The whole “we haven’t received many reports so that means it doesn’t exist” is so frustrating to me. I didn’t call up Mr. Sony to let him know I had a yellow light of death so he could add it to the stat books. A lot of people have drifting joycons and aren’t reporting it.
Yeah I certainly don't have a hotline to nintendo, and I wouldn't know who to tell that my original joycons AND the ones I bought to replace them have drift.
@@fluffynator6222 didn't really want to send them off somewhere and be without controllers. They shouldn't break so quickly in the first place, nothing else matters.
i’m so sad bc i’ve waited a year of left joystick drifting and right trigger being broken to buy a new set for new pokemon snap & fml but thanks for confirming
I have 3 sets of joy cons that I have used about 1 year apart from each other. Here are my experiences 1. The first sets only lasted around a year before drifting. I ignored it until the flap of the joy cons rubber control stick came off and I was left with this plastic skeleton of a joy stick. Even To this day, I have never used them since two years ago 2. These joy cons drifted after five days and gradually got worse. One time I used rubbing alcohol but it only worked for a month until drifting again. These were the only pair I asked to get fixed/replaced and after 3 months I got them back without anything being fixed. Bullshit 3. Finally the set I have now I’d drifting as I am typing this. I was playing miitopia and I acidentally used my sprinkles on a different character than intended because of drift. Bonus: the pro controller is the only one I have that has not experienced any problems. But I’ve only had it for a year so it might just be a matter of time
I fixed mine thru on screen calibration. You have to do what it says to move the joycons just right. Then it fixes each set. I did this 2 years ago and still working! If I ever get around to it I'll do this to my wired controllers too!
@@kylehill3643 for the type of drift I have in mine and other people I've talked to, calibration doesnt work. Calibration basically resets the neutral point, but the drift is sporadic and varies in intensity
@@kvleggo The thing is, for me it seems to be a software problem. I've bought over 10 different pro controllers and joy cons, and every one of them but one set of china fake controllers, of that i even got 50% off because a review, they absolutely deserved, developed joy-con drift after pretty much exactly 2 months of low usage.
@@fleisch4809 once it started happening with my pro controller it just severely limits what i can play. Not every game has sensitivity options like that, but some like AC or BotW, p much unplayable when you are constantly creepin forward
Not really, hobbyist engineer here, seeing as that's an issue with all compact, non-slider, style joysticks. For example the Vita also had/has big issues with "joycon drift". It's due to never being able to 100% close off a moving part to any dust. The reason why consoles like the PS4, 360, Gamecube, etc. don't suffer from it is that they big open design where dust can easily enter but also easily leave and on top of that much less susceptible to dust. Or in simple terms, because they are tiny joysticks, slider joysticks are unpopular and using normal joystick mechanisms would make every joycon housing fat (read 2 to 3 cm thick, or for americans roughly an inch) not counting the joystick that actually sticks out of the joycon.
Bruhhh my 3ds one literally still works. You know i remember the old wii nunchuk analog sticks having drift too. I would be playing skylanders or disney infinity and my characters kept walking even after i set it down. Id have to unplug and re plug it in. They should've stuck with the 3ds version. 🤣
And to reporters and costumers, they still deny it and pretend it’s not real. Only when investors grill them, they apologise (and do nothing regardless).
@@flyingplantwhale545 I think they wanted to fix the joy con drift but it cost a lot of money to make repairs and plus with COVID-19 it gets even harder.
they knew this was a major design flaw and simply didn't care. plus the switch lite is even more susceptible to drift. in fact only 20 hours totals of play cause drift in the switch lite.
It's legitimately fascinating how Nintendo hardware has been so famous for it's durability (even Lego Mario went through tons of floor-drops), yet the Switch, Nintendo's comeback to more "serious" gaming consoles, has one of the most glaring hardware issues I've ever seen in a console.
It was rushed out the door 3-6 months too early, and sold so well that they decided the profits were too high to be worth doing something even remotely good for consumers.
@@mavrickindigo has nothing to do with the mobile game. Mobile game doesn't affect switch games. 8 Deluxe still sells well to this day, so there won't be a 9 for a good long while
80 bucks for a controller that doesn't last 2 seconds before it goes all over the place, i'd love it if companies stopped being greedy and just made a durable product for once these days
I sent in my joycon for drift repair once. They sent it back and I'm not even sure they did anything to it at all. It was literally drifting again day one.
I sent two joycons in for repair. IDK if they fixed the right one or not but they lost my left one and sent me a brand new one for free. The brand new left one immediately had connectivity issues.
Same thing happened to me! I sent one in to get fixed and it started drifting again less than 2 weeks after I got it back. I had to sent it in a second time and thankfully it’s been fine since then
Microsoft at least offered apologies for the RROD and acknowledged its existence, as bad as it was. The drift issue is frustrating because Nintendo's become arrogant and entitled again and doesn't give a damn.
One time Link walked into the range of a guardian lazer cus of drift and I got killed, and you have no idea how many times I got so close to walking off a cliff
As silly as it may seem... My parents have an aquarium right next to the TV stand. Guess where the wii u sits? Next to the aquarium. Their advice may seem silly, but silly people exist, and many people who are even considerably not silly may still do said silly thing because they don't realize why its silly. It's not because the water might get on the console. That's a no brainer. It's because water can cause a lot of issues for wireless signals. It's why our bodies are such an issue for instance. Oddly enough though, it can also help wireless signals if you get lucky in how they bounce off the water, etc. It's weird. So best practice is to just keep the consoles away from big bodies of water in general. Whether they be in a glass cage, or a meat one.
Nintendo switch control sticks are very short, compared to other consoles, very fragile to play with, I use my delicate Chinese hands and I’m still paranoid these sissy Nintendo joy cons will disintegrate like that Daffy Marvin classic on Planet X, bzzzzzzzzzzz
@@gavinphoenixballesteros3080 side note , Nintendo have proved with wii nunchuck control stick and GameCube control they can make controls without drift issues
I noticed that recently when I was playing that game recently. I thought something was wrong with it my controller and I carefully looked it over but didn't noticed physically wrong with it. It got worse over time that aiming in BOTW is difficult.
@@loveisuseless2921 I’m not sure. I’m sorry I can’t really answer your question. I got my switch when it first came out and sometime along the way it did this. It isn’t too bad though. I’m sure you’ll be fine even if it did. Look up your question and try to find an answer if it’s really bothering you. Hope you enjoy your switch :)
Yeah it can pretty much spoil your game totally particularly if you are playing a platformer such as crash bandicoot where staying in one place is vital to making it through the game, not so noticeable when playing rocket league as all it seems to affect is the menu moving down by itself or doing extra flips while jumping in a match. Nintendo really need to sort drift issues out it’s not good enough for a company selling to millions of customers
Guys we need to get this video outside of RUclips PLEASE! This problem has been going on for so long and Nintendo has done NOTHING to solve it. Please repost this video as much as you can. So please repost this video anywhere that Nintendo can see it.
assuming the best case scenario for Nintendo and joycons only have a 5% fail rate, and assuming everyone who got it only had to repair it ONCE, here is how much money Nintendo has made from this. # of switches sold (rounded down) = 60 million Fail rate = 5% (REALLY rounded down) 60,000,000 * 0.05 = 3,000,000 Total faulty joycon pairs = 3 million Price of joycons = $70 70 * 3,000,000 = 210,000,000 or $210 Million Dollars At absolute lowest this scheme has made Nintendo 210 Million dollars We live in a society I personally had to get new joycons FOUR TIMES
That's why i bought cheap third party controllers. What is funny about it is that they have lasted over a year without drift while the official joy cons started failing almost immediatly.
Mfw: Buys the $40 extra insurance from walmart Joycon drifts Nintendo doesnt acknowledge it Calls walmart for the insurance "Its still under manufacturers warranty, gotta use them first" Sold my switch
I never got the red ring of death for my 360's but my left joycon has been drifting for 2 years even after repairs and my right one just started drifting as well, im getting a pro controller.
@@lizardguyNA Doesn't help the drift seeing it's a faulty controller. I honestly tried it for anything cheap alternative since joy-cons are so expensive. It went right back into it.
@@lizardguyNA I've tried that before and it fixed the left one just a little but the right one still has it pretty bad. Unless Nintendo meant for the joycons to drift, then it is not working as intended, which would be Nintendo's fault. You shouldn't have to go through this trouble to get a perfectly fine joycon working properly in the first place.
@@MysticalTemptress But Sony is okay on that front? Also, try better, and try not smearing your own feces on the Controller because I really can't see how your lack of care of a product is the fault of anyone else.
Iwata was in charge when nintendo didnt let people upload RUclips videos about nintendo, or when they made the wii u. Nintendo doing shitty or stupid things isn't new
I remember getting my mom to play splatoon, because I wanted her to see how fun it was, and she got freaked out by the fact her inkling was moving by herself lol
@@165hy9 yes because it doesnt have analog sticks. Most games didnt even require the nunchucks, and even then, those sticks were made much differently than a standard joy con stick.
I have a DS I that's about 12 years old, the battery is cover looks like it's about to explode and the volume buttons only work when the DS feels like it, but by God does it work... with only one cartridge. Thankfully it's a 200 in 1 cartridge
I taught myself how to repair and reshell joycons and now whenever my friends and classmates get drift, I repair it for them for a small fee. Of course, I only ever get left joycons lol.
Same, i just got a bunch of my dad's screwdrivers and bought some joysticks off of amazon, I also learned how to replace the weak pieces of plastic that hold the joy cons into the switch.
I suspect after the passing of Satoru Iwata that quality assurance was bypassed some. I mean, I have every single Nintendo console and every single controller from every system still works >
Yeah I kind of agree it seems it’s like quantity over quality, just try and get as many switches in peoples homes but not worrying about the quality of the controllers
Since Nintendo representatives stated that the Switch saved their console business, its so very very sad that it feels so cheaply made to be sold and milked for high profit knowing fully well that it breaks so easily. I love the Switch and its concept. But Nintendo is seriously acting like Apple here.
It sucks what the Wii U did to Nintendo. Now they are playing their cards insanely carefully to the point where we don’t even have nearly the same experience as Wii U players did. There’s no themes on the switch, mii’s are scarce, and it seems like most games they are releasing that aren’t Zelda and Mario are just ports. Really sucks that one bad console can cause a company to be so careful and cheap even when they finally hit their stride again.
They don't want to admit it is a problem by announcing a revised Joy-Con with a better stick, because then they'd lose the court case. I'm willing to bet that their plan is to wait until the rumoured revision/successor is released. That way they can market the new design as simply being the next Joy-Con that are intended for the revision/successor, but are backwards compatible with the original model.
They can't really fix this because the joycons's entire design revolve around the use of cheap graphite pads for tracking movements. They can't fix it without a complete new controller design that use a different kind of joystick technology. Until then all they do is replace the cheap pads over and over that ultimately will all wear down sooner or later.
@@chamoo232 basicly this playstation used it in the ps5 controllers which is why your hearing those are failing too for the joycons its mostly cause there so small they cant use anything better then graphite for there thumbstick
Imagine you're playing smash and you're at grand finals and then you randomly walk off the stage because of drift (This is why people use Gamecube controllers, I have one that has the joystick half torn off and it works better than my joy-cons lol).
@@Dukfire - The gamecube controller might be the toughest controller Nintendo has ever made... The Wiimote with the rubber shell its a good contender tho, but you gotta take care of that nunchuck.
@@julianx2rl I've seen GameCube controllers go through walls. And the only time I've ever seen one break was a guy throwing it at full strength against a concrete floor. Still only split open a tiny bit.
@@Dukfire most professional Smash players use their own Gamecube controllers for a rare hardware issue with the face buttons that makes input a lot faster. Controllers with this condition are rare and expensive. But they are still great nontheless
@@TheGeckoNinja yep these are more durable than og ones , also some third party controllers are much better than the pro controller or the joycons the only thing missing could be the nfc and sometimes rumble(depending on the brand or model) but nfc is not vital and the gyroscope and hd rumble work fine
It make sense that your left one did that before the right one. It's a wear problem. It uses a graphite pad to detect movement and the left one is the most used. Once the graphite wears down you get deadzones and drift. It's inevitable.
They never said that. Nintendo’s own CEO publicly acknowledged the issue. This whole notion that Nintendo denied the existence of the issue came from a random Reddit post that gullible saps like you instantly believed.
Joycons still work fine since 2019. 2 DualShock 4s have drifted since. I truly do not understand cause it’s obviously a case by case thing, but nintendo gets all the hate
All I want is a Joy Con+ or some upgraded version. I'd pay full price. How can my wii nunchucks function flawlessly after almost 15 years of abuse but the joycons can't last a year?
I had 6 joycons and all of them drift. I'm gonna just have to figure out a way to replace every joystick it's gotten so bad. They should fix it before making a switch pro or anything else. It's making me hate the switch and go back to the 3ds and Wii
I’ve experienced this and it went so badly. What’s worst is that my island got accidentally wiped out so i went through joycon drift hell in ACNH for nothing 🥲
It’s funny because I JUST got my joycons back from being repaired. They did it quickly and for free, at least.I didn’t know they were charging people before, dang.
@@joshsfox6266 sent the left one to them in the middle of 2019 and it started to work fine, couple months later the right one started acting funny too. I guess what they do works since the left one hasnt been acting funny since
using alcohol or contact cleaner solves the issue....temporarily, i almost went through a whole can of contact cleaner just cleaning the joycon sticks, until Nintendo started the free fix program, but even still they wouldn't take in a pair of joycons i had already opened trying to fix the drift, so i had to buy some stick replacements from Aliexpress
Yup, I recently surveyed 11,500 Switch owners - over 65% said they had experienced drift, a 20% increase over last year. It's not going away, and the lack of a satisfactory response from Nintendo is damaging.
Drift affects Joy-con AND Pro controllers. My Pro controller got drift before any of my 4 Joy-cons did, and Nintendo repairs Joy-cons for free in the US and Canada but charge for Pro controller repair outside the warranty.
I think that's a little more normal other system pro controllers drift .with that said I've used my pro controller for around 100 hours and it's still fine
i didn't think switch controllers were that prone to drifting. i later played on my friend's switch and the left joycon was drifting, so i swapped it for one of his spares, which was also drifting. he then offered me his pro controller as a replacement.. which also had a drifting left stick, likely caused by a blockage/stuckage internally rather than a more technical hardware issue. it's rough lol, maybe i'll buy a switch whenever they solve the joycon problems.
Finally! Someone who talks about the pro controllers! I have three of them and two of them have some really bad drift! To be fair, it happened after our two left joycons, but my brothers and I have no idea what to do, or how to fix them
@@maddyp.5602 Well, I had mine fixed by Nintendo, but they charged about $40 to do it. That being said, it works fine now, and they do have a one-year warranty, so if your Pro controllers are less than a year old, they'll repair them for free.
This actually makes me think that the Joy-Cons weren't play tested at all. Its been a problem since day 1 and they haven't addresed it properly, which pisses me off. I bought a pair of Splatoon Joy-Con's and they worked fine for about a year, then my pink one began to drift and its still drifting. It'a a big problem and I'm tempted to just buy a pro controller.
@@donkeykongisytpooping3002 Every analog stick will eventually drift. It's a flaw in the basic design. I don't understand why Sony, Microsoft and/or Nintendo doesn't work with the companies who make analog units to improve the design.
@@fattiger6957 Nintendo’s design for the pro controller is flawed and the stick grinds against the plastic, it’s a flaw exclusive to the pro controller itself. Also I agree that companies should work on improving the design, they’ve used the same one for awhile now.
not really but if you do look it up more they cant really revise joycons as they currently are cause the types of stick joycons use are the only kind that fit so really te blame is on the graphite for being the shittyest type of electrical conducting material that cant take any abuse at all but yeah graphites footprint is so small its the reason joycons can be that size in the firstplace
@@noyukikun Nintendo could work with their suppliers to design a better analog unit to fit the Switch's specs. It's not an impossible scenario. Of course, that would cost money and Nintendo might have to accept a little less profit margin on joycons. And we all know how cheap Nintendo can be and how they love to pass costs onto the consumer (not including a AC adapter with the New 3ds XL)
Joycon drift is literally the only thing stopping me from getting a switch. The fact that I have to legitimately worry about $400 hardware breaking within my first year of owning it is completely unacceptable.
There are solutions, like buying a cheap 3rd party joycon or playing with a pro controller while docked. But, you're right. It is unacceptable that consumers have to find solutions to a problem Nintendo is actively ignoring (and actually profiting off of by selling replacement joycons)
The problem is massively overblown. The vast majority of people don’t have the issue, only people who have the issue bother complaining and talking about it. Most people don’t even know such a problem exists, they aren’t likely to go to social media out of nowhere just to say “My joycon still works!” Just don’t eat while you use your switch and keep them clean and you’ll be good to go. There does seem to be a tiny fraction that have the issue even when taken care of, but those people all say it happens within a week or two, so if that happens to you just return it back to the store for a full refund and get another set.
@@joemamr710 The problems very legitimate I’ve had a switch for 4 years and I’ve gone through 6 different sets of Joy Cons. Joy Cons have a small surface area that wears down quickly and overall they just aren’t that durable.
Me too. Honestly if youre a docked player, drift shouldnt matter much since you can get the pro controller which is more ergonomic. But i grew up with gameboy and ds and the drift affects me more. I still want to get one soon since I missed the 3ds and wii eras, so i guess I'll have to buy off brand joy cons
I'm so glad a larger RUclipsrs are finally beginning to make some noise about this issue. I hope Nintendo gets forced to actually do something about it.
There is a reason why this large youtuber couldn’t demonstrate the drift in person, despite heavily using a switch for 5 years…. And that is because the issue is overblown, and it’s actually several unrelated issues being combined. I think the biggest factor is playing with dirty hands or eating chips while playing. I don’t know anyone in real life who has drift issues, and I think the biggest factor is whether you take care of it or not, or maybe some people have corrosion on their switch connection pin or something. I’ve noticed a lot of people with hacked switches seem to complain about it, and I know that part of the way to hack the switch is to jam a paper clip into the joycon connection point on the switch itself.
After seeing Nintendo's lackluster responses I feel like they would still be willing to say "We're sorry consumers have problems with the Joy-Cons but we're working on a solution" even if it was 100 years after the Switch released, when all civilization is destroyed
nope nintendo is a good company that keeps promises and never makes big mistakes they will fix the drift issue when they release the switch pro. you probably dont know or are to young to know how game development works.
There are already solutions lol buy a switch game cube, snes, nes , various pro controllers and 3rd party. At this point staying with the joy cons is your fault lol
They’ve been offering free repairs for joycon drift for a while now. Anyone still complaining either hasn’t tried requesting a repair, or is too lazy to send it in.
You missed that when Switch launched Nintendo refused to repair or change Switches with dead pixels in the screen as it was "a normal characteristic of the display". These jesters have no right to be respected anymore in the hardware space. Between the drift, the NSO and the shitty third-party repairs, the Switch is a mess.
@@theletsplayer4921 they're doing this because they hate strangers and they go out of their way to piss off gaijins while making them still come back for more it's stockolm syndrome but with a video game company
@@DigitalGamma That is very simple arithmetic. Just take the zero from the 10 and slap it on the end of the 7500, bam!, you got the answer. I remember learning that little trick when I was 6-7 years old
"keep the Switch and Joy-Cons away from wireless devices" *looks at shelves full of WiFi devices* suuuure. Like that's an option now. Should I tell my neighbors to turn their stuff off too?
@@NitroIndigo My original DS is still is basically perfect working order despite continuing to use it occasionally, and getting one from the first shipment when it came out.
Actually, the literal CEO of Nintendo publicly acknowledged the existence of the issue. But of course, you ignore that and instead choose to believe some dubious Reddit post.
@@thesemothafukrsneverseenth9725 Oh yeah, they "acknowledge" it. Just like the government also "acknowledges" the issue of homelessness in America. Acknowledging something and actually putting real effort into solving the problem are two different entities.
@@geistgrace6452 But in your original comment insinuated that they didn’t acknowledge it making the joke that they said it doesn’t exist, when in fact they did acknowledge it. No one was talking about whether they did anything about it or not. Also using homelessness was just a straw man considering that wasn’t even on topic to what the dude before you said.
Bruh it's the equivalent if they akcnoledge the existence of drfit but do absolutely nothing to fix the problem. I love Nintendo but we just have to accept that the whole drift issue is just them being lazy.
Nintendo is getting very cocky after releasing a glorified tablet. And a little bit of research from the mod scene would have shown the RRoD cause (that the towel method attempted to fix, somewhat): the BGA was lead-free solder which doesn't take heating/cooling cycles well. The GPU didn't overheat, but the connections were weaker vs. traditional solder. For such an old and well-documented issue, please do better research.
That seems like an issue with the plastic release trigger on the back of the controller's rail. It's a simple job to swap out with a new one and you can buy metal replacements if you want.
"Only 1% of the population has the drift" *looks at my 3 left Joy-Cons, 2 of which are drifting heavily* Great video btw. It gave a lot of information about Nintendo's responses that I hadn't seen anywhere else.
I genuinely don't know a single switch owner that doesn't have it. I don't think it's just something that happens to a small amount of people, I think it's just something that happens to every joycon with enough use.
I also think that they're looking at data where people are actually seeking repairs and extrapolating their percentages from there, meanwhile, most people just say screw it and get new controllers because it's such a pain in the ass to send them in for repairs.
As far as I've seen, my brother and sister-in-law haven't had any drift since they got theirs in early 2020, so I'm waiting for the day they experience it
I don't use my joy cons nor do I want to lol other than Turing on my switch it's very easy to never use the joy cons plus your really limiting yourself using them with the joy sticks being so small
I am a simple man. I get home, I eat a whole pizza and I play games. I started my favorite game from my favorite franchise a mere few days ago. Monster Hunter Rise. And now...when I carve or move, I stare at the floor. My heart is broken.
As a fellow MH fan, I really, really recommend cleaning the interior of your joysticks with isopropyl alcohol, as it solved all my Joycon drift issues. Get it into the interior of the sticks with a cotton swab, leave to dry for a few minutes, and keep repeating that process intermittently as you use the joycons more. It's helped solve my drifting issues and everyone deserves to play Rise without having to deal with that BS.
@@thesemothafukrsneverseenth9725 Most doesn't mean all now does it? No, it means that only a small handful of people are actually getting their stuff fixed while others continue to have issues. If the company is aware that there is an issue which they themselves admit to saying if you actually watched the video instead of skipping straight to the ending then yes we can blame them for supplying us the consumers with faulty hardware.
@@varoennauraa in some cases it's free while sadly as it was stated either buy a repair kit or buy a new set of controllers. Personally if the issue is this bad then Nintendo really needs to step it up seeing how Microsoft seems to be the better gaming company as of late.
@@thesemothafukrsneverseenth9725 Taking care of your stuff? Nintendo decided to be cheap and use graphite pads for tracking the joystick movements on the joycons. It's a technology that wears down with use. There is no way to avoid it as sooner or later they all end up doing that. They can't fix it either because the entire design of the controllers was made for the graphite pad technology.
It's due to one of the metal clips on the back of the analog stick housing coming loose, just slap a piece of construction paper in there to maintain pressure and no more drift. Another way to fix this is to just avoid buying nintendo's trash and to go with a third party for the joycons which shockingly never seem to have an issue even after a year of heavy use.
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Has Joy-Con drift impacted you?
Not yet.
Don't even want to use the handheld mode because of it. Pro controllers FTW
Yes
@Maximillianmus Stan Nintendo doesn't exist
Had to buy a 4 dollar replacement stick, horrible suff really
Joy-Con drift is the single most infuriating thing about the Switch and the fact that they keep pushing it under the rug is so fucking aggravating
Of course there gonna do that it helps them make more sales on pro controllers
@@dyldog8837 pro controllers drift too LMAO
@@RaghavPrakash so do ps4/5 and xbox ones.
Agreed. I like the Switch but drift is just too annoying to deal with and I'm getting impatient waiting for revised Joy-Cons.
I'm on my 3rd set...very frustrating!
The whole “we haven’t received many reports so that means it doesn’t exist” is so frustrating to me. I didn’t call up Mr. Sony to let him know I had a yellow light of death so he could add it to the stat books. A lot of people have drifting joycons and aren’t reporting it.
Yeah I certainly don't have a hotline to nintendo, and I wouldn't know who to tell that my original joycons AND the ones I bought to replace them have drift.
Then report it or clean it, Karen.
That's... what their lawyers said. Lawyers aren't the PR department.
@@LargeBigs
Why didn't you send them in for repair?
@@fluffynator6222 didn't really want to send them off somewhere and be without controllers. They shouldn't break so quickly in the first place, nothing else matters.
After 5 joycons im convinced every single joycon will 100% eventually drift. Its only a matter of time.
My joy cons have been drifting forever but both my friends joy cons works fine. Its only a matter of time.
i’m so sad bc i’ve waited a year of left joystick drifting and right trigger being broken to buy a new set for new pokemon snap & fml but thanks for confirming
I have 3 sets of joy cons that I have used about 1 year apart from each other. Here are my experiences
1. The first sets only lasted around a year before drifting. I ignored it until the flap of the joy cons rubber control stick came off and I was left with this plastic skeleton of a joy stick. Even To this day, I have never used them since two years ago
2. These joy cons drifted after five days and gradually got worse. One time I used rubbing alcohol but it only worked for a month until drifting again. These were the only pair I asked to get fixed/replaced and after 3 months I got them back without anything being fixed. Bullshit
3. Finally the set I have now I’d drifting as I am typing this. I was playing miitopia and I acidentally used my sprinkles on a different character than intended because of drift.
Bonus: the pro controller is the only one I have that has not experienced any problems. But I’ve only had it for a year so it might just be a matter of time
Same. 2 pairs of joycons and 2 pro controllers. All of them eventually started drifting within *months*
5 Joycons... That's the price of a Switch and a game...
7,500 reviews.
1/10 users leave reviews
"750,000 kits sold"
That's some good math right there folks
I don't get it, if one in ten users left reviews, the math would be "multiply the number of reviews by ten" right?
@@mattwo7 Yeah, it should be 75,000
As much as I love RUclips, let’s face it, youtubers are not the brightest of people
@@aoterou Quite a generalization if I do say so myself.
@@the_Dragg Ah a whole digit column off.
Ironically, Joy Con Drift would realistically be the name of some kind of racing game developed by Nintendo
Now I want someone to mod Joy Cons into a Mario Kart game
Yeah, a motion controlled racing game
DEJA VU
Imagine if they released it before the term was there. Would it still sale?
Um, My family has a PS5 why does literally no One talk about dualshock drift?
Even just hearing the phrase “Joycon Drift” awakens a deep and primal rage within me
Joy -con- drifting away TM
Like Groudon
I fixed mine thru on screen calibration. You have to do what it says to move the joycons just right. Then it fixes each set. I did this 2 years ago and still working! If I ever get around to it I'll do this to my wired controllers too!
Same
@@kylehill3643 for the type of drift I have in mine and other people I've talked to, calibration doesnt work. Calibration basically resets the neutral point, but the drift is sporadic and varies in intensity
If you or a loved one was diagnosed Joy Con drift, you may be entitled to financial compensation.
Lmaooooo
I got that vibe too😂
iFixit now offers a kit or thumb-stick and tutorial on how to replace
@@kvleggo The thing is, for me it seems to be a software problem. I've bought over 10 different pro controllers and joy cons, and every one of them but one set of china fake controllers, of that i even got 50% off because a review, they absolutely deserved, developed joy-con drift after pretty much exactly 2 months of low usage.
@@fleisch4809 once it started happening with my pro controller it just severely limits what i can play. Not every game has sensitivity options like that, but some like AC or BotW, p much unplayable when you are constantly creepin forward
Guess it wasn't in my imagination after all
The human mind is incredible
Happened to me multiple times, thankfully i got a pro controller and dont gotta worry about drift till the end of time
When I was a kid, I also used to think they were cool
Life is a simulation
“Crazy to think it was all in my imagination 🙂”
the fact this is still an issue in 2021 boggles the mind.
sadly I think this issue will continue throughout the entire Switch lifespan.
@@Dash120z makes me feel like an idiot for buying one.
Switch's biggest flaw besides its underpowered hardware.
Not really, hobbyist engineer here, seeing as that's an issue with all compact, non-slider, style joysticks. For example the Vita also had/has big issues with "joycon drift". It's due to never being able to 100% close off a moving part to any dust. The reason why consoles like the PS4, 360, Gamecube, etc. don't suffer from it is that they big open design where dust can easily enter but also easily leave and on top of that much less susceptible to dust.
Or in simple terms, because they are tiny joysticks, slider joysticks are unpopular and using normal joystick mechanisms would make every joycon housing fat (read 2 to 3 cm thick, or for americans roughly an inch) not counting the joystick that actually sticks out of the joycon.
@@relo999 explain why the ds or wii u didn't have issues?
meanwhile decade old 3ds circle pad still works just fine.
what the hell the 3ds is a decade old now? 😨
@@npenplz yep, came out in 2011
"feel old yet?"
- Sun Tzu, Art of War
I was just thinking that! Like guys you solved this, and it didnt stick out and risk breaking
Bruhhh my 3ds one literally still works. You know i remember the old wii nunchuk analog sticks having drift too. I would be playing skylanders or disney infinity and my characters kept walking even after i set it down. Id have to unplug and re plug it in. They should've stuck with the 3ds version. 🤣
It’s kinda sad how Nintendo needs the threat of being sued to acknowledge and repair joycon drift.
And to reporters and costumers, they still deny it and pretend it’s not real.
Only when investors grill them, they apologise (and do nothing regardless).
@@flyingplantwhale545 I think they wanted to fix the joy con drift but it cost a lot of money to make repairs and plus with COVID-19 it gets even harder.
@@Blue-Apple-fc9eo “We wanted to fix it but it was too expensive. So we’ll just let you keep paying for it instead”
Oh good guy Nintendo.
they knew this was a major design flaw and simply didn't care. plus the switch lite is even more susceptible to drift. in fact only 20 hours totals of play cause drift in the switch lite.
@@GladDestronger i bet that they know it’s a massive problem but don’t even care since people will buy replacements anyways for $80
It's legitimately fascinating how Nintendo hardware has been so famous for it's durability (even Lego Mario went through tons of floor-drops), yet the Switch, Nintendo's comeback to more "serious" gaming consoles, has one of the most glaring hardware issues I've ever seen in a console.
It was rushed out the door 3-6 months too early, and sold so well that they decided the profits were too high to be worth doing something even remotely good for consumers.
@@harrylane4 I second this, Nintendo was too eager to move on from the Wii U and this is costing them and their fans.
remember Nintendo's "Seal of Quality"? yea I miss that too..
probably because Iwata died and the new people running the company are worse
@@dappitydingdong1219
Iwata invented the Switch.
You bet once a Mario Kart 9 gets announced for Switch all the comments are going to joke about drifting
Nintendo:Disables comments
Almost every video Nintendo puts out has at least one drifting joke with a lot of likes.
I doubt there will be a 9 for awhile as long as the mobile game is profitable
@@mavrickindigo has nothing to do with the mobile game. Mobile game doesn't affect switch games. 8 Deluxe still sells well to this day, so there won't be a 9 for a good long while
Yeah
Playing Dark Souls with Joycon drift is the Dark Souls of Dark Souls runs.
The rafters with the painting guardians was one helluva time with drift 😂
@@Mick-hp4yg Oh, gods. I can't even imagine...
Oh good heavens 😂😂😂
My first time playing dark souls was in handheld mode with plenty of random drift. It was a little rough.
Tell that to the guy who beat dark souls on a rock band drum set
When a controller costs $80, you'd expect it to last as long as the console.
Surprisingly first reply
80 bucks for a controller that doesn't last 2 seconds before it goes all over the place, i'd love it if companies stopped being greedy and just made a durable product for once these days
@@Crosstariale facts
@@Crosstariale that used to be the industry standard now it has faded away with the past.
@SmallyGaming I'm also in Canada, and that $100 price tag is insane, the pro controller is also pretty pricy at $90
I sent in my joycon for drift repair once. They sent it back and I'm not even sure they did anything to it at all. It was literally drifting again day one.
They took a look at it and went "yeah it's drifting" then sent it back
@@samwoodley1653 seems like it
I sent two joycons in for repair. IDK if they fixed the right one or not but they lost my left one and sent me a brand new one for free.
The brand new left one immediately had connectivity issues.
Same thing happened to me! I sent one in to get fixed and it started drifting again less than 2 weeks after I got it back. I had to sent it in a second time and thankfully it’s been fine since then
yupppp same here
Wow...companies really hate apologizing for their mistakes.
Meanwhile at Minecraft: "The players want phantoms gone because they are annoying!" "That's the point!"
@@Dukfire unironically... Minecraft players agreed to add phantoms to minecraft
Just like politicians! *laugh track plays*
Microsoft at least offered apologies for the RROD and acknowledged its existence, as bad as it was. The drift issue is frustrating because Nintendo's become arrogant and entitled again and doesn't give a damn.
Because people would make fun of them for it
You have no idea how many times link would just walk his ass off a ledge on me
Endlessly-Spinning camera in Mario Sunshine, here.
@@celestialstar6450 Stop referring to a youtube vid
Toad runs off the lift in 3d world because of the drift
One time Link walked into the range of a guardian lazer cus of drift and I got killed, and you have no idea how many times I got so close to walking off a cliff
Or you go to jump on a platform playing smash bros and magically fall off screen lol
I’m getting sick of watching my character run upwards on it’s own. It’s so bad that I can’t even guide my character down anymore
get a third party controller
@@worldofcyn you're right but it's so sad it has to be that way...
Try playing monster hunter while fighting your controls, the camera, and the monster. It adds a layer of challenge found nowhere else.
Nintendo fixed mine for free
@@zacastica yeah man.
"Ensure your Nintendo Switch is not [...] near an aquarium."
I don't know why but that made me bust out laughing.
this has the same vibe as those Wii warning memes where it's like "don't pour juice onto your wii" and that kind of shit
As silly as it may seem... My parents have an aquarium right next to the TV stand. Guess where the wii u sits?
Next to the aquarium.
Their advice may seem silly, but silly people exist, and many people who are even considerably not silly may still do said silly thing because they don't realize why its silly.
It's not because the water might get on the console. That's a no brainer. It's because water can cause a lot of issues for wireless signals. It's why our bodies are such an issue for instance.
Oddly enough though, it can also help wireless signals if you get lucky in how they bounce off the water, etc. It's weird. So best practice is to just keep the consoles away from big bodies of water in general. Whether they be in a glass cage, or a meat one.
Nintendo: "We'd like to help, but we are getting sued for not helping, so we can't help, sowwwy".
Blame US law for that
Nintendo switch control sticks are very short, compared to other consoles, very fragile to play with, I use my delicate Chinese hands and I’m still paranoid these sissy Nintendo joy cons will disintegrate like that Daffy Marvin classic on Planet X, bzzzzzzzzzzz
So fricking do something!
Nintendo make themselves look like retards. So stupid someone with half of a brain could fix this issue...
@@gavinphoenixballesteros3080 side note , Nintendo have proved with wii nunchuck control stick and GameCube control they can make controls without drift issues
@@Garrysullivanjones They really drop the ball with the care they had with the Joy-Con Controllers
The amount of time I’ve been playing BOTW and Link decided to waltz off in a random ass direction. Holy shit
I noticed that recently when I was playing that game recently. I thought something was wrong with it my controller and I carefully looked it over but didn't noticed physically wrong with it. It got worse over time that aiming in BOTW is difficult.
I have a question I just bought my switch two weeks ago when will it start drifting?
@@loveisuseless2921 I’m not sure. I’m sorry I can’t really answer your question. I got my switch when it first came out and sometime along the way it did this. It isn’t too bad though. I’m sure you’ll be fine even if it did. Look up your question and try to find an answer if it’s really bothering you. Hope you enjoy your switch :)
Yeah it can pretty much spoil your game totally particularly if you are playing a platformer such as crash bandicoot where staying in one place is vital to making it through the game, not so noticeable when playing rocket league as all it seems to affect is the menu moving down by itself or doing extra flips while jumping in a match. Nintendo really need to sort drift issues out it’s not good enough for a company selling to millions of customers
@@loveisuseless2921 did it drift?
Guys we need to get this video outside of RUclips PLEASE! This problem has been going on for so long and Nintendo has done NOTHING to solve it. Please repost this video as much as you can. So please repost this video anywhere that Nintendo can see it.
Remember, every time you buy replacement joycons you give Nintendo a reason to ignore this issue
Also when you buy a pro controller to “fix” the issue you’re rewarding Nintendo with money therefore they see it as a good thing
assuming the best case scenario for Nintendo and joycons only have a 5% fail rate, and assuming everyone who got it only had to repair it ONCE, here is how much money Nintendo has made from this.
# of switches sold (rounded down) = 60 million
Fail rate = 5% (REALLY rounded down)
60,000,000 * 0.05 = 3,000,000
Total faulty joycon pairs = 3 million
Price of joycons = $70
70 * 3,000,000 = 210,000,000 or $210 Million Dollars
At absolute lowest this scheme has made Nintendo 210 Million dollars
We live in a society
I personally had to get new joycons FOUR TIMES
That's why i bought cheap third party controllers. What is funny about it is that they have lasted over a year without drift while the official joy cons started failing almost immediatly.
I just got replacement sticks for 5 bucks a piece from a Chinese online store. Still rocking my OG joycons. Not giving Nintendo a cent.
@@flyingplantwhale545 any drift issues with those since?
I am just imagining "Oh my god, my house just got blown up... well at least my Gameboy works, win some you lose some i guess".
Small price to pay for gaming
Don't forget to pick up that controller warranty. It's not just a line Gamestop employees feed you, these stupid things are expensive.
Mfw:
Buys the $40 extra insurance from walmart
Joycon drifts
Nintendo doesnt acknowledge it
Calls walmart for the insurance
"Its still under manufacturers warranty, gotta use them first"
Sold my switch
@@nicememes7570 drreadddd bro
huh
ruclips.net/video/Vid8lIXmZwE/видео.html
Shit I should’ve gotten it :(
Joycon drift is Nintendo's red ring of death
I'm pretty sure it doesn't kill the consle
@@subifyouhatetiktokandreddit234 if you have a switch lite yeah
I never got the red ring of death for my 360's but my left joycon has been drifting for 2 years even after repairs and my right one just started drifting as well, im getting a pro controller.
At least Microsoft actually fixed it shortly after the Xbox 360 launch date. You can tell Nintendo just doesn’t give a shit about its fans.
The great drift of death.
My favorite Fast and Furious movie.
Well, Nintendo has always been very family friendly...
Some would argue that the monsters are your opponent in Monster Hunter Rise but I'd say the drift is your real enemy.
Topical.
All because you can't get a bit of rubbing alcohol and a qtip? How is that Nintendo's fault?
@@lizardguyNA Doesn't help the drift seeing it's a faulty controller. I honestly tried it for anything cheap alternative since joy-cons are so expensive. It went right back into it.
@@lizardguyNA I've tried that before and it fixed the left one just a little but the right one still has it pretty bad. Unless Nintendo meant for the joycons to drift, then it is not working as intended, which would be Nintendo's fault. You shouldn't have to go through this trouble to get a perfectly fine joycon working properly in the first place.
@@MysticalTemptress
But Sony is okay on that front? Also, try better, and try not smearing your own feces on the Controller because I really can't see how your lack of care of a product is the fault of anyone else.
I literally just mailed my joycons to Nintendo today to fix their drifting and this shows up in my subscriptions.
Satoru Iwata would have handled this situation very differently.
But unfortunately he's dead. Furakawa has run the companies reputation into the ground.
iFixit now offers a kit or thumb-stick and tutorial on how to replace
Would he thought? He'd probably just say "Please understand" and ignore it as best as possible like Furakawa has.
@@calebb7012 Umm no, 85 mil units sold = "run the company into the ground" 😂
Iwata was in charge when nintendo didnt let people upload RUclips videos about nintendo, or when they made the wii u. Nintendo doing shitty or stupid things isn't new
I like how you used glass joe music when you talked about france
I was hoping someone would notice!
@@TheCartoonGamer8000 well I did
Just let him win...the ultimate challenge...
I remember getting my mom to play splatoon, because I wanted her to see how fun it was, and she got freaked out by the fact her inkling was moving by herself lol
meanwhile my 9 year vita who faced high humidity is still intact
Hehe true, I have the revised model and sticks are still good
My 10 year old nearly 11 year old Wii is working great
@@165hy9 yes because it doesnt have analog sticks. Most games didnt even require the nunchucks, and even then, those sticks were made much differently than a standard joy con stick.
I have a DS I that's about 12 years old, the battery is cover looks like it's about to explode and the volume buttons only work when the DS feels like it, but by God does it work... with only one cartridge. Thankfully it's a 200 in 1 cartridge
@@lick816 1, replace that battery, as it could leak and damage the internals. 2, open it up and clean everything. It will work much better.
I taught myself how to repair and reshell joycons and now whenever my friends and classmates get drift, I repair it for them for a small fee. Of course, I only ever get left joycons lol.
Same, i just got a bunch of my dad's screwdrivers and bought some joysticks off of amazon, I also learned how to replace the weak pieces of plastic that hold the joy cons into the switch.
@@theflatsixth that’s good but shouldn’t have to do that if Nintendo made better controllers
@@therunawaykid6523 I agree that it shouldn't be necessary
I once thought that my pro controller had drift by it turned out that I just had motion controls on when playing Mario kart.
"I'm using tilt controls!"
OWAHH XD
Whew, that must have been a relief, then!
I suspect after the passing of Satoru Iwata that quality assurance was bypassed some. I mean, I have every single Nintendo console and every single controller from every system still works >
Yeah I kind of agree it seems it’s like quantity over quality, just try and get as many switches in peoples homes but not worrying about the quality of the controllers
I remember when I started noticing Link moving on his own. My brother didn't believe me and thought I had broken his joy cons
This is exactly what happened to me
Since Nintendo representatives stated that the Switch saved their console business, its so very very sad that it feels so cheaply made to be sold and milked for high profit knowing fully well that it breaks so easily.
I love the Switch and its concept. But Nintendo is seriously acting like Apple here.
It sucks what the Wii U did to Nintendo. Now they are playing their cards insanely carefully to the point where we don’t even have nearly the same experience as Wii U players did. There’s no themes on the switch, mii’s are scarce, and it seems like most games they are releasing that aren’t Zelda and Mario are just ports. Really sucks that one bad console can cause a company to be so careful and cheap even when they finally hit their stride again.
It's like some kind of weird twilight zone that Nintendo has not fixed this yet. It's kind of crazy right?
They don't want to admit it is a problem by announcing a revised Joy-Con with a better stick, because then they'd lose the court case.
I'm willing to bet that their plan is to wait until the rumoured revision/successor is released. That way they can market the new design as simply being the next Joy-Con that are intended for the revision/successor, but are backwards compatible with the original model.
They can't really fix this because the joycons's entire design revolve around the use of cheap graphite pads for tracking movements. They can't fix it without a complete new controller design that use a different kind of joystick technology. Until then all they do is replace the cheap pads over and over that ultimately will all wear down sooner or later.
@@chamoo232 basicly this playstation used it in the ps5 controllers which is why your hearing those are failing too
for the joycons its mostly cause there so small they cant use anything better then graphite for there thumbstick
I think they can't fix it and it's all controllers they would have to compensate nearly anyone who's bought a switch
It's because Iwata's gone. That guy had much higher standards for their products than the new guy.
I can't believe the Ultimate Fighting Championship in france sued them
Imagine you're playing smash and you're at grand finals and then you randomly walk off the stage because of drift (This is why people use Gamecube controllers, I have one that has the joystick half torn off and it works better than my joy-cons lol).
@@Dukfire - The gamecube controller might be the toughest controller Nintendo has ever made...
The Wiimote with the rubber shell its a good contender tho, but you gotta take care of that nunchuck.
@@julianx2rl I've seen GameCube controllers go through walls. And the only time I've ever seen one break was a guy throwing it at full strength against a concrete floor. Still only split open a tiny bit.
@@Dukfire most professional Smash players use their own Gamecube controllers for a rare hardware issue with the face buttons that makes input a lot faster. Controllers with this condition are rare and expensive.
But they are still great nontheless
I gave up and basically drowned my joycons in WD-40 so I'm fine now
wouldn't that damage the other electronics inside the Joy-Cons?
@@CoolBird420 only if you like let it leak in to the chips n crap but if you drown the mechanisms of the thumbstick your good
you didnt use normal wd-40, did u? You’re supposed to use WD-40 Contact Cleaner! and it only needs to go under the joystick
@@guybrush3000 I don't remember it was slightly smaller than a normal can though
I just used Flex Tape.
There's absolutely no way to play animal crossing without joycon drift being a nuisance.
Handheld, tabletop or docked?
@@Blapedred either way if you use the joycons my brotha.
@@Rat_King_Covenant get a pro controller trust me it’s waaaay better for tabletop and docked
@@Rat_King_Covenant even handheld with a controller mount
@@Blapedred Yeah, I got two. I just kinda miss playing AC on the go LoL
So glad my joycons aren’t drifting yet
Edit: Nevermind.
Give it a week
I fixed the drift.
never seen karma hit this hard
That sucks. This is why you don’t Jinx these things. Especially when that is an expensive replacement.
Same
Drift is the reason I dont want to get special edition joycons.
Same, which is sad cus I really want those Skyward sword joycons
@@tacocats2244 fuck the warranty, just replace the actual joysticks in the joycon
are there 3rd party joycons that dont drift?
@@TheGeckoNinja yep these are more durable than og ones , also some third party controllers are much better than the pro controller or the joycons the only thing missing could be the nfc and sometimes rumble(depending on the brand or model) but nfc is not vital and the gyroscope and hd rumble work fine
drift is the reason you shouldn't buy special edition joycons
My Joy-Con is drifting so much, it's like playing Need for Speed.
Why not try NFS: Joycon Drifting?
Mine doesn’t my switch just fully gave up so I had to factory reset it luckily Nintendo online backedup my saves
Gotta love how I can play a game cube on fire for 5 minutes before it dies, yet if I look at the joy- cons the wrong way this happens...
My left Joy-Con started drifting two months after purchase.
It make sense that your left one did that before the right one. It's a wear problem. It uses a graphite pad to detect movement and the left one is the most used. Once the graphite wears down you get deadzones and drift. It's inevitable.
@@chamoo232 oh ok that makes sense, my left joycon is also the first one that started drifting, the other 3 of my joycons soon followed after
nintendo: "you're imagining things, musta been the wind"
Reggie over at the game awards: "Glad I don't work for that stupid company!"
Damn you, wind!
iFixit now offers a kit or thumb-stick and tutorial on how to replace
@@cliffturbo2146 howard moon:''wind,my only friend. wind:''I hate you.....'' howard:''shut up,wind!'' [the mighty boosh]
Glad this isn't forgotten
It’s never ogre
Meanwhile, in my attic:
Wii U: 🎵 *I'm still standing* 🎵
YEAH YEAH YEAH
@@hopelessamaturerougeofhope4399 Nice pfp
@@xXTobias_Erin_RogersXx thanks
@@hopelessamaturerougeofhope4399 No problem.
Nintendo: There is no drift in the Joy Cons
There are no joycons in the drift
They never said that. Nintendo’s own CEO publicly acknowledged the issue. This whole notion that Nintendo denied the existence of the issue came from a random Reddit post that gullible saps like you instantly believed.
@@ClaireZhasa there is no switch
There is no joy in the drift cons
There is no war in Ba Sing Se.
In the last 20 years of gaming, I only had two controllers fail on me: my left and right joycons.
I suspect you dont use a lot of gamepads
Me too, except it's with all 4 of my joycons
@Noah Pascua Left joycon is more susceptible but both get it
Joycons still work fine since 2019. 2 DualShock 4s have drifted since. I truly do not understand cause it’s obviously a case by case thing, but nintendo gets all the hate
A little bit of isopropyl has saved every controller I've ever had since '96, including my JoyCons, thankfully.
All I want is a Joy Con+ or some upgraded version. I'd pay full price. How can my wii nunchucks function flawlessly after almost 15 years of abuse but the joycons can't last a year?
Is that a serious question ? The joy cons don't even have real joy sticks compared to the wii u game pad
Wii nunchucks do have drift and connectivity problems, but I mean that's a $3 attachment and it works better then joy-cons
@@Dukfire Had connectivity issues but all it took was a pull it out plug it back in. Has not drifted after 14 years.
@@mrtree1368 you day that like that justifies the $70 asking price and connectivity issues
Ever opened one? Poorest quality of components I have ever seen. Plastics flimsy. It's a miracle it works at all.
I had 6 joycons and all of them drift. I'm gonna just have to figure out a way to replace every joystick it's gotten so bad. They should fix it before making a switch pro or anything else. It's making me hate the switch and go back to the 3ds and Wii
Terraforming in Animal Crossing with joycon drift is the closest experience to death
Try dark souls remastered with camera and control drift. It's fun.
furry 🤢
@@zerobasedgod9291 playing a game with animals he a furry alright *sarcasm*
I’ve experienced this and it went so badly. What’s worst is that my island got accidentally wiped out so i went through joycon drift hell in ACNH for nothing 🥲
@@zerobasedgod9291 not furry
This is a huge reason why I haven’t touched my Switch in half a year. It’s just frustrating playing anything with the drift
Joy-Con Drift: Imagination at its limits
It’s funny because I JUST got my joycons back from being repaired. They did it quickly and for free, at least.I didn’t know they were charging people before, dang.
Are they still working because I've sent the same pair in 3 times?
@@joshsfox6266 sent the left one to them in the middle of 2019 and it started to work fine, couple months later the right one started acting funny too. I guess what they do works since the left one hasnt been acting funny since
@@shmok3y they just replace it with another joy con as special joy cons sometimes don't come out as the same joy con when shipped back
It’s not a permanent fix but I’ve found it helps for awhile: get some rubbing alcohol and a q-tip and put some under the control sticks
I did that with my original joycons a few years back. It worked.... for about 10 minutes when the joycon started drifting again
using alcohol or contact cleaner solves the issue....temporarily, i almost went through a whole can of contact cleaner just cleaning the joycon sticks, until Nintendo started the free fix program, but even still they wouldn't take in a pair of joycons i had already opened trying to fix the drift, so i had to buy some stick replacements from Aliexpress
Yup, I recently surveyed 11,500 Switch owners - over 65% said they had experienced drift, a 20% increase over last year. It's not going away, and the lack of a satisfactory response from Nintendo is damaging.
Drift affects Joy-con AND Pro controllers. My Pro controller got drift before any of my 4 Joy-cons did, and Nintendo repairs Joy-cons for free in the US and Canada but charge for Pro controller repair outside the warranty.
I think that's a little more normal other system pro controllers drift .with that said I've used my pro controller for around 100 hours and it's still fine
My Pro Controller's right stick sometimes drifts directly downwards
i didn't think switch controllers were that prone to drifting. i later played on my friend's switch and the left joycon was drifting, so i swapped it for one of his spares, which was also drifting. he then offered me his pro controller as a replacement.. which also had a drifting left stick, likely caused by a blockage/stuckage internally rather than a more technical hardware issue. it's rough lol, maybe i'll buy a switch whenever they solve the joycon problems.
Finally! Someone who talks about the pro controllers! I have three of them and two of them have some really bad drift! To be fair, it happened after our two left joycons, but my brothers and I have no idea what to do, or how to fix them
@@maddyp.5602 Well, I had mine fixed by Nintendo, but they charged about $40 to do it. That being said, it works fine now, and they do have a one-year warranty, so if your Pro controllers are less than a year old, they'll repair them for free.
This actually makes me think that the Joy-Cons weren't play tested at all. Its been a problem since day 1 and they haven't addresed it properly, which pisses me off. I bought a pair of Splatoon Joy-Con's and they worked fine for about a year, then my pink one began to drift and its still drifting. It'a a big problem and I'm tempted to just buy a pro controller.
I love these type of videos that go off the normal “video game facts” type model feels more like a well researched video essay
Joycon drift hasn't impacted me at all
**Cries in poorness**
Just buy a repair kit online.
Drifting hasn't affected me. But only because I almost always play docked and with a pro controller.
@@fattiger6957 The pro controller can still drift over time.
@@donkeykongisytpooping3002 Every analog stick will eventually drift. It's a flaw in the basic design. I don't understand why Sony, Microsoft and/or Nintendo doesn't work with the companies who make analog units to improve the design.
@@fattiger6957 Nintendo’s design for the pro controller is flawed and the stick grinds against the plastic, it’s a flaw exclusive to the pro controller itself. Also I agree that companies should work on improving the design, they’ve used the same one for awhile now.
Sounds like something that could have been resolved easily if they didn't brush it aside.
not really but if you do look it up more they cant really revise joycons as they currently are cause the types of stick joycons use are the only kind that fit so really te blame is on the graphite for being the shittyest type of electrical conducting material that cant take any abuse at all but yeah graphites footprint is so small its the reason joycons can be that size in the firstplace
@@noyukikun graphite
@@noyukikun I wouldn’t mind thicker joycons if it meant they could add a better joystick.
@@noyukikun Nintendo could work with their suppliers to design a better analog unit to fit the Switch's specs. It's not an impossible scenario. Of course, that would cost money and Nintendo might have to accept a little less profit margin on joycons. And we all know how cheap Nintendo can be and how they love to pass costs onto the consumer (not including a AC adapter with the New 3ds XL)
the pain of climbing a cliff in botw only to drift off of it
Bought new joy-cons and use gc controllers whenever possible, haven’t had trouble since but cmon this shouldn’t be a thing
I'm going to give this comment a month. I wonder how long it'll take for the joycons to drift lol
If they don't drift, congrats in advance!
@@willo90li aha had em for over 6 months, so far so good thankfully
@@DaProphecyKJ24 God speed you beautiful bastard, let's hope they don't drift.
@@willo90li many thanks 🙏🏾
Its only a matter of time
Things were just better with Iwata, I miss him so much.
Nintendo died with Iwata.
Iwata also had region locking. Nintendo hasn't been good for a far longer time.
@@dolphinboi-playmonsterranc9668 No era of Nintendo was perfect, but Iwata's era was definitely much better than the current era we're in now.
@Alf Maggadan Iwata era = GameCube, DS, and Wii. Also, the Switch is Iwata's final legacy. He was spearheading its development.
@Alf Maggadan wii: i don't exist huh?
Joycon drift is literally the only thing stopping me from getting a switch. The fact that I have to legitimately worry about $400 hardware breaking within my first year of owning it is completely unacceptable.
There are solutions, like buying a cheap 3rd party joycon or playing with a pro controller while docked. But, you're right. It is unacceptable that consumers have to find solutions to a problem Nintendo is actively ignoring (and actually profiting off of by selling replacement joycons)
The problem is massively overblown. The vast majority of people don’t have the issue, only people who have the issue bother complaining and talking about it.
Most people don’t even know such a problem exists, they aren’t likely to go to social media out of nowhere just to say “My joycon still works!”
Just don’t eat while you use your switch and keep them clean and you’ll be good to go. There does seem to be a tiny fraction that have the issue even when taken care of, but those people all say it happens within a week or two, so if that happens to you just return it back to the store for a full refund and get another set.
@@joemamr710 The problems very legitimate I’ve had a switch for 4 years and I’ve gone through 6 different sets of Joy Cons. Joy Cons have a small surface area that wears down quickly and overall they just aren’t that durable.
Me too. Honestly if youre a docked player, drift shouldnt matter much since you can get the pro controller which is more ergonomic. But i grew up with gameboy and ds and the drift affects me more. I still want to get one soon since I missed the 3ds and wii eras, so i guess I'll have to buy off brand joy cons
I'm so glad a larger RUclipsrs are finally beginning to make some noise about this issue. I hope Nintendo gets forced to actually do something about it.
There is a reason why this large youtuber couldn’t demonstrate the drift in person, despite heavily using a switch for 5 years….
And that is because the issue is overblown, and it’s actually several unrelated issues being combined. I think the biggest factor is playing with dirty hands or eating chips while playing.
I don’t know anyone in real life who has drift issues, and I think the biggest factor is whether you take care of it or not, or maybe some people have corrosion on their switch connection pin or something.
I’ve noticed a lot of people with hacked switches seem to complain about it, and I know that part of the way to hack the switch is to jam a paper clip into the joycon connection point on the switch itself.
And there are people who don't think it's an issue until it happens to them lol
That was me. I knew it was an issue, but I had no idea how bad it could get.
Me. I thought people were exaggerating until I got Smash...
@@joseph0098 Dude Joy-con drift is no big deal unless you're playing Minecraft or Smash in which life and death are critical.
@@Dukfire or how about literally every platforming game then as well
@@mr.snaplles5964 agreed
After seeing Nintendo's lackluster responses I feel like they would still be willing to say "We're sorry consumers have problems with the Joy-Cons but we're working on a solution" even if it was 100 years after the Switch released, when all civilization is destroyed
nope nintendo is a good company that keeps promises and never makes big mistakes they will fix the drift issue when they release the switch pro. you probably dont know or are to young to know how game development works.
“But we’re looking for a solution”
I don’t buy it
There are already solutions lol buy a switch game cube, snes, nes , various pro controllers and 3rd party. At this point staying with the joy cons is your fault lol
4 replies in and there are already 2 people defending Nintendo making overpriced faulty controllers.
Jesus christ...
They’ve been offering free repairs for joycon drift for a while now. Anyone still complaining either hasn’t tried requesting a repair, or is too lazy to send it in.
forget drifting joycons, the war gameboy is where it’s at
At this point, the only reason why JoyCon drift is still a problem is because Nintendo knows it makes them more money, and that breaks my heart.
You missed that when Switch launched Nintendo refused to repair or change Switches with dead pixels in the screen as it was "a normal characteristic of the display". These jesters have no right to be respected anymore in the hardware space. Between the drift, the NSO and the shitty third-party repairs, the Switch is a mess.
Dead pixels are normal. Bruh have you never owned anything with a screen before? There's a limit on what they will fix.
@@Starwars4J why they made a faulty product nintentard
@@theletsplayer4921 they're doing this because they hate strangers and they go out of their way to piss off gaijins while making them still come back for more
it's stockolm syndrome but with a video game company
I remember my ds got ran over and the only thing that happened was the bottom screen stopped working
You might want to check the math on that Amazon review figure again: 7,500 x 10 = 75,000, not 750,000
It's did you know GAMING. Not did you know MATH
@@DigitalGamma
That is very simple arithmetic. Just take the zero from the 10 and slap it on the end of the 7500, bam!, you got the answer. I remember learning that little trick when I was 6-7 years old
@@DigitalGamma That0s basic maths, everyone should know
@@rockinrootbeer1795 If they are wrong about something simple like this, what else are they wrong about?
@@DigitalGamma Doesn't change the fact that they failed to proof-check their video before release
"keep the Switch and Joy-Cons away from wireless devices"
*looks at shelves full of WiFi devices*
suuuure. Like that's an option now. Should I tell my neighbors to turn their stuff off too?
The hinge on the DS lite was not durable I went through 2 DS lites because the hinge broke.
The DSi family also has issues with faulty shoulder buttons.
My DS lite is beat to hell and fell down the stands at a stadium as a kid, but it's still functioning perfectly.
@@perpetualcollapse My DSi's Right shoulder button doesn't always work
I think they were talking about the original DS. My Lite's right hinge also broke, and my original 3DS' R button became stiff over time.
@@NitroIndigo My original DS is still is basically perfect working order despite continuing to use it occasionally, and getting one from the first shipment when it came out.
*Legit millions of complaints and special kits custom made for fixing the problem.*
Nintendo: "It's not a real issue, and it doesn't actually happen!"
Actually, the literal CEO of Nintendo publicly acknowledged the existence of the issue. But of course, you ignore that and instead choose to believe some dubious Reddit post.
@@thesemothafukrsneverseenth9725 Oh yeah, they "acknowledge" it. Just like the government also "acknowledges" the issue of homelessness in America.
Acknowledging something and actually putting real effort into solving the problem are two different entities.
@@geistgrace6452 But in your original comment insinuated that they didn’t acknowledge it making the joke that they said it doesn’t exist, when in fact they did acknowledge it. No one was talking about whether they did anything about it or not. Also using homelessness was just a straw man considering that wasn’t even on topic to what the dude before you said.
Bruh it's the equivalent if they akcnoledge the existence of drfit but do absolutely nothing to fix the problem. I love Nintendo but we just have to accept that the whole drift issue is just them being lazy.
Legit millions huh? Got any hard evidence of that nonsense?
Every time I see everyone complaining about Joy Con Drift, I can only sit there, not being able to relate, because I still haven't experienced it.
I experienced it, and I fixed it. Kinda fun ngl, joy cons are really easy to open and fix by yourself.
I've never had the money for a Switch, so... yeah. I really can't say anything.
@@corruptedteka did you get one?
@@g-fourgaming8657 I have !!! And I haven't gotten drift yet !
Nintendo is getting very cocky after releasing a glorified tablet. And a little bit of research from the mod scene would have shown the RRoD cause (that the towel method attempted to fix, somewhat): the BGA was lead-free solder which doesn't take heating/cooling cycles well. The GPU didn't overheat, but the connections were weaker vs. traditional solder. For such an old and well-documented issue, please do better research.
I don't have Joy Con drift but when I'm playing in handheld mode in bed or whatever the right Joy Con keeps popping out.
Yes
This has made handheld mode impossible for me. One of the console's biggest features and I can't even use it
@@spaceace9103 yeah
That seems like an issue with the plastic release trigger on the back of the controller's rail. It's a simple job to swap out with a new one and you can buy metal replacements if you want.
@@alfo2804 Thanks my dude appreciate the help
"Only 1% of the population has the drift"
*looks at my 3 left Joy-Cons, 2 of which are drifting heavily*
Great video btw. It gave a lot of information about Nintendo's responses that I hadn't seen anywhere else.
2 for me. Started buying 3rd party. They took a whole year of quarantine Animal Crossing playing by my girl. Never drift. But can’t use amiibo. Lame.
Big company always lie a
My Phat PS3 didn't even get a chance to fail on it's own. My dad dropped it on the floor whilst vacuuming.
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mine I traded for a slim... then a lighting bolt fried it so I had to buy a new one. RIP
I find it funny that the third party joystick parts I got in 2018 still work perfectly. Really tells me that branding doesn't mean jack.
I genuinely don't know a single switch owner that doesn't have it. I don't think it's just something that happens to a small amount of people, I think it's just something that happens to every joycon with enough use.
I also think that they're looking at data where people are actually seeking repairs and extrapolating their percentages from there, meanwhile, most people just say screw it and get new controllers because it's such a pain in the ass to send them in for repairs.
Yeah that's the issue, I'm surprised that Nintendo said it only happened to 5(?)% of the French
As far as I've seen, my brother and sister-in-law haven't had any drift since they got theirs in early 2020, so I'm waiting for the day they experience it
I don't use my joy cons nor do I want to lol other than Turing on my switch it's very easy to never use the joy cons plus your really limiting yourself using them with the joy sticks being so small
wow! So crazy to think this entire video was created by my mind!
Who knows what the human brain can expand to?
The human mind is incredible
@@nybrax860 As a human, i beg to disagree
I love how we're all imagining this video.
I just changed my left joycon stick, because I felt like it.
@@an3582 Wait, wait, wait, hold on, hold on, you just said this controller was fine, why would you want a new one?
@@lucasdellamaggiore "Uhh well, I don't know..."
@@TheHuskyK9 OH, YOU DON'T KNOW. YOU. DON'T. KNOW. DID YOU HEAR THAT EVERYONE? HE SAYS HE DOESN'T KNOW!!!!
I love that video 😂
I got it on my Switch Gamecube controller, I didn't even think that was possible
I am a simple man. I get home, I eat a whole pizza and I play games. I started my favorite game from my favorite franchise a mere few days ago. Monster Hunter Rise. And now...when I carve or move, I stare at the floor. My heart is broken.
As a fellow MH fan, I really, really recommend cleaning the interior of your joysticks with isopropyl alcohol, as it solved all my Joycon drift issues. Get it into the interior of the sticks with a cotton swab, leave to dry for a few minutes, and keep repeating that process intermittently as you use the joycons more.
It's helped solve my drifting issues and everyone deserves to play Rise without having to deal with that BS.
I would recommend buying a pro controller as their less likely to drift. (There is also a Monster Hunter pro controller.)
@@deltacroissant2009 im getting that real soon im tired of drifting
I liked how they played Glass Joe`s theme from the Wii version of Punch-Out!! when talking about the legal actions being taken in *France*
It's really funny to me because I legit just sent in my joycon to be repaired for drift and when I come home this video is in my feed.
Any time "Nintendo Legal Trouble/Lawsuit" is mentioned: Time to use these same 5 clips of the first 5 minutes of Mario Sunshine.
Lolllllllllllllllllllllll
So true tho
Joy-Con Tokyo Drift 🚗💨🗼
DK... That's right, Drift King!
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Joy-Con Drift: The Game
I've sent all 4 of my joy cons to be repaired for free, and what do you know, they're drifting again.
Maybe take care of your stuff instead of hating Nintendo. Most people’s joycon are fixed as soon as they send them in. I think this is a you problem.
@@thesemothafukrsneverseenth9725 Most doesn't mean all now does it? No, it means that only a small handful of people are actually getting their stuff fixed while others continue to have issues. If the company is aware that there is an issue which they themselves admit to saying if you actually watched the video instead of skipping straight to the ending then yes we can blame them for supplying us the consumers with faulty hardware.
Same here, except here it isn’t free.
@@varoennauraa in some cases it's free while sadly as it was stated either buy a repair kit or buy a new set of controllers. Personally if the issue is this bad then Nintendo really needs to step it up seeing how Microsoft seems to be the better gaming company as of late.
@@thesemothafukrsneverseenth9725 Taking care of your stuff? Nintendo decided to be cheap and use graphite pads for tracking the joystick movements on the joycons. It's a technology that wears down with use. There is no way to avoid it as sooner or later they all end up doing that. They can't fix it either because the entire design of the controllers was made for the graphite pad technology.
Man, I feel bad for the people that experienced Joy-con drift. Hope this get's resolved very soon. I've been lucky though, haven't had any issues.
It's due to one of the metal clips on the back of the analog stick housing coming loose, just slap a piece of construction paper in there to maintain pressure and no more drift.
Another way to fix this is to just avoid buying nintendo's trash and to go with a third party for the joycons which shockingly never seem to have an issue even after a year of heavy use.