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Nintendo of Europe agrees to pay €35m fine for Joy-Con drift defects | GamesIndustry.biz (www.gamesindustry.biz)
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[–] em2@lemmy.ml 8 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

The amount of money I had to spend buying/repairing joycons put me off playing the Switch at all. Wasn't worth it.

[–] martini1992@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 hours ago

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.

[–] Dojan@pawb.social 23 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Wow. How many cents will we get each?

[–] lime@feddit.nu 13 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

40ish million sold, so... 85¢ sound good?

[–] Dojan@pawb.social 11 points 13 hours ago

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. 🙃

[–] keyhoh@piefed.social 7 points 12 hours ago

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.

[–] turdas@suppo.fi 6 points 14 hours ago

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[–] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

Joystick controller technology HAS NEVER BEEN PERFECTED. Every handheld controller type I've ever had ends up having that one controller that drifts. N64, PS4, Oculus Quest, Windows, they all have a controller that drifts.

[–] brsrklf@jlai.lu 3 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Hall effect sticks don't have that problem, and they're not new. Dreamcast controllers had one.

And nowadays third parties can make them even in the tiny joycon form factor.

[–] AngryPancake@sh.itjust.works 0 points 4 hours ago

I've been using my steam deck since launch very regularly and so far no drift.

[–] Dagnet@lemmy.world 6 points 11 hours ago

Nvr had any drift with my hall effect controllers, I didn't even know what it was until my friend showed it to me