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Switch 2 Joy-Con Will Not Feature Hall Effect Sticks (www.nintendolife.com)
submitted 6 days ago by misk@sopuli.xyz to c/games@sh.itjust.works
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One of the biggest issues that's plagued the Nintendo Switch since its launch in 2017 is stick drift. In fact, Nintendo faced several lawsuits as a result of the issue, with an ex-repair supervisor previously stating that the workload to fix drifting Joy-Con was "very stressful".

Now, while we can acknowledge that Nintendo has undoubtedly been working hard behind the scenes to mitigate the issue for the upcoming Switch 2, we're nevertheless disheartened to confirm that the Joy-Con 2's joysticks will not be Hall Effect.

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[–] slimerancher@lemmy.world 16 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Nintendo filed that patent about joysticks that wouldn't get drift, like Hall Effect, but some other tech without magnets (IIRC), I was hoping we may see it in Switch 2. Seems like either it wasn't ready yet, or it was just one of the random patents companies regularly file.

[–] SculptusPoe@lemmy.world 16 points 6 days ago (1 children)

They will wait a few months and then sell the premium joycons at twice the price of regular joycons.

[–] slimerancher@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Even that will be cheaper than buying 3 sets of JoyCon, so don't keep your hopes up.

[–] SculptusPoe@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Well... To be fair, I have a switch for me and a switch for my wife that we played daily animal crossing on for years besides our other games and never had a tracking issue, or any other issue, on either one, so it isn't an inevitable failure. But it does give me anxiety expecting it to happen at any time.