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One of the biggest issues that’s plagued the Nintendo Switch since its launch in 2017 is stick drift. In fact, Nintendo faced several lawsuits as a result of the issue, with an ex-repair supervisor previously stating that the workload to fix drifting Joy-Con was “very stressful”.
Now, while we can acknowledge that Nintendo has undoubtedly been working hard behind the scenes to mitigate the issue for the upcoming Switch 2, we’re nevertheless disheartened to confirm that the Joy-Con 2’s joysticks will not be Hall Effect.
This doesn’t hold true for every country though. So a lot of people are better off buying some third party controller or not giving any money to Nintendo at all.
That’s fair. I forget about my US centric mindset at times.
I couldn’t get in contact with Nintendo in Mexico, I ended up buying those AliExpress repair kits and did it myself after several frustrating hours.
Just for reference in case someone needs it, Nintendo is “offering” free joycon replacements in North and South America, most of Europe (EU+EFTA+UK), Australia, and New Zealand.