Wow. How many cents will we get each?
40ish million sold, so… 85¢ sound good?
Such value! Given that the joycons are like €85 for a pair, I’m getting so much back!
Imagine if fines actually scaled in a sensible manner. 🙃
The amount of money I had to spend buying/repairing joycons put me off playing the Switch at all. Wasn’t worth it.
And they’ve doubled down on their mistake with the Switch 2. Should eventually see another bigger fine, hopefully. €35 million is cheap for Nintendo.
they’ve doubled down on their mistake
How so? Is JoyCon drift still a thing on the Switch 2?
Read on launch that somebody asked Nintendo and they confirmed the sticks use the same flawed tech as the the original Switch.
If they didn’t go with hall effect sensors, the answer is yes
Not widely yet, AFAIK. But they didn’t use Hall Effect or TMR Sticks wich would have been immune to it so its just a matter of time until they wear out (might last longer, but won’t last a long time).
Mine is definitely going that way.
They still use potentiometer sticks, which degrade over time due to physical contact between all the bits vs hall effect and TMR which uses fancier magnets that require less physical content.
The big 3 console brands all don’t use HE or TMR, since potentiometer sticks are cheaper and they see the constant replacement of controllers (or their parts) by consumers as beneficial to their profits, making the shareholders and big business officials happy.
But then you have third-party brands like GuliKit, GameSir, and 8BitDo, who use HE or TMR to help differentiate from the big first-party players and to stand out from the crowd.
From my experience with an in-store Switch 2, the joysticks seem to be slightly bigger and are quite a bit smoother. That might mean that it will last slightly longer than the smaller Switch 1 sticks (bigger things are usually more reliable when it comes to these kinds of tiny parts), but it’s still potentiometer sticks, so it will experience stick drift over time to a similar degree.
I had 2 pairs that they repaired for free. One of them twice. At that point it would have probably been cheaper to redesign them, but idk.
Not sure why you paid a lot to get them repaired, it was very easy to get the free repairs (at least in Europe).
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Depends. If it’s just a fine, yes. If it’s what the Dutch call a “dwangsom” they will have increasingly higher fines until they fix it.
Now do ps5 ones. I’ve bought three in three years and all the have developed drift. Not once, in thousands of hours of gaming on previous don’t systems, did that ever happen. I refuse to buy them again.
Who gets the money tho :)
