The amount of money I had to spend buying/repairing joycons put me off playing the Switch at all. Wasn’t worth it.
And they’ve doubled down on their mistake with the Switch 2. Should eventually see another bigger fine, hopefully. €35 million is cheap for Nintendo.
they’ve doubled down on their mistake
How so? Is JoyCon drift still a thing on the Switch 2?
Read on launch that somebody asked Nintendo and they confirmed the sticks use the same flawed tech as the the original Switch.
If they didn’t go with hall effect sensors, the answer is yes
They still use potentiometer sticks, which degrade over time due to physical contact between all the bits vs hall effect and TMR which uses fancier magnets that require less physical content.
The big 3 console brands all don’t use HE or TMR, since potentiometer sticks are cheaper and they see the constant replacement of controllers (or their parts) by consumers as beneficial to their profits, making the shareholders and big business officials happy.
But then you have third-party brands like GuliKit, GameSir, and 8BitDo, who use HE or TMR to help differentiate from the big first-party players and to stand out from the crowd.
I had 2 pairs that they repaired for free. One of them twice. At that point it would have probably been cheaper to redesign them, but idk.
Not sure why you paid a lot to get them repaired, it was very easy to get the free repairs (at least in Europe).
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Wow. How many cents will we get each?
40ish million sold, so… 85¢ sound good?
Such value! Given that the joycons are like €85 for a pair, I’m getting so much back!
Imagine if fines actually scaled in a sensible manner. 🙃
Now do ps5 ones. I’ve bought three in three years and all the have developed drift. Not once, in thousands of hours of gaming on previous don’t systems, did that ever happen. I refuse to buy them again.
Who gets the money tho :)
Joystick controller technology HAS NEVER BEEN PERFECTED. Every handheld controller type I’ve ever had ends up having that one controller that drifts. N64, PS4, Oculus Quest, Windows, they all have a controller that drifts.
Hall effect sticks don’t have that problem, and they’re not new. Dreamcast controllers had one.
And nowadays third parties can make them even in the tiny joycon form factor.
TMR sticks are great, too. No drift after almost a year. And I don’t expect there to be for the lifetime of the product.
Nvr had any drift with my hall effect controllers, I didn’t even know what it was until my friend showed it to me
I’ve been using my steam deck since launch very regularly and so far no drift.
