My switch feels like a tank. No more creaky hinges, lower screen that scratches the upper screen, imprecise analog nub, wobbly sliders. Its really just a souped up tablet, but thats what i like about it. Its one piece and it feels like it will last!

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Posted by Mental on March 30, 2017 at 17:41:13 EST in reply to I feel the same way. It's so sturdy compared to the Switch, too. (n/t) from Jeurja.

My switch feels like a tank. No more creaky hinges, lower screen that scratches the upper screen, imprecise analog nub, wobbly sliders. Its really just a souped up tablet, but thats what i like about it. Its one piece and it feels like it will last!

No disconnects here, no screen scratching dock. Maybe im Lucky?

Lower screen that scratches the upper screen...I don't know what kind of food waste or sticks or whatever you have all over your screens but they don't touch on a closed DS so you've got something smooshed into that poor thing. The clamshell design protects the screens. Also, while I have not held a Switch "tank" is clearly not the word to use. The GB was a tank. Does your Switch seriously feel like it would survive what GBs can easily shake off?

(SignOfZeta)

(10:27:43 03/31/17 EST)

The 3DS problem is a well known one. The lower screen edges stick out too much, which presses into the upper screen. Nintendo even provides a foam inlay to keep between the screens. They knew. Hold a Switch once, its extremely sturdy. The ridiculous YouTube tests have backed that up, a dozen drops on concrete and no real problems.

(Mental)

(13:50:10 04/06/17 EST)

A foam insert? Which version of 3DS are we talking about? I've had an OG DS, DSi, and 3DSXL, I've played the shit out of all of them and there is zero defect in either screen. They don't touch. The clamshell design *saves* screens, it doesn't usually wreck them. If some particulaly flawed iteration of the DS has this issue that's a bummer, I guess I was lucky to not buy that one. The overall design has no reason to ruin screens though.

(SignOfZeta)

(00:22:36 04/07/17 EST)

It was on the original 3DS.

(Mental)

(05:14:26 04/17/17 EST)

Not so sure about "tank."

(Jeurja)

(00:24:21 04/02/17 EST)

Youve had trouble with it?

(Mental)

(13:51:00 04/06/17 EST)

Are you seriously not able to vaguely ascertain the durability of an object just by holding it, before it breaks? An Atari 2600 is a tank. The PSP is not. The Switch is clearly a skin tight piece of engineering. Even with an alloy body like an iPhone it would still be fragile when compared to GBA or Cube. I suppose it's possible for someone to be such an obedient consumer that they can't even tell when they are holding something flimsy so...naturally it's true with you. I wonder, if every Switch stank of cat piss if you'd be able to somehow smell around it for the sake of Nintendo.

(SignOfZeta)

(21:03:41 04/10/17 EST)

I'm glad someone is keeping the console fanboy wars alive over here :3

(exodus)

(17:05:25 04/11/17 EST)

I have one. Its not flimsy. Nowadays idiots throw their 300 dollar hardware around like its a yoyo, but that doesnt make it flimsy. You dont even own one, right? So from what experience are you whining?

(Mental)

(05:16:18 04/17/17 EST)

Me owning one isn't going to teach me anything more than it taught you. Since I'll someday have one we'll be able to test this. What you seem genuinely too stupid to understand is that in not attaching thing for being a flimsy POS, I'm simply saying that it's very design puts it in a class of product where durability and reliability are not highly regarded. An Apple Watch is a durable watch by the standards of smart watches but compare to watches in general it's like wearing an egg on your wrist. An egg that isn't even waterproof. It's a fucking joke that a $700 smart watch isn't as durable as something that cost $35 from Timex but that's the market force at hand in 2017. If nobody wants durability then companies stop wasting their own cash working it into the design. Doing away with true durability makes a lot of things possible but it's a trade off for sure. I've seen enough pictures to know how thin the plastic is and I know they didn't invent some new ultra amazing plastic for this product. The "tanks" all died when analog sticks became mandatory, honestly, but the miniaturization fixation really sealed the deal.

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