The Nintendo Switch 2 manual has just surfaced, and with it comes some information about the portable console that users are advised to take into account. We learned that the screen is covered by a plastic film... which the company forbids you to remove under penalty of causing irreversible damage.
We noticed it during our test of Mario Kart 2 on the new console: a plastic film actually covers the screen of the next generation of Switch. It must be said that the Japanese firm was forced to make some surprising choices to develop what is undoubtedly the most anticipated device of the moment. Including an LCD screen rather than OLED, and what seems to be a generation of chips a little behind the latest available on the market.
All this allows Nintendo to deliver the Switch 2 on time – taking into account the complexity of industrially manufacturing millions of units. But also and above all to contain its significant manufacturing costs. Because, believe it or not, despite a higher price and arbitrations to cut a few (costly) corners, the manufacturer should sell its initial stock of units at a loss. The firm nevertheless does what it can to make people forget it.
This plastic glued to the Switch 2 screen is not what you think
Which leads it to refine the player experience and make the most of the available components. Which brings us to a mention in the machine's user manual, after its appearance on the internet (via The Verge). The film in question, which we mentioned at the beginning of the article, looks like a screen protector that the user can choose to remove. However, this is not the case, Nintendo warns in the manual's safety recommendations.
We can indeed read that it is a "laminated film designed to prevent the dispersion of fragments in the event of damage."Understand that the company wants to prevent the user from cutting themselves in the event that the LCD screen is broken by a significant impact. This type of panel is in fact always constructed as a sort of "sandwich" of glass with liquid crystals (yum!). This protective film thus acts less as a protection against scratches, than as a large piece of tape that holds everything together in the event of accidental breakage.
The company had already opted for a similar solution on its Switch OLED with the same type of warning... which remains useful. Users, a little lost between brands that apply removable films, others non-removable films and those that do not apply anything, have repeatedly shown their tendency to commit the irreparable on state-of-the-art devices.
We remember, for example, the first Galaxy Folds broken in less than 24 hours... some having had the good idea of removing this strange film covering the internal foldable screen of the device.
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