Joysticks: Probably Still Drifty

Joy-Con joysticks use a potentiometer to read the voltage at a wiper that slides across a strip of resistive material. That material wears down over time, or plastic and dust can dirty the sensors.

Stick drift is a huge problem with other Switch models. One survey found that 40% of Switch owners had problems with their Joy-Cons drifting, and things didn’t get any better with the Lite or OLED editions. After a bunch of lawsuits, Nintendo’s president even admitted it and apologized, setting up a free repair program for customers in some parts of the world.

  • net00@lemmy.today
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    22 days ago

    I can’t understand why they still ship a plastic screen. Surely there are other ways to keep glass from exploding that don’t involve a top plastic layer.

    I got a screen protector first thing for mine. In a matter of months any unprotected screens will turn into shit.

    I guess this is typical nintendo, haven’t bought anything from them since the 3ds.

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      22 days ago

      Your post is a little confusing. If you haven’t bought anything from them since the 3ds, then how did you put a screen protector on your Switch 2?

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        22 days ago

        I meant that prior to the switch 2 I only had a 3ds. I’ve been out of the loop on nintendo stuff during all that time

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      22 days ago

      Is glass exploding even that much of a problem?

      Dropping an iPad doesn’t even break the screen all the time and when it does it’s garbled.

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        21 days ago

        Not sure, but they anticipate a lot of children having this device in their hands, so they’re going to design it for that, perhaps even over-design it, just in case.