The Joy-Con War Is Over. We Lost.

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I’m honestly going to be pretty upset if the Switch’s successor has drift issues.

I think the main issue with the lawsuits were that they claimed Nintendo designed the Joycons purposefully in a way that they would break down in no time while the more realistic option is that they are just low quality to cut on production cost.

I worked at Nintendo of America for their refurbishment department on Switchs for a bit, and yes it is well known that Joycons drift. When we got in the Switchs we had to check the joycons for drift and repair them if they were broken.

"I am taking preliminary steps to clean my room. Stay tuned." LOL

Can Nintendo at least give us an official Nintendo-brand coffin to store our dead Joy-Cons in?

One of the best Christmas gifts of the past few years was when my brother-in-law gave me a pair of joycon that were pre-modded with brand new thumbsticks that should never drift.

The first thing I did for my joycons was to replace the plastic rail clips with metal ones, and the second thing was to replace the sticks with hall effect replacements. My joycons are still the original pair that came with my switch, which is the original launch model switch, and with those modifications, they still work flawlessly. No drift, and they lock into the rails securely.

I wish some more people talked about the other issue with joy-cons: when old, they tend to slide off the switch just a tad, without having pressed the back button to slide them off. I swear I have never not pressed that button to slide them off, and yet without fail my joycons slightly slide off when played in handheld. It's like they can't handle the weight of the switch anymore. ALSO sometimes, they disconnect randomly from my switch as well, acting as if they lost all charges. This happens to me while playing splatoon. If I slide them on and off again, the problem stops. Seriously even without drift there are issues! I hope the switch 2's supposed magnetic-linked joy-cons will solve these issues

Damn. Joycons are now all cons and no joy! 😢

My joycons literally came with drift on Day 1. Literally the launch of the console, brought it home, booted up BotW. Stepped away when I got on top of the tutorial tower on the great plateau and I heard Link jump off and die from the other room. Got my pro controller that day too.

Planned Obsolescence is a really scummy practice, not only does it hurt consumers it is also bad for the environment. Most radioactive waste comes from discarded electronics, and I think that should incentivize companies to make them more sustainable. I love my switch, and I love a lot of Nintendo's output, but they gotta be transparent. Every Tech Company has to be transparent with this stuff.

Animal Crossing killed my ProControllers, too. I fixed my Controllers once and forever by inserting HallSensor Sticks. They now never break again, but also allow so much smother control.

The Drift is too powerful... Their lawyers have been listening to Running In The 90s the whole time.

"Preliminary steps to clean my room" - me at 32 when I pick up a sock and put it in the hamper and then collapse into a chair

My twenty year old gamecube controller still works fine after two whole decades. Meanwhile, modern day joy-cons last only a few months before they suffer stick drift. Sadly, when Iwata died, so did Nintendo's care for quality controllers.

Me: silently praying that my joycons don't drift since they haven't yet

Even cheap chinese emulation handhelds have hall-effect sticks in them. There is ZERO excuse to not include them in a real video game console

I got a switch pro controller 2 years ago and it developed severe drift in both sticks just over a year after I bought it (with a 1 year warranty). I asked them about the free repair/replacement program, and they said "There is no design issue with the Joy-Con controllers, and no widespread proactive repair or replacement effort is underway" which I screenshotted because it reminded me of "There is no war in Ba Sing Se." It's genuinely shocking to me that Nintendo not only didn't communicate clearly that they were doing so, but actually denied it when asked.

class action lawsuits: the lawyers make millions, and claimants each get $3.75 after filling out hours of forms