iFixit: the Swap 2 Professional is a ‘piss-poor excuse for a controller’

iFixit has shared a full teardown video of the Swap 2 Professional controller and isn’t impressed by how tough it’s to entry the $85 accent’s inner parts, together with its rechargeable battery that can inevitably lose its potential to carry a cost over time.

The net restore web site goes as far as to name the Professional 2 a “piss-poor excuse for a controller” for a number of completely different causes. Opening the controller requires you to first forcefully take away a faceplate held in place by adhesive tape earlier than a single screw is seen. However you’ll must extract a number of different elements and parts, together with the controller’s mainboard, earlier than its battery is even accessible.

As previously revealed, the Professional 2 continues to be utilizing older potentiometer-based joysticks which can be liable to creating drift over time. They do characteristic a modular design that can doubtlessly make them simpler to swap with third-party Corridor impact or TMR replacements, however reassembling the controller after that DIY improve would require you to interchange all of the adhesive tape you destroyed throughout disassembly.