A patent filed by Nintendo suggests that they’re working on Hall Effect style joysticks for the Switch 2 that would eliminate stick drift almost entirely.

    • Diasl@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 year ago

      That’s really not the case, my switch got very light use (like a couple of hours a month) and after about 14 months it started drifting.

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      1 year ago

      I’ve had my Switch since launch and haven’t had any drifting issues. My brothers both had it though, so I think I’ve just been incredibly lucky.

    • Toad_the_Fungus@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      the left joycon on my switch started drifting after a couple of years, meanwhile the gamecube controller ive had and used for about 20 years still works perfectly

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      1 year ago

      For me the issue was much worse than drift. One of my joy-cons, that were not really used all that much so the “abusing your controllers” would just be false, just decided that it didn’t want to work on the Y axis any more, and the quick fix was the add some credit card thick cardboard behind the joystick box. The controllers were just really badly made in the first place.