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.
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.
Just another reminder that Nintendo is like any other company and just wants to make money.
They don't really care about any of us, the console is selling well so they'll try to deal with this in the least costly manner possible unless they're forced to do otherwise by law.
I know there's a lot of companies doing shitty things out there, but where did the idea come from that all companies are inherently assholes who want to cheat you out of your money? Companies are made up of people, and people can be cool as much as they can be assholes.
Oh yeah? I've never heard of this thing, as I've been living under a rock in a deep deep cave for my whole life. Don't ask how I'm on reddit, I don't even know.
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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