Nintendo Switch players can breathe a sigh of relief: Annoying problem apparently eliminated

Hardworking Nintendo Switch gamers will know the problem - the so-called "Joy-Con-Drift".

However, according to the developers, the deficiency could now be resolved.

When using the Nintendo Switch * for a long time, gamers often encounter the "Joy-Con-Drift".

This means the wear and tear of the thumbsticks, which ensures that you move around even when you are at rest.

This deficiency makes it difficult, for example, to stand still while trying to operate the menu.

This is an annoying problem for most players.

Now the developers Ko Shiota and Toru Yamashita are making hope that this could be history in the future.

Nintendo Switch: Joy-Con controllers have been improved according to the developer

According to the developers, wear and tear on the Joy-Cons is inevitable.

However, the analog sticks have been regularly improved in recent years

to ensure

a

.

For this purpose, the sticks were subjected to a wear test in which the stick was rotated under constant load.

Internally, the test processes themselves have even been improved in order to extend the shelf life of the Joy-Cons: “The parts of the Joy-Con analog sticks are not something that can be bought off the shelf, they were specially developed,” emphasizes Yamashita.

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The decisive factor here is the

: There has been a lot of research to find out which materials harmonize best with one another - and this knowledge was immediately integrated into the Joy-Controllers: "When the effects of our improvements were confirmed, we immediately put them in built in the Joy-Con controllers that came with the Nintendo Switch Lite console and in the separately sold Joy-Con controllers manufactured at the time, ”said Yamashita.

For players who have just bought a new Nintendo Switch, this means:

.

The separately available Joy-Con controllers and the Nintendo Switch Pro controllers that are currently being delivered also already contain the latest version of the analog sticks.

According to the developer, the adjustments are not visible from the outside.

It remains to be seen whether the latest improvements are actually enough.

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Joy-Con Drift: A Long-Standing Problem

Defective Joy-Cons have long been a red rag for the Nintendo Switch community.

At the beginning of the year, the European consumer association BEUC even got involved in the matter and filed a

with the EU Commission

.

As

reported, the BEUC accused the company of “early obsolescence” because in over 88 percent of cases the Joy-Con drift would occur after less than two years.