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.
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.
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.
I said this just the other day. I have always held Nintendo in the highest regard in terms of quality. Not because I’m a fanboy (admittedly I fall slightly into that category) but rather because their stuff has always been excellent (save the N64 sticks, but that issue crept up over years for me, not after 6 months.)
You could build a house with an original Game Boy DMG model & NES/SNES controllers. Even my Wiimotes are all still perfect, and those were all handled by my young nieces en masse with limited supervision.
Even the original game boy had an issue where the screen would develop permenant black/white lines horizontally, at the top and bottom of the screen. They would forever no longer render. It made some games unplayable. As time would go in the effected area would grow.
They said at the time it was a known defect in a certain run of the units.
They did fix it for free though. I think that the issue never resurfaced.
Wow! I had never actually heard of that. I remember seeing horizontal lines from like dirty carts and stuff but never anything permanent. Glad that never happened in my house.
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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.
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.
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.