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Tom’s Hardware
Tom’s Hardware
Technology
Hassam Nasir

Nintendo Switch 2 motherboards with chips are already available for $124 in China — PCBs sourced directly from the production line

Switch 2 PCB from Goofish (16:9).

Just two weeks after Nintendo's Switch 2 launched, Chinese resellers have reportedly already acquired production-line motherboards of the console, now offering them for just $120 on local marketplaces like Goofish via HXL on X (formerly Twitter).

The reseller's images depict a panelized PCB design, a manufacturing technique in which multiple individual PCBs are arranged on a single PCB during production. In later stages, manufacturers and assemblers, like Foxconn in the case of the Switch 2, separate or depanelize them.

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