Don’t take off the Switch 2’s screen protector

If you’re picking up a Switch 2 this week, resist the urge to remove the screen protector you’ll find applied to the console out of the box. This is actually a “film layer designed to prevent fragments scattering in the event of damage,” and the Switch 2’s European safety manual, spotted by fan site NintendoSoup, specifically warns not to peel it off.

This advice might sound familiar, because the Switch OLED had a similar anti-scattering layer with the same warning. In both cases, the...