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Anyone who owns a Nintendo Switch will know about Joy-Con stick drift. It’s when the Joy-Con Control Sticks stop responding correctly, or suffer from "drifting." Complaints about Joy-Con drift were so ...

If you've ever played a Nintendo Switch for any length of time, you may have experienced the dreaded plague of Joy-Con drift. Like a gamer spirit using your controller as its own personal Ouija board, ...

A user teardown of the Nintendo Switch 2 Joy Cons revealed similar stick components. The Switch 1 Joy Cons have been plagued with drift problems for years. Other changes to the Joy Con design may ...

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The Nintendo Switch 2 is already a huge success. Nintendo is selling more units than it can manufacture, and it's likely the high demand will hold for quite a while. The original Switch (and the ...

After a tumultuous five-year legal battle, the class-action lawsuits against Nintendo concerning the infamous Joy-Con drift issue have been dismissed. This marks a significant victory for the gaming ...

TL;DR: Nintendo Switch users have long faced Joy-Con stick drift issues, leading to lawsuits and free repairs. The upcoming Switch 2 Joy-Con will not use Hall Effect sticks, which are less prone to ...

Stick drift comes for everyone, but Nintendo Switch hardware has a reputation for being particularly prone to failure. Naturally, everyone is wondering if the Nintendo Switch 2 and its new Joy-Con ...