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Nintendo of Europe agrees to pay €35m fine for Joy-Con drift defects | GamesIndustry.biz
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Who gets the money tho :)
this post was submitted on 08 Jun 2026
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Wow. How many cents will we get each?
40ish million sold, so... 85¢ sound good?
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. 🙃
The amount of money I had to spend buying/repairing joycons put me off playing the Switch at all. Wasn't worth it.
I had 2 pairs that they repaired for free. One of them twice. At that point it would have probably been cheaper to redesign them, but idk.
Not sure why you paid a lot to get them repaired, it was very easy to get the free repairs (at least in Europe).
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.
they've doubled down on their mistake
How so? Is JoyCon drift still a thing on the Switch 2?
Mine is definitely going that way.
If they didn't go with hall effect sensors, the answer is yes
Not widely yet, AFAIK. But they didn't use Hall Effect or TMR Sticks wich would have been immune to it so its just a matter of time until they wear out (might last longer, but won't last a long time).
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.
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Depends. If it's just a fine, yes. If it's what the Dutch call a "dwangsom" they will have increasingly higher fines until they fix it.
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.
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.
TMR sticks are great, too. No drift after almost a year. And I don't expect there to be for the lifetime of the product.
Nvr had any drift with my hall effect controllers, I didn't even know what it was until my friend showed it to me
I've been using my steam deck since launch very regularly and so far no drift.