The main gimmick is that it's portable

Casualfag admitting to be a casualfag who hasn't played enough.

Basically something inside the joystick gets fucked up and it starts registering inputs even if you aren’t touching it and the stick is still centered. I had one get bad enough that it was impossible for me to do anything with because it just could NOT stop registering as being in the fully up position. Luckily you can replace the stick for really cheap, but that stick is already showing signs of drift too.

I like nintendo games a lot, but god do I hate their dumb hardware gimmicks maki the actual user experience so fucking awkward and shitty.

I'm not a Snoy, I just want to be able to play my Switch in handheld mode without unbearable drift. I thought it was overblown too until it happened to me.
Using a pro controller is the only way around it for me, and using one feels like shit outside of docked mode so essentially handheld mode is useless to me.
I'm not American, if it were actually free in Europe I'd send them in.

Whild Switch is special for being shittier than most, all analogue sticks get it eventually. It's in their nature to be garbage.

Other than camera control, there shouldn't be a stick on anything.

honestly the joycon drift is the only thing keeping me from buying a switch. I don't want to have to pay 100 dollars every month to buy new switch controllers

>go to big corp store inc.
>buy new joycons
>wait a day
>package old broken joycon in the new box, claim they sold me broken shit
>refunded and new working joycon for free
I mean Nintendo still sucks but joycon drift starts happening after 6/8 months so you can do this everytime and the new wageslave at the shop won't even know you.

>gimmick
you don't know what that word means

Every month, probably not. 6? Maybe.

Since you're implying it can only be bad you're the one who doesn't know what it means.

A gimmick is a selling point which is what being handheld is. Or more precisely being a handheld that can connect to the TV for those who care.

no, gimmick means something that's meant to attract attention, but it isn't really that useful. literally every dictionary confirms this

I think my joycon lasted for like 6 months before drifting. I'm not one of those autistic fucks that mash the sticks like smash players, I play like a normal human being does.
It's pretty BS, and if I hadn't stolen thousands pirating games, I would be pretty upset. Right now I just feel mildly annoyed whenever I die or fall off a cliff in some game because my stick moved on its own

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tried WD-40 or some similar spray?

Yeah, it's just a temporary fix. There's an explanation on Reddit about why this happens, and it's a design flaw that wears down the sensors. Eventually any small particle of dust will make contact and move the stick, no matter how much you use canned air or contact cleaner. It will just keep happening.

>tfw just bought a switch
I think I fucked up. Can't I just replace the stick itself when it starts to fail instead of having to buy joycons?

I genuinely think the joycon drift is more widespread than the RRoD, it's just that Nintendo gets a free pass because they're Nintendo while any other company would have been burned at the stake.

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that sucks. I've had mine since april and it hasn't happened yet
nintendo will repair them for free if they drift, but I bet it's a hassle to go through that process

Just wait a couple months, it's inevitable. Even the Lite and the V2 versions have the drift.

To put it in layman's terms, the contact board is coated with graphite while the analog pointer is made of steel. Eventually the steel scrapes the graphite away because of physics, which is why this happens to everyone and it's a terrible design flaw only outdone by the RRoD.

What is more noticable?
>something that renders your console completely unusable
or
>one dusti boi

>Even the Lite and the V2 versions have the drift.
How the fuck is nintendo this incompetent.

Well the rrod made the entire console a deadweight, drift "only" the controllers. Also, it's easier to scam amazon or big chains out of a joycon rather than a full console with the refund trick.

Literally me and every person I know with a switch have this problem after 6 months+. Like 20 of 20 switches or so. I'm glad you are lucky enough to not experience this bullshit

Wait, so if a Lite gets drift the system is completely fucked? Holy shit.

Unironically it's expenses study.
They probably had a research that made them realize the cost of replacing joycons in NA was less than changing parts and building process at their plants, so that's how they do it.
EU take it up the ass because they don't have big dick class actions to threaten nintendo with, so no free refund for us.

Thank god for clueless Argos employees though.