inclementimmigrantJun 16, 2025

Switch 2 Teardown: Still Glued, Still Soldered, Still Drifting

https://lemmy.world/post/31472316

Switch 2 Teardown: Still Glued, Still Soldered, Still Drifting - Lemmy.World

>Joysticks: Probably Still Drifty >Joy-Con joysticks use a potentiometer to read the voltage at a wiper that slides across a strip of resistive material. That material wears down over time, or plastic and dust can dirty the sensors. >Stick drift is a huge problem with other Switch models. One survey found that 40% of Switch owners had problems with their Joy-Cons drifting, and things didn’t get any better with the Lite or OLED editions. After a bunch of lawsuits, Nintendo’s president even admitted it and apologized, setting up a free repair program for customers in some parts of the world.

Show threadLandedGentryJun 16, 2025

Looking forward to the Nintendo fanboys telling me how this is actually good for switch 2 owners.

Seriously Nintendo is so fucking cheap and ridiculous sometimes. They’ve had almost a decade to solve this.

Show threadLyra_Lycan
And the deluded fucks still charge more than US$250 for their half-a-console. It’s got good processing power and stellar shell construction, but charging the same price Xbox and PlayStation do for a handheld main with the same trash joysticks, tiny battery, stickers for the Joy-Con socket decal, plastic screen and 1080p display? In 2025?
Jun 16, 2025 at 2:14pmWeb
Show threadLandedGentryJun 16, 2025
I do appreciate how hard it is to make a powerful, lightweight, long-battery life handheld. But where they are cutting corners is the real issue to me. $450 isn’t even that insane of a price, but at $450 I should expect the joysticks to last more than 6mo.