Gadgetory

a couple weeks back I did a video showing guys how you can switch out the shell on your Nintendo switch with a custom white body one around the same time that we were shooting that video a whole different shell designs started blowing up the internet at the moment I saw it I just knew we had to do a video on and that's a clear shell for your Nintendo now if you haven't seen it yet you should check out the white switch shell replacement in before because it's a little more long-form it shows a bit more of my trials and tribulations as I made mistakes but with the clear one things went a lot more smoothly although still the hiccup here and there just like last time I started to switching out the actual main switch body itself which is super easy all you're doing is taking off the back and keeping a few parts for things like the kickstand and the game flap but really simple you're not messing with anything else just the back part of the switch the joy comes though once again are where all the real fun happens now while I will say that this did not go over a hundred percent perfectly I did need to actually tear these down one or two times because I made a few little mistakes here and there buttons had to be shifted that kind of thing over all this to go a lot more smoothly than did with a white one I mean and got the whole thing done in a fraction of the time as last time and no missing screws this time thanks to not actually doing it over carpet like a moron now one thing I was really grateful for with this build was the fact that the middle piece on both joy cons was actually shaped properly this time on the white ones I still had to use the grey joint companies in the middle because the triggers weren't acting right but it wasn't that big of a deal because the only thing we lost was having a little bit of grey between the two shoulder buttons whereas with the clear one if we ended up having to use that grey one instead it just would have ruined the whole thing and just like with the white switch this one did come with button replacements you can't have more Super Famicom style buttons that are colorful and while I did use those in this build I got to say I actually think I'd like the plain black look a little better on this I just think that there's sort of this monotone design to having this clear shell and the colorful buttons can stick out just a little too much and so here we have the completed clear switch I gotta say this thing looks fantastic honestly I'm not a huge fan of how the actual main switch body itself works I mean I really appreciate the fact that unlike the white one it doesn't have some third party logos slapped on the back switch just mucks up the whole design but at the same time I think the insides of the switch itself are not quite as interesting as the Joye cons because the Joye cons look freakin amazing I think that's really just the biggest standout part of this design and it really makes me wish that Nintendo got back into doing designs like this for their official systems because obviously this is not an official Nintendo design just yet but they have a history doing this kind of stuff before you know in the earlier years especially during the late 90s when the main systems were the n64 in the gameboy color Nintendo messed around a lot with different clear or at least translucent designs for instance they did the atomic purple n64 controller 995 gets you an n64 in a second atomic purple color controller free and the gameboy color now as far as the mainline systems are concerned like the n64 the n64 was really the only system that Nintendo has done this really hardcore oh is that I mean they did a lot a different design they've a whole line of different n64 is called The Fantasticks which are just varying different translucent colors thanks : now as for handheld Nintendo was actually messed around with this idea a lot more the gameboy color in fact wasn't even the first time they did this the original Gameboy pocket came in a clear color as well and they messed with the same translucent design on the Gameboy Advance and then it kind of died down for a while with the DS but it even made a return more recently with the 2d s getting a clear red clear blue and clear black design that was exclusive to Japan so it's really not that crazy to think that eventually Nintendo could get back into doing these kind of designs for the switch in particular I mean the 2d yes translucent designs weren't that long ago and while I think that we probably are going to see something where the back of the switch is gonna be clear like this I do think the possibility of getting translucent controllers is a very real possibility and it just looks so awesome I mean the designs look cool before with like the Gameboy in the n64 but the circuitry inside was so much more simpler back then I mean you see the layers of parts going on inside of here it just creates such an awesome looking device now when it comes to this one versus the white shell or any other custom shells you can buy out there I definitely think this one is by far the coolest I mean if we're gonna do any kind of exchange like this this is a great idea to go with the only reason I would maybe advise checking out the white one as well though is because a you don't worry about messing up any the insides and then all of a sudden having a weird-looking controller but also because white is really easy to paint over and reduce so if you really want to get handy and kind of do your own sort of unique design where you do your own paint job your own logo or anything like that white ones can be an excellent choice for that otherwise clears pretty easy win