Anyone who owns a Nintendo Switch will know about Joy-Con stick drift. It’s when the Joy-Con Control Sticks stop responding correctly, or suffer from "drifting." Complaints about Joy-Con drift were so ...

While Switch 1 did have some stinkers – namely the Super Smash Bros Joy-Con – these feel like a pointless addition. Hopefully ...

TL;DR: Nintendo Switch users have long faced Joy-Con stick drift issues, leading to lawsuits and free repairs. The upcoming Switch 2 Joy-Con will not use Hall Effect sticks, which are less prone to ...

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The Joy-Con 2 controllers Nintendo Switch 2 comes equipped with will not feature Hall effect analog sticks, Nintendo has now confirmed, dashing hopes that the new controllers might make use of the ...

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New 3rd party Switch 2 Joy-Cons are now available in China, promising to replicate most features and including hall effect ...

I have two sets of Joy-Con controllers, both of which suffer from analog stick drifting. If you’re lucky enough to have avoided that (so far, at least — it comes for us all, I believe), it’s when your ...

A user teardown of the Nintendo Switch 2 Joy Cons revealed similar stick components. The Switch 1 Joy Cons have been plagued with drift problems for years. Other changes to the Joy Con design may ...

Nintendo has revealed the first Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con colour variant and it will be a light purple/light green ...

If Nintendo won’t fix the problem, someone else will. GuliKit dropped its replacement kit for Nintendo Switch’s Joy-Con joysticks that uses Hall effect sensors instead. That means no more stick drift ...