Arlo discusses the joycon drift issue. He acknowledges that while Nintendo has tried to rectify things by offering to replace joycons free of charge, he still has several problems with how the company has handled the issue.
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Arlo: Nintendo's Hardware Quality Is Starting to Drift...
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Arlo discusses the joycon drift issue. He acknowledges that while Nintendo has tried to rectify things by offering to replace joycons free of charge, he still has several problems with how the company has handled the issue.
I feel like I am the only one with so many people reporting on it. Still have my launch ones, use them daily, never had an issue.
Can't watch the video right now, does he mention the situation that we have in Europe right now? I barely use my Joy-Con, but the fact that I can't lend them to my girlfriend while she sends theirs for a second time to customer support because mine don't work either and I got my Switch at launch, which means that NoE won't repair them because they're out of warranty, is pretty fucked up.
Hopefully NoE will follow NoA on replacing those for free.
Still makes me paranoid it's going to happen someday, my Pro Controller did drift several months ago but after blowing inside it, it was fixed so I guess it was just some dust.
Same, it's just the nature of hardware lottery.
Still makes me paranoid it's going to happen someday, my Pro Controller did drift several months ago but after blowing inside it, it was fixed so I guess it was just some dust.
As said in another thread, I have another issue. Randomly my TV becomes Black for half a second when I play docked. I think it has to do with the video output either of the console or of the dock.
It sucks.
It sucks.
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He does mention how the replacement solution seems to only be for certain countries.
I bought mine in May 2017 and never had any issues either, thankfully. Not saying the problem doesn't exist though, of course.
What does bother me though is the material they chose for the console/controllers, since it gets dirty pretty easily from regular use, and because of it I'm constantly cleaning my Switch so it doesn't look greasy.
Edit: The dock scratching the back of the console also bothers me a lot.
oh absolutely, a few friends experienced the drifting, definitely aware of the problem.
I'm at the point where I've had to have so many of these things replaced myself that it's tough to convince me that people who report no issues just haven't noticed or paid much mind to the Bluetooth/drift issues. I know that's not entirely right but my experience has been so bafflingly, consistently poor that the thought of a set of perfectly working launch Joy Con in late 2019 just reads like bullshit to me :(
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I also don't have this problem. But enough people do where I just recognize I got lucky. It sounds fucking awful
Y'all just reminded me while I have no issues with Switch so far (knock on wood) I had sooooooooooo many problems with the (3)DS line of systems. One time I had to return 4 or 5 DSlite in a row because the entire batch at that store had screen issues until I just asked my money back and bought one somewhere else. I've had so many dead pixels, touch screen problems, faulty repairs etc with pretty much all of my DS and 3DS units except the "new" and 2DS line of systems.
Any word on whether they improved it with the base console upgrade? I guess we can't know for sure until enough time has passed.
Yeah switch is kind of shitty built for a nintendo product. They are usually really well built
Weird that Xbox has the best built hardware now from the controller to the console they are just MILES ahead of both sony (shitty controller, bad cooling and loud consoles) and nintendo (mostly the joycons - switch itself is ok imo)
Weird that Xbox has the best built hardware now from the controller to the console they are just MILES ahead of both sony (shitty controller, bad cooling and loud consoles) and nintendo (mostly the joycons - switch itself is ok imo)
I just submitted a ticket to get my repaired again. I paid in the past for a fix, not cool Nintendo.
Joy-Cons (drift) and PS4 Pro (jet engine loud, shitty cooling) compete for worst hardware I've ever owned.
Lots of people bought pro controllers and their Joycons have under 10 hours of use. So when they do use them they're still like new.
That's how I felt with almost every other console. I've had almost every console and other than one red ring of death, have been extremely lucky. With my switch, been through two sets of joycon. First had the disconnect issue and had to be sent in, then they drifted. Then my custom ones started drifting this year. First my left, then suddenly my right. My son has been through like two pairs too. I finally had to learn how to replace them myself. I baby my electronics too. Bit of a bummer.
Do you route your switch through a HDMI splitter, switch, or receiver by chance? I have this problem sometimes and I use a receiver. I find that if I restart the receiver the problem goes away. None of the other consoles do this.
I have logged hundreds of hours on my launch Switch using only the pair of joy cons that came with the system. Docked, undocked, inside and outside. Thankfully mine have not started to drift, yet.
With that said, my right joy con has lost part of the semisphere(?) under the analog stick which makes it uncomfortable to use, and the joy con itself does not lock itself in the rail anymore. Separate issues, I know, but I've handled my switch like a baby and I'm sad to see the durability of Nintendo hardware not being as good as I'm used to.
With that said, my right joy con has lost part of the semisphere(?) under the analog stick which makes it uncomfortable to use, and the joy con itself does not lock itself in the rail anymore. Separate issues, I know, but I've handled my switch like a baby and I'm sad to see the durability of Nintendo hardware not being as good as I'm used to.
The JoyCon sticks need a new design, period. It's just too easy for dust to get into the mechanism.
Not joycon related persay but my pro controller's R button is starting to drop inputs if I don't press hard enough. The L button is the same as it always was though. It's really noticeable in a game like Monster Hunter where you hold R a lot. Anybody else have this problem? This would not be the first Nintendo device I own to have messed up shoulder buttons :(
I indeed use a splitter, but the issue does not appear when I plug my PC in place of the switch.
I'll try to bypass the splitter and see
My left stick is a bit loose from use but no drift. Had mine since Christmas 2017.
Not launch, but I got my neon yellow ones the day they came out 2+ years ago and I haven't had any issues with them
I was extremely lucky, as my original right joycon started to drift a couple of months before my warranty was up and I was able to get it fixed for free. My OG left joycon has just now started to show signs of drift and I live in the US, so it's good to know Nintendo will rectify the situation for free if I need to send it in. I think my left joycon outlived my right by over a year because I got a second set of joycons and a pro controller around the same time that I sent the right one in for repairs, so wear and tear has been distributed across multiple controllers.
I definitely agree with Arlo here. I'm also a longtime Nintendo fan and I have to say the way they've handled this has been uncharacteristically shady (although the amount of time it took them to acknowledge and address the problem was probably not all that uncharacteristic tbch).
I definitely agree with Arlo here. I'm also a longtime Nintendo fan and I have to say the way they've handled this has been uncharacteristically shady (although the amount of time it took them to acknowledge and address the problem was probably not all that uncharacteristic tbch).
Same same. Mine are rock solid with a thousand hours of play.
Cheap when it came to technology, not build quality. Nintendium became a thing for a reason. The original Game Boy was basically a black box which is why one that survived a bombing in the Gulf War is still on display at the Nintendo World Store.
Try a different HDMI cable. My htpc did the same thing and when i changed the HDMI cable it stopped doing that.
The original GameBoy back then maybe, yes. But I've been through three 3DS's because of the shitty screen. They get these black dots everywhere, not dead pixels; and it gets worse by the day. You end up with the screen covered in these dots.
That's too far back, this issue isn't starting with the Switch the DS and 3DS had problems like this too.
GameCube could literally survive being tossed off the roof of a two story building. Those fuckers were strong.
The 3DS was really bad on build quality, so it's not a surprise that the Switch would have issues, as well.
I haven't had any drifting that I know of. I don't even know what drifting is. My controllers seem to still be fine. I have the Odyssey LE version.
Nintendo has never been free from hardware issues: blinking NES systems, SNES shoulder buttons cracking, N64 controllers that wear down and feel shitty quickly, 3DS screen scratching. These weren't RROD level bad but still sucked. Hopefully new Switch systems fix the joycon problem.