said that it doesnt happen on the 2nd Switch unit he has so its very likely do to the fall.
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