Rival handhelds like the Steam Deck and Asus ROG Ally prove that it's possible to make repairable consoles, prompting repair site iFixit to revisit its original Switch teardown.

iFixit doesn’t think so anymore. After giving Nintendo’s handheld a rosy welcome at its 2017 debut, the online repair site says the Switch no longer lives up to 2025 standards — and so iFixit is cutting the Switch’s repairability score in half, from 8 out of 10 to 4 out of 10.

A teardown of Nintendo’s latest console has found that the core tech that causes joystick drift is still there. Plus it’s even harder to repair than the original.