{"id":6004,"date":"2020-06-30T19:28:14","date_gmt":"2020-06-30T19:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/nintendo-president-publicly-apologises-for-switch-joy-con-drift"},"modified":"2024-07-19T09:17:05","modified_gmt":"2024-07-19T09:17:05","slug":"nintendo-president-publicly-apologises-for-switch-joy-con-drift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/hardware\/nintendo-president-publicly-apologises-for-switch-joy-con-drift","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo president publicly apologises for Switch Joy-Con drift"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you own Nintendo Switch you are probably more than happy with your console. <\/p>\n

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Easy to use and with many great games, Switch quickly became one of the most popular gaming consoles over the last few years since its release in March 2017.<\/p>\n

And yet, there was one burning issue that plagued the experience of many, and it wasn’t particularly talked about until when Switch Joy-Con drifting lawsuit<\/a> came last summer.<\/p>\n

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We’re talking about “Drifting” Joy-Con controllers, an issue where controller movements are registered even when the analogue sticks are left untouched because sticks are “drifting”.<\/p>\n

The suit claims that Nintendo was fully aware of a defect which causes Joy-Cons to drift, but they did nothing to fix it and even charged people for its repair after their one-year warranty expires.<\/p>\n