On April 23, Kotaku reported that a former Nintendo repair center director, who did not want to be named, revealed that the problem of Switch rocker drift was quite serious.
Ray learned that a third-party repair shop in Syracuse, New York, usa, is responsible for handling the Nintendo Switch repair after-sales service in the eastern United States, and the director of the after-sales center said that thousands of joystick drift Joy-Con handles are sent every week, and even have to open up a new independent working space for this small handle.
It has been reported that customers who sent Joy-Con handles from 2017 to 2018 received a new replacement instead of a repair, but later changed to a repair replacement service. The above-mentioned repair center, the standard is to repair 90% of the inbound Joy-Con within 4 days, resulting in a lot of staff pressure, and many of them are temporary employees, lack of advanced expertise, and often make mistakes in the maintenance process.
Switch's Joy-Con handle drift is nothing new, and the problem has accompanied Switch almost to this day. The so-called handle drift, that is, when the user does not operate the Joy-Con handle, the joystick will still have a subtle input value. The Switch OLED launched by Nintendo last year still did not solve the problem of handle drift, allowing users to love and hate the Switch.
Nintendo itself also admitted to the drift of the controller, apologized to the user, and said that it would repair the drifting Joy-Con controller for free, but the Switch was released until now it is only in the middle of its life, even if the official can repair Joy-Con for free, Xiao Lei believes that not many users have the patience to wait for Nintendo to repair.
In this regard, many netizens are also offering strange tricks, some are directly replacing a set of Switch Pro handles, trying to avoid the situation of handle drift. Other hands-on small partners, is to buy WD40 precision electrical cleaner to repair themselves, it is said that the effect is quite good, after using it has not appeared drift problems, Xiao Lei suggested that users who encounter handle drift can also try it.
Having said that, but Xiao Lei does not think that the manufacturer will be the device of the common problem to the user to solve is a good way, the user spent money to buy Switch and the game has to find their own way to repair the gamepad drift, undoubtedly increased the cost of use, even if the new Switch is not so fast, but also hope that Nintendo can completely solve The "historical legacy problem" of Joy-Con, less let the player worry about it.