Anyone who owns a Nintendo Switch will know about Joy-Con stick drift. It’s when the Joy-Con Control Sticks stop responding correctly, or suffer from "drifting." Complaints about Joy-Con drift were so ...

TL;DR: Nintendo Switch users have long faced Joy-Con stick drift issues, leading to lawsuits and free repairs. The upcoming Switch 2 Joy-Con will not use Hall Effect sticks, which are less prone to ...

Nintendo speaking with VideoGamesChronicle was asked about the Joy-Con analog stick drift issue with the Switch 1 and stated the Joy-Cons on the Switch 2 have been improved. "The control sticks for ...

PCMag editors select and review products independently. If you buy through affiliate links, we may earn commissions, which help support our testing. Nintendo says the Switch 2's Joy-Con controllers ...

Nintendo says the Switch 2 Joy-Cons were rebuilt from the ground up, but early hardware breakdowns suggest they're quite similar to the originals under the hood, and comparably prone to the analog ...

Details on a new Nintendo patent application for a controller with magnetic analog sticks have surfaced, suggesting that the company's next peripheral won't suffer--possibly on a Switch 2--from the ...

A new Nintendo controller patent appears to include magnetic analogue sticks, which some have suggested raises hopes the company’s next generation console won’t suffer the drift issues that have ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The Nintendo Switch remains one of the world's most popular game consoles of all time. However, criticism has been leveled at Nintendo since ...

Dominik Bošnjak is a freelance writer from Croatia. He has been writing about games for as long as he can remember and began doing so professionally circa 2010. If he was forced to pick a favorite ...