Current Events > Nintendo engineers suggest joycoy drift "may never be fixed"

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https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/7/22715467/nintendo-joy-con-drift-never-fixed-switch-oled

the most expensive standard controller in console history at $80 and you just gotta accept that eventually they just break and you buy another. i never had issues with any console controller before, not like this. the dual shock 3 and 4 that came with my ps3 and ps4s still work just fine.

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The lesson here, that the industry will never adopt, is easily repairable and replaceable components.
The closest we've ever gotten was Sega carts that had removable save-RAM batteries.

These guys never figured out how to make an analog stick that doesn't break after a few months?

Might buy 3 more pro controllers at the end of the Switch's life just to preserve some way to play the games in a party setting smh
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My gf's joycon started drifting earlier this year and she barely used the damn thing. My joycon from my original Switch never had drift, but I traded it in for that revised model (did it for the slightly better battery life + 2 brand new joycons) in 2019. I played the revised Switch a hell of a lot less and almost exclusively with the Pro controller. Now mine is drifting.

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If Nintendo isn't willing to fix it they should be forced to license it out to third parties.

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Background_Guy posted...

These guys never figured out how to make an analog stick that doesn't break after a few months?

Videogame companies are too stingy to make optical analogs, and gamers are too stingy to buy them anyway.

They're joycoy on if they will ever be able to fix joycon drift

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Like how software engineers still can't figure out cameras in 3D platformers after 25 years, I guess the joystick is another engineering problem that will never be solved

Nintendo engineers:




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Rexdragon125 posted...

Like how software engineers still can't figure out cameras in 3D platformers after 25 years, I guess the joystick is another engineering problem that will never be solved

I never have any problems with the joy sticks on my playstation controllers. I don't hear people complaining about the Microsoft ones either

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Nintendo "engineers"

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_HayleyWilliams posted...

joycoy

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I heard this works and it is very easy to do.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vid8lIXmZwE


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I only use my pro controller because of drift. Handheld mode is nearly unplayable.

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This is why the lawsuit is necessary

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radical rhino posted...

Handheld mode is nearly unplayable.

Get a Hori Split Pad Pro

radical rhino posted...

I only use my pro controller because of drift. Handheld mode is nearly unplayable.

Same.

I had XBOX controllers for 15 years that never had this issue.

I think it's planned obsolescence.

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Mr Hangman posted...

Losers. Nintendo has failed to impress me for over a decade and they keep taking every opportunity to make themselves look worse.

What you are saying is considerably true for various reasons.... Lackluster system specs, overpriced shitty quality joycons, bad online, charging twice as much for premium online subscription to enable you to play a small amount of N64 and Sega Genesis games on the Switch, incredibly small amount of limited editions and amiibo enabling scalpers, limited time releases on some physical AND digital games, full priced remasters with hardly any considerable improvements, etc.. If I didn't love some of their IPs I would have abandoned them long ago as well.

Shit like this is why I don't feel bad about pirating switch games.
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Mist_Turnips posted...

Shit like this is why I don't feel bad about pirating switch games.

so you're stealing products from software companies who had absolutely nothing to do with the issue you're upset about?

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Nintendo way too often gets away with just throwing their hands up and saying "Idk who cares deal with it" and just moving on like there's not unfinished business and other shit that deserves addressing from them.

And when they do address anything, it basically boils down to "Idk who cares just deal with it".

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Giant_Aspirin posted...

Mist_Turnips posted...

Shit like this is why I don't feel bad about pirating switch games.

so you're stealing products from software companies who had absolutely nothing to do with the issue you're upset about?

Lol
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Giant_Aspirin posted...

so you're stealing products from software companies who had absolutely nothing to do with the issue you're upset about?

Not if they're first party

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So how do you know when you have drifting or is it like you know it when you see it? Ive had my Switch since launch and Ive never had any issues with the Joy-Con not working. But maybe it has and it just wasnt noticeable to me.

But I also primarily play using the Pro Controller so that could be a big factor.

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Does the pressure fix not work?

rexcrk posted...

So how do you know when you have drifting or is it like you know it when you see it? Ive had my Switch since launch and Ive never had any issues with the Joy-Con not working. But maybe it has and it just wasnt noticeable to me.

But I also primarily play using the Pro Controller so that could be a big factor.

For me, I first started noticing it browsing the eshop. Relatively small drifting up or down will constantly scroll.

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"Accept this because Nintendo wants to keep making money off of you" isn't something people should accept.

But they will.

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Nintendo won't fix it cuz people will keep buying new joycons and give dem more money

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Irony posted...

Not if they're first party

Nintendo EAD doesn't make anything except Mario, Zelda, and Animal Crossing these days. Metroid Dread and Prime 4 are both third party developers. Pokemon is TPC. Monolith makes all the xeno stuff. Fire Emblem is Intelligent Systems. Etc.

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Christian RULES posted...

Nintendo won't fix it cuz people will keep buying new joycons and give dem more money

Probably have shittons of sockpuppet storefront accounts selling the replacement analogs, as well.

Funkydog posted...

"Accept this because Nintendo wants to keep making money off of you" isn't something people should accept.

But they will.

And the alternative is....?

I swear people always say shit like this but never offer any solution themselves. You're not helping shit either!

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pkmnlord posted...

And the alternative is....?

https://youtu.be/Vid8lIXmZwE?t=365


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Lucky i still have my WiiU pro controller. Best controller out there IMO

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I have $10 counterfeit PS3 controllers that are now well over 10 years old that don't have joystick drift. (Or to be more accurate - I have three of them, of which one has always had the drift and the other two don't and never have. I have a fourth similar-age, but legit, PS3 controller as well, which also has no issues.)

I call bullshit on your crap Nintendo.

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Serious? Some idiot posting something about Nintendo. You all buying that.
He's not the idiot. You all are.

At least the Pro Controller is great

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radical rhino posted...

I only use my pro controller because of drift. Handheld mode is nearly unplayable.

My friend actually bought a handheld add-on that allowed you to connect the Pro controller. It looks pretty ridiculous
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what is even funnier is that the new switch will still use the same joy sticks thay have the drift problem. Like how the hell is Nintendo is incompetent when it comes to this stuff? I never had this issue with their other controllers in the past before.

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Prestoff posted...

Like how the hell is Nintendo is incompetent when it comes to this stuff?

Is it incompetence, though? Or is it just that it's cheaper to not fix it, and more profitable for people to keep buying new ones?

Keep in mind this is the same console that is notorious for the "sales" being total jokes.

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Trumble posted...

Is it incompetence, though? Or is it just that it's cheaper to not fix it, and more profitable for people to keep buying new ones?

Keep in mind this is the same console that is notorious for the "sales" being total jokes.

They fix it for free if you send them in

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Irony posted...

They fix it for free if you send them in

And how many people do that instead of just tolerating it or buying a new one? It can still be profitable to allow an error for those reasons and fix it for those who complain, if not that many people complain.

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Probably most, the others just stop playing their Switch.

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Trumble posted...

And how many people do that instead of just tolerating it or buying a new one?

How is that nintendo's fault?

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Background_Guy posted...

These guys never figured out how to make an analog stick that doesn't break after a few months?

They absolutely did. The issue is the way businesses work. They have likely locked in the analogue sticks at a low price, and changing it to something that doesnt break will increase the cost up past whatever their loss is for handling replacements. This isnt an engineering fault, (well the fact the issue existed to begin with is) its a management issue

PatrickMahomes posted...

How is that nintendo's fault?

It's not their fault that it happens (beyond them making low-quality hardware in the first place), but you can sure as hell count on them playing it to their advantage.

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Interestingly Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft all currently use the same joystick module. So it's probably gonna be a lot more common this generation unless Nintendo's issue is something else.

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