Sondage: Les vidéos officielles de démontage de matériel deviennent de plus en plus courantes, Nintendo devrait-il également le faire?


Valve SteamDeck
Image: Soupape

Hardware teardown videos have become so popular, it’s got to the point where companies like Microsoft et Sony are now making official ones or are sharing a closer look in a controlled environment. It seems as if it’s an attempt to reduce the number of people doing this sort of thing with their own system, or posting similar videos online.

The latest one to join this trend is PC gaming giant, Soupape – with an official teardown of its new handheld device, the Steam Deck. It reveals the many componentsincluding replaceable thumbstick and SSD, while strongly advising users pas to do this with their own models. SEGA va grand sur la nostalgie pour, it also states how the consumer hasevery right to open it upand do what they want.

It’s got us wondering why Nintendo hasn’t done anything like this yet. Before its new Switch OLED model was even released, unofficial teardown videos were already appearing onlineand that’s set to continue now that the new system is out. If anything, it seems Nintendo’s attempts to stop people from opening up its devices only encourages them.

Valve has been praised for sharing a look at the internals of its new handheld gaming device ahead of release. Do you think Nintendo should have done something like this with the Switch OLED? Would you like to see it do official teardown videos in the future? Dites-nous ci-dessous.