One of the interesting side effects of reviewing hardware for a living is just how mercenary you become with a new bit of gear. We treat everything we receive with an appropriate level of care, of course, but you'd be surprised how often we open up a new machine mere moments after it leaves the box to have a good look at what's going on inside. Where I might draw the line, however, is taking a sharp pair of metal cutting scissors to a brand new gaming handheld like the Nintendo Switch 2—but then I wouldn't be able to fit a much bigger battery, like this intrepid YouTuber.
Join me in saluting the bravado, then, of Naga, who's not only cracked open a Switch 2 on their YouTube channel, but gone at it with a pair of scissors to fit an 8000 mAh battery in place of the regular 5220 mAh unit. As you'd expect, the new battery is physically larger than the old model, both in height and depth, requiring a significant chunk of a thin internal metal frame to be cut away in order to fit it within the plastic chassis.
