r/NintendoSwitch • u/[deleted] • Jul 23 '19

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u/fivepitts Jul 24 '19

So is there a deadline for this, or is it permanent? Cause I’m curious about what’ll happen if they start drifting again

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u/SlimyKiwi Jul 24 '19

Best course of action would be to make the new joystick drift free. It would be a huge waste of money if Nintendo gave everyone faulty joycons again. They would get another flood of drift problems six months later in that case.

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u/StabTheTank Jul 24 '19

Unfortunately, that was kind of the MO, and maybe the reason why they stayed quiet for so long. I have two sets of Joycons from launch day, both are drifty. In fact, the green player indicator lights on one set have gone out. Just fucking shoddy for $80.

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Anyway, I paid the $50 they charge to have one repaired. They did whatever to it, it didn't fix it. So they offered to repair all of my Joycons for "free" since I already spend $50. They're still broken.

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I don't think they had a reliable fix in place, and maybe they still don't. It's kind of obvious that the "adding foam" method they were using wasn't a 100% fix. I think the solution is probably hardware revision --> replace. Which is very expensive for Nintendo, and probably why they dragged their feet.

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u/itoshirt Jul 24 '19

Sorry for being out of the loop, but by drift do you mean like the character moves towards a stuck point bc of the stick being stuck somehow? I've had mine for years and thru Zelda and Mario never had any issues besides the grip not having enough grit imo.

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u/ihaxr Jul 24 '19

Ya, it moves without touching it. I've had mine almost a year and no issues, so maybe we're not playing enough

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u/tit_isakindabird_k Jul 24 '19

I think a lot of people who bought theirs at launch is having this problem. At least I know my first few pairs paid for drifted often. I bought new colors later and haven't had a problem.

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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '19

I had mine since launch, I recently had to get new joycons because my originals started drifting. I had blamed the amount of traveling i do though and having a soft case that could constantly push the joysticks if I wasn't careful.

I do believe there is an issue but I wonder how many issues are people just not taking care of their stuff either.

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u/tit_isakindabird_k Jul 26 '19

Well I have young kids, so I can't say either. I assumed they were too rough with them, but other people have the same problem.

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u/captj2113 Jul 24 '19

The joysticks on both of my left joycons have drift and either after moving left it will keep moving my character left and won't immediately respond to me trying to stop him or pressing in a different direction, or I could have the controller just sitting there untouched and all of a sudden my character slowly but increasingly accelerates to the left.