If you've ever played a Nintendo Switch for any length of time, you may have experienced the dreaded plague of Joy-Con drift. Like a gamer spirit using your controller as its own personal Ouija board, ...

Joy-Con drift, in which the dual Nintendo Switch motion controllers will move in-game assets without any input from the user, ...

There is no doubt the Nintendo Switch is one of the most popular gaming consoles ever. Its games are great, and the portability is a plus, but it’s controllers...well. Controller failure—dubbed ...

According to leaker NextHandheld, the Switch 2 is making a concerted effort to address Joy-Con drift. The Switch 2 will reportedly use hall-effect joysticks, which have contactless tracking, ergo no ...

Consumer watchdog Which has urged Nintendo to provide a compensation option to buyers that have experienced Joy-Con drift. In a new study, the organisation tested five pairs of Joy-Cons sourced from ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Pretty much since Nintendo first introduced controllers with joysticks, it’s had issues with drift ...

If you’ve owned a Nintendo Switch, then you’ve dealt with this issue, the dreaded “Joy-Con Drift”! It’s an issue so widespread among Switch users that it sparked a class-action lawsuit against the ...

Nintendo has been repairing Switch players' Joy-Con "drift" issues for free, even if they're no longer under warranty, in North America since 2019. Over the past years, it has launched the same ...

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In context: The Nintendo Switch has been notorious for stick drift problems since 2017 and this issue continues to affect users. A UK watchdog has renewed calls for Nintendo to fix the situation, ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The company has started offering free repairs for Joy-Cons inflicted with stick drift in the UK, Switzerland, and ...

Anyone who's spent a lot of time with the Nintendo Switch gaming console has either encountered or heard of one of the most common issues with the Joy-Con controllers: drift. Joy-Con drift occurs when ...