{"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
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 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 Nintendo quietly acknowledged this issue last July and the first step was to no longer charge costumers<\/a> when they come with Joy-Con drift issues, but they have never publically issued any official statement, until now.<\/p>\n Yesterday, in a Japanese Q+A meeting, Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa has officially apologised for the “inconvenience” caused by Joy-Con issues.<\/p>\n He didn’t want to talk more about it due to the ongoing class-action lawsuit, which was sent to arbitration in May<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\nAnalogue sticks faulty is causing the “drift” effect (Picture: Nintendo)<\/span><\/p>\n\n
\nThe same drifting problem prevails on Switch Lite (Picture: Nintendo)<\/span><\/p>\n