Right to Repair

Score breakdown

Why this grade

iFixit cut the original Switch from 8/10 to 4/10 and scored the Switch 2 just 3/10. The core right-to-repair failures: Nintendo has never made any replacement parts publicly available nor published any official repair instructions; the battery is glued in, the only charge port is soldered to the main board, and repairs require two hard-to-source thermal compounds. The unresolved Joy-Con stick drift (Switch 2 still uses non-Hall-effect sticks and remains drift-prone) is, ironically, one of the easier repairs. Worst-in-category on every right-to-repair axis; third-party parts (iFixit batteries/Hall-effect sticks) exist only because the OEM provides nothing.

Sources

• iFixit: Why We're Nerfing the Switch's Repairability Score (8→4, no parts, no ma
• iFixit Switch 2 Teardown: Still Glued, Still Soldered, Still Drifting (3/10)
• iFixit Handheld Game Console Repairability Scores (Switch 4/10)