mid 20s | bisexual | programmer | european
since i've been tinkering with my 3ds more lately i noticed that the battery is not nearly as good as it used to be. but i thought "well at least the battery isn't too difficult to replace. just have to get a new one and take the back plate off and swap them." and i thought, gee, most stuff today sure doesn't make battery replacement easy. out of curiosity i check the difference on ifixit.
from: easy. simple. 4 steps.
to: how did we fucking get here
I've said it before and I'll say it again: I love my Switch but it's time to bring back dedicated handheld consoles.
I wonder if this coincides at all with the switch feeling like... Less whimsical than old Nintendo products? Compared to the ds lineup, the switch feels way closer to just 'an android tablet with detachable controllers', both in presentation and I guess repairability
It really does feel this way, since entering recovery mode requires pressing a home button (like, the same signal as in phones or tablets with physical home button - not the "home" found on joycons). Oh, and of course aside from slight driver troubles, it runs android somewhat okay (just gotta treat it as a very low-end low-res tablet).
There's simultaneously a great benefit to all consumer technology becoming more similar and homogenized, and a horrible loss of personality
Well, from software development perspective it makes sense, unfortunately. It's easier to do releases on X platforms at once if all of them behave more or less the same.
It's easier to have "low-end tablet" target than to hire and maintain a dedicated nintendo-console variant of the game and hire devs for it. I mean, it also makes the case for porting mobile games to Switch, like The World Ends With You Final Remix is just android/ios Solo Remix ported to Switch (including its weird asset loading logic).
But on the other hand it kills creativity with unique handheld releases like Sims games for GBA and DS being its own thing created separately from the PC game :(
I was gonna say this is much easier than most devices with a battery but the fact you have to re-paste a heatsink (or be careful to keep the goop in reusable condition) and remove adhesive with IPA makes that... dubious. It's not as bad as most portable devices, but there are bad design choices for sure.
