In front of me I have Nintendo's latest console; The NES Classic Edition.
At only 59 dollars I could not pass it up.
It has 50 games preloaded, including all the graphically violent games my mom wouldn't
let me play as a kid.
But since I'm now an adult...
I can play whatever I want.
After my room is clean...
Of course.
Opening up the box we find a poster, and probably some instructions.
Here is the controller.
The red buttons and direction pad are made of hard plastic but the center, start and
reset buttons are made of grippy rubber.
The controllers cable is protected by the blue plastic and after pulling that off, it
seems very very short.
The original NES controllers had a 6 foot cable.
The NES Classic controller you see here, only measures to about 30 inches.
And I imagine most people don't plan on sitting inches away from their big screen TV...
I did see that wireless controllers are being sold, and controller extension cables are
pretty cheap, Ill link those in the video description along with the console and everything
else you see in this video so you don't have to be all up in Mario's business while you're
playing.
Ill open up that controller in a minute.
Lets go back to the box.
Under the controller there is a wall charger with a USB slot, Ill set the console off to
the side, and lift up the cardboard, to find the included HDMI cable and the micro usb
power cable that gives power to the NES Classic.
And finally, here is the console itself.
It is a cute little guy much smaller than I thought it would be.
It Has the HDMI port and the micro usb power port on the back.
And the power and reset buttons on the front.
The cartridge slot is purely for decoration and does not open, unfortunately.
What would have been really cool is if you could put Game Boy Games in this thing.
Now this is where the average person would consider their product opened.
And where the average YouTuber would end their 'unboxing experience'.
But...
here on my channel we keep going.
There are no visible exterior screws on the Nintendo.
Which leaves the only other obvious place for screws... under these little rubber foot
pads.
Ill pop those off, and stick my long shaft Philips head screw driver into the hole to
remove the four screws.
And then the NES Classic will open exposing the internals.
Its pretty simple on the inside.
A lot less complicated then the Original NES that I opened up a few years ago on my channel.
Ill link that video at the end of this one.
Then there are 5 more screws holding the main board to the plastic frame.
Before the main board can be lifted out there are 3 connections we have to remove.
Two of them with these super tight white plugs.
And then one little ribbon off to the side.
This is the same type of ribbon that we've seen in multiple other cell phones before.
Now that the board is out we can see that the micro USB and the HDMI ports are both
soldered to the main board.
Nothing is really modular here.
Then the metal plate pops off the opposite side
Here is the brains of the whole operation.
All the preloaded games are here, and the processor.
The metal plate even has some thermal foam attached to it to help the heat dissipation.
You know, since the Nintendo has some pretty intense graphics.
The power and reset buttons are pretty standard.
You can see how they operate here.
And the controller plugs can also be swapped out pretty easily.
There is just one screw holding the bottom to the frame.
Ill put the console back together real quick before we teardown the controller.
The plastic bracket over the power buttons, then the 5 screws on the main board and each
of the three little plugs.
The whole build of this gaming system is incredibly simple.
The plastic shell goes on top, and then 4 more screws go through the bottom.
Don't forget to reinstall the little rubber foot pads as well.
Now onto the controller.
This was pretty interesting.
There are 6 Philips head screws on the back holding it together, After those are removed
the back housing comes free.
Showing us the wrap around, folded cable, and the first plug.
Ill explain why the cable is tucked in like that in just a second.
Flipping the controller over you can see the integrated circuit as well as the little contact
pads that can sense when each button is being pressed.
Believe it or not, this controller is more complicated than the original controller.
Ill link the teardown of an original controller that I did about three years ago, at the end
of this video.
The four sided thumb pad is hard plastic on the top and rubber underneath with the same
type of contact pads that the rest of the buttons have.
Then the plastic tops of the A and B buttons just slip out of their slots as well.
Ill line up all the buttons with their holes and slip the controll board back into place
over the top of them.
The reason that the cable is wound between all the little pegs is so that when the controller
is pulled or dropped or thrown against the wall.
All of the stress just ends up tugging on the cord of the cable and not any of the actual
plugs or more important internal components of the controller.
Its a pretty smart design since controllers are the most abused pieces of any console.
If Nintendo can get their inventory in order and make enough of these consoles for everyone
who wants one, this is going to be one of the most popular Christmas presents of the
year.
The only flaw I see is the short controller cables.
Ill link the console and the controllers in the video description so you can check the
current pricing if you're interested.
Let me know what your favorite Nintendo game was down in the comments.
If you enjoyed watching this tear down, make sure to check out the original Nintendo system
that I took a part a few years ago.
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Thanks for watching!
Ill see you around.