iFixit has shared a full teardown video of the Change 2 Professional controller and isn’t impressed by how troublesome it’s to entry the $85 accent’s inner parts, together with its rechargeable battery that may inevitably lose its potential to carry a cost over time.
The net restore website 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 components and parts, together with the controller’s mainboard, earlier than its battery is even accessible.
As beforehand revealed, the Professional 2 continues to be utilizing older potentiometer-based joysticks which might be susceptible to growing drift over time. They do function a modular design that may 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.