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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Nintendo is still actively looking into resolving the dreaded Joy-Con drift. The Nintendo hybrid console platform was a huge hit and a much-needed one at that. Nintendo had a real dud with the Wii U, ...

The Nintendo Switch 2 debut answered a lot of questions surrounding the release date, price, and launch lineup, but there is still a lot left unanswered. One lingering question is whether the new ...

Nintendo has confirmed that Switch 2’s Joy-Cons will not use Hall Effect thumbsticks despite all the stick drift issues Switch owners have put up with since the console launched in 2017. For years now ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Joy-Con Drift has been one of the biggest problems in the Nintendo Switch era, and it doesn’t seem ...

Every video game controller suffers from wear-and-tear. And the most common way for this wear-and-tear to materialize is through stick drift, which refers to when an analog stick moves itself without ...

The big picture: Analog sticks using Hall effect sensors are nothing new but companies like Nintendo, Microsoft, Sony, and Valve have yet to incorporate them into their gaming controllers. Stick drift ...