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notamechanic321, do games w New Nintendo patent suggests Switch 2 may solve joycon drift

Gulikit already beat them to the punch! 10 quid for a pair of new joysticks on Amazon.

Repair don’t replace!

GrammatonCleric, do games w New Nintendo patent suggests Switch 2 may solve joycon drift
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  • Toad_the_Fungus,

    the left joycon on my switch started drifting after a couple of years, meanwhile the gamecube controller ive had and used for about 20 years still works perfectly

    nutlink,

    I've had my Switch since launch and haven't had any drifting issues. My brothers both had it though, so I think I've just been incredibly lucky.

    Viirax,
    @Viirax@kbin.social avatar

    For me the issue was much worse than drift. One of my joy-cons, that were not really used all that much so the "abusing your controllers" would just be false, just decided that it didn't want to work on the Y axis any more, and the quick fix was the add some credit card thick cardboard behind the joystick box. The controllers were just really badly made in the first place.

    Diasl,

    That’s really not the case, my switch got very light use (like a couple of hours a month) and after about 14 months it started drifting.

    JakoJakoJako13, do games w Diablo 4 GM confirms “annual expansions” for the game
    @JakoJakoJako13@lemmy.world avatar

    This is the first Diablo game that I’ve uninstalled within a year of getting it. The fact that it’s only been a couple months and it got worse not better makes this worse. It’s a seriously flawed game, and expansions won’t help it.

    ArchmageAzor, do games w Diablo 4 GM confirms “annual expansions” for the game
    @ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world avatar

    I played the demo and had a decently fun time with it. I probably would have bought it if it was like $50-$60. Of course it releases at $80 for the base version and no price drop since. Then comes the talk of the grindiness, now this. Just a bad deal all around.

    GrayBackgroundMusic,

    It was good at release, but it’s been mediocre at best, garbage at worst, since.

    Astroturfed,

    The $80 pricetage made me not even consider it. Especially when you know they’re going to milk as much cash out of you as they can for expansions/DLC or anything else.

    DerisionConsulting, do gaming w Switch 2 leaks claim console runs “like a PS5”, FF7R to be launch title & more - Dexerto

    Bad title.

    “FF7R looks and runs like a PS5 game on Switch 2 devkit."

    The person does not claim that the Switch 2 runs like a PS5, just that this specific game, while on the devkit, looks like a PS5 game.

    Devkits are not final hardware, and one game isn’t enough to evaluate a system.

    SplashJackson, do games w Tekken 8 replaces their entire balance team after disastrous Season 2 update

    Season? Is Tekken a tv show now? Shit.

    littlebluespark, do games w Tekken 8 players divided as devs add “Tekken Shop” with microtransactions
    @littlebluespark@lemmy.world avatar

    Called it.

    Dick_Justice, do games w New Nintendo patent suggests Switch 2 may solve joycon drift
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    I lost four sets of Joycon to drift. I even sent two in to be “repaired”. Talking to support was worthless - I’m convinced that the people I spoke to had never seen or used a Switch before. I don’t think they did anything other than calibrate them and send them back. I ended up buying a 20 pair of knockoff Joycon that have worked perfectly ever since.

    deft,

    what brand?

    Dick_Justice,
    @Dick_Justice@lemmy.world avatar

    My old Amazon order says Vivefox, but they don’t seem to be for sale anymore. I’m pretty sure at the time there were a bunch of companies offering the same ones, like a Chinese dropship kind of thing.

    Sniper,

    repairing joycon drift is super easy. ifixit.com and the joystick modules are 5 bucks on amazon. People need to lose this fear over opening and repairing their own electronics.

    rikudou,
    @rikudou@lemmings.world avatar

    Why, though? Let them fix it, if they’re selling broken. Especially here in Europe they have to fix it within a mandatory 2-year warranty.

    Sniper,

    Cause i’m never gonna let them fix it themselves after they lost one of my ($40) joycons then threw their hands up and said it was my fault. Plus it takes them 3 weeks to do it anyway which is a long time without the games console I paid for

    Engywuck,

    It’s 3 year in Spain, since Jan 2022 (just adding info).

    tal,
    @tal@kbin.social avatar

    A bunch of controllers have extremely obnoxious security bits required. I had to get two separate bit sets to open a bunch of controllers.

    EliteCow, do games w New Nintendo patent suggests Switch 2 may solve joycon drift
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    Well I would hope so…

    morphballganon, (edited ) do games w New Nintendo patent suggests Switch 2 may solve joycon drift

    It would be 100% possible for game devs to include an option to mitigate drift (require the stick to be pushed at least ~x% to move at all, adjustable anywhere from 10 for slight drift to 50 for extreme cases). Haven’t seen the slightest effort nor heard a peep on that.

    Bunch of people in the replies seemingly never tried to play puzzle games with drift and have no idea how much trouble it can cause. Do the puzzles in The Last Campfire with joycon drift and let me know how it goes.

    PM_ME_FEET_PICS,

    That’s not a valid option. 50% is terrible for joystick dead zone and is considered poor quality.

    fartsparkles,

    As a Steam Deck user, even the thought of a 50% dead zone makes me nauseous.

    morphballganon,

    It wouldn’t be the default, obviously… did you read the first part of my post?

    priapus,

    It makes way more sense for that to be an OS level option, not per game. It also makes even more sense to have hall effect joysticks and avoid the problem entirely.

    bulgogi,

    You might as well be using a d-pad at that point

    circuitfarmer,
    @circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

    Or use Hall Effect sticks and have no deadzone at all

    ChairmanMeow,
    @ChairmanMeow@programming.dev avatar

    Wouldn’t solve it, drift can affect regular joystick operation as well, where pushing it all the way to the side could show up as it being stuck in the middle.

    etchinghillside, do games w Diablo 4 GM confirms “annual expansions” for the game

    Two new classes over 4 years?

    Caligvla, do games w Switch 2 leaks claim console runs “like a PS5”, FF7R to be launch title & more - Dexerto
    @Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

    Congrats Nintendo, you’re only 5 years late to the party! 😃

    Frogster8,

    Ironically this gripe is just as outdated

    0li0li, do gaming w Ubisoft tells players to “destroy” games when online support ends

    If you don’t buy the game, then you are not bound by the EULA, so…

    frenchfryenjoyer, do gaming w Ubisoft tells players to “destroy” games when online support ends
    @frenchfryenjoyer@lemmings.world avatar

    Keygen music intensifies

    ColdWater, do games w Roblox gets banned indefinitely in Turkey over “child exploitation”
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    Lol nice

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