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Nintendo Switch 2 owners are ripping apart their new Joy-Cons in record time to check the stick drift situation (www.gamesradar.com)

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[–] Phen@lemmy.eco.br 17 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Back when I used to play on the switch every day for several hours, I never had any issue at all with drifting. Several years later as I played less often, it started happening. Then when I didn't play for nearly a year, once I tried it again all of my joycons were unusable.

In the early years if was really confusing to me why everybody complained about it so much and I never had any issue, but it eventually caught up with me too. I just don't know if my anecdote is a coincidence or if it really is more likely to drift when you don't use it as much.

[–] awesomesauce309@midwest.social 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I only use mine to go on Tetris 99 binges every couple months and I’ve had a few joycons go bad

[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

Had mine since 2019 and my main joycons I usually use and I played the shit out of it until I got my steam deck. All 3 sets I have, still have zero stick drift.

Like I played it A LOT so maybe my version of a lot is not the same as those with stick drift?

[–] spitfire@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

How did you store them? Did they have any risk of getting more dust inside?

[–] Phen@lemmy.eco.br 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I had them plugged on the switch itself that was sitting on its dock, plus other joycons in a drawer.

[–] spitfire@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

If they were out in the open it was simply just dust collecting on them.

[–] MelodiousFunk@startrek.website 1 points 1 day ago

I think there's something to the sitting idle angle. My launch joycons started getting drift 4-5 years ago. I did the usual clean out, then cut some plastic to put more pressure on the stick back plate and they were surprisingly fine. Two years ago I picked up an OLED, and my primary switch got very little handheld use after that.

Fast forward to a few weeks ago, when I grabbed my launch switch to upgrade the firmware and run some tests. The sticks were basically unusable. I have a couple sets of Hall effect sticks laying around, I guess now is as good a time as any to put them to use.

[–] Phelpssan@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Seeing a teardown of the Joycon and how similar to the Switch 1 the sticks look was the main reason I gave up on purchasing one for now. ☹️

Maybe the small changes they made or quality improvements in materials will be enough, but the drift problem was such a major pain in the OG Switch that I don't want to risk dealing with that again.