So What About Joy-Con Stick Drift on the Nintendo Switch 2? Nintendo Responds

Anyone who owns a Nintendo Switch volition cognize astir Joy-Con instrumentality drift. It’s erstwhile the Joy-Con Control Sticks halt responding correctly, oregon endure from "drifting."

Complaints astir Joy-Con drift were truthful large that Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa apologized for the "inconvenience" and launched a escaped repair program. Nintendo of America brag Doug Bowser has talked astir the "battle against" Joy-Con drift, insisting Nintendo was making continuous improvements. It was specified a large occupation that parents successful the U.S. tried to writer implicit Joy-Con drift successful a class-action lawsuit, though Nintendo ended up fending that off.

In 2022, a UK user radical alleged Nintendo Switch's Joy-Con drift contented was caused by a cardinal plan flaw. A study from Which claimed that, adjacent aft conscionable a fewer months of use, the Joy-Con's integrative circuit boards amusement important deterioration connected the joystick slider interaction points, causing Joy-Con drift.

This week, Nintendo afloat unveiled the Switch 2 successful a Nintendo Direct, showing disconnected the caller Joy-Con 2 and its other functionality. In Nintendo Switch 2 tech specs published by the company, determination is nary item connected the sticks themselves. So arsenic of now, we don’t cognize for definite if Joy-Con 2 usage the hallway effect sensors Nintendo fans are hopeless for.

As Switch 2 shaper Kouichi Kawamoto described successful a caller 'Ask the Developer' interview, the Switch 2's Joy-Cons person “larger and much durable” analog sticks “with smoother movement.”

It was a likewise vague effect erstwhile Nintendo was asked astir Joy-Con drift improvements astatine a hardware-focused roundtable Q&A successful New York yesterday, attended by IGN.

Tetsuya Sasaki, General Manager astatine Nintendo’s Technology Development Division, and Senior Director astatine its Technology Development Department, told the assembled media that the caller Joy-Con 2 controllers were redesigned “from the crushed up,” but failed to accidental thing circumstantial astir drifting.

“As you whitethorn person witnessed and felt, the caller Joy-Con 2 controllers for the Nintendo Switch 2 person been truly designed from the crushed up, from scratch, and they've been designed to person bigger question and besides smoother movement,” Sasaki said.

In the 'Ask the Developer' interview, Kawamoto talked astir the caller Switch 2 Pro Controller and its sticks, saying they’re "quieter."

“Aside from the color, the Nintendo Switch 2 Pro Controller whitethorn look indistinguishable from the erstwhile controller astatine archetypal glance, but it was besides redesigned from scratch,” Kawamoto explained.

“In particular, the near and close power sticks are quieter and don’t marque noise, adjacent erstwhile they’re moved rapidly to the edge. Also, they glide precise smoothly, truthful we've taken to calling them ‘smooth-gliding sticks.’ (Laughs)”

Sasaki added: "As they’re calling them ‘smooth-gliding sticks,’ we made efforts to trim the feeling of bumping erstwhile you tilt them. In fact, there's been a long-running task astatine Nintendo with the expansive ambition of processing the ‘pinnacle of each controllers,’ and we’ve been researching it hard for a agelong clip now.”

The impervious of the pudding is successful the eating, of course. We won’t cognize however the Switch 2 Joy-Con clasp up nether strain possibly until years aft the console comes out. But hopefully, based connected what Nintendo is saying now, Joy-Con drift volition beryllium a happening of the past.

For more, cheque retired everything announced astatine the Switch 2 Nintendo Direct, and what the experts person to accidental astir the Switch 2 terms and Mario Kart World’s $80 terms tag.

Wesley is the UK News Editor for IGN. Find him connected Twitter astatine @wyp100. You tin scope Wesley astatine [email protected] oregon confidentially astatine [email protected].