So I dropped my switch and the whole stick for my joy-con came out so I tried putting it back in only to learn one of the things that holds it in place broke so I can barely move it upwards and if I do it's at a snail's pace. WHICH AS A PAPER MARIO PLAYER SUCKS.
Someone discovered that the metal bottom of the stick comes unclipped due to having a gap between it and the shell of the Joy Con. Putting a piece of card stock under it fixed the drift in all of the ones he tried it on.
@@OwentheDuckyBoi VK's channel, just warning! this is not a permanent repair, as my friend above said the drift is provoked by wearing inside the graphite that detects movement leaving hollow inside the stick causing the drift, the cardboard works making pressure to keep the graphite in place but the stick is gonna keep wearing with the use, buying the gulikit replacement stick is a better option to fix the drift but you gotta know how to replace the stick.
Well one of the reasons that joy-cons get sick drift is that Dust gets under the faps that the joy-cons use to decide what to do So you probably just don't put them in dusty areas
Speaking as someone who used to repair joycons, it's not a dirt or dust issue. It's caused by too much force being applied to the joystick, denting the thin metal plate that makes up the joystick's back.
Fun fact: Pressing the stick button has nothing to do with stick drift. The contact pads scratch over time and use, specially with aggresive use like using them for Smash Bros, but the button mechanism was designed so pressing the stick doesn't change the pressure on the contact pads whatsoever
As a side fact: My first left joy con started drifting after 2 years only because I started flicking the stick to cancel auto attacks in Xenoblade Chronicles 2. Most people will let go off the stick and let it go back to centrr with all its force. That's what scratches the contact pads more easily and leads to stick drift
I’ve had a Nintendo switch with four joy cons for like four years Not one of them has stick drift Got my first Xbox in February this year It’s a series s It is already unusable, started getting stick drift last month The fact my monitor is still 100% intact is a miracle Edit: my dad dropped a cricket bat on it a couple of months ago I am now using a bigger older better monitor
Man I've had multiple Xbox controls and none have every gotten drift, there are 3 sets of joycons in my house and every single one has drift, i envy you in the joycon aspect not so much in the Xbox aspect
@ẞooßys yeah but an xbox controller getting stick drift after a month? I've had 2 Xbox one controllers for 4 years now and they both don't have stick drift, but my original pair of joy cons of 6 years are a battered
My joycons started drifting after a chill virtual camping session in BOTW in the final days before TOTK's release. I already had a Hori Split Pad by then but it made me kind of sad.
My siblings leave everything upside down, causing drift even on good ps5 controllers and stuff, and covered in disgusting crap. Food, sweat, snot maybe? Making it really annoying to play without cleaning them every single time. I even tried getting my own controller and tablet and mostly my sister ruined them.
For me my joycons drift 3 times and I was playing casually with Super Mario Odyssey, motion games, and indie games heck even Arlo (big Nintendo UA-camr) has this problem but I did found some solutions to fix it and there's 2 ways 1. The loose plate problem, this happens when the plate underneath the analog stick gets loose, to find out add pressure to the center of joycons, if the drifting stop then that means the plate is loose solution: grab a business card and cut it into a small square then open the joycon and put it underneath the analog stick plate then close it up and test it to see it works. 2. Dust inside the plate, the material that joycons uses causes dust to happen not just dust outside in order to fix you will need a can of compress air then open the joycon and spray air in it. This is the hardest part because you will to try to remove dust from inside the plate and opening the plate could be a little dangerous for the analog stick. If still with drifting problem then call Nintendo for a free fix (I don't know if they still do a free joycons fix) or replace the analog stick with a new analog stick at Amazon.
Other thing that causes joy con drift is precisely the wear of the inner plastic of the joy cons, so if you don't use them, like, to play competitive smash or any fighting game that needs brutal stick combinations, and you just move gently the stick, your likely to never get the stick drift, I also had a pair of joy cons that didn't had drift for years until my mom lend my switch to my cousin when I wasn't at home
That's right. That's why I buy knock off controllers for anyone to use, even those are $40 a pair and they work quite well though. The $30 corded controllers for others aswel. $80 a pair is to expensive to let otjer people destroy
The joycon actually drift because the innards of the stick are made of graphite, the same stuff in pencils, and it eventually wears down and becomes prone to miss inputs, including drift.
Literally never had drift in any controller in my entire life. Even Joycons. Either I’m lucky or people are extremely harsh with their controllers. I’d say the second option
I got mine on launch day and never had to deal with drift... On Joy Cons. I DID get drift on a $25 wired Metroid controller with no rumble. Which is probably for the better since it means the nice orange chrome on the sticks doesn't wear off, since I never use it anymore.
I've played fortnite on switch for years and I've never got joycon drift on it, or for any game in that matter. while playing it. The only thing that messes my joycons up is when I switch them and they don't stick into the console and keep sliding off easily.
Same thing here cause my brother used to play on his iPad a ton and like a month after he started playing Fortnite on my switch with his friends it suddenly started to drift
If we were putting weifht on it then it would register as clicking the sticks, which in some games you don’t wanna hold it. So you either have a place with no dust in the air or you’re lying
Mine drifted because they were used in SSBU. After we got them replaced, I made a new rule that the joycon controller can't be used for SSBU anymore. It's no biggie since we have 3 original gamecube controllers and a Wirebird one.
So UA-cam really is the answer. UA-cam ruined my Switch and Wii U just because I wanted to scroll to the very bottom of the recommended list. Like it has a very bottom lol
BROOOO CLEAN UP THAT JOYSTICK ON THE NEON RED JOYCON THERES FOOD GREASE AND/OR OIL, seriously though, please just take a wet wipe or damp rag/paper towel and wipe the joystick down, it’s disgusting
My Joycons are starting to automatically remove themselves from my Switch whenever I'm playing in handheld, which I do a lot, so now I'm forced to play TEARS OF THE KINGDOM! on my TV! I think Nintendo could have really done better when designing those things, ESPECIALLY because their consoles are more depicted as being for kids! I can't even imagine how fast a three year old would absolutely demolish those Joycons!
ive started out with 2 joy cons got a pro controller later on and now currently have 2 more pairs of joy cons and my pro controller and first pair have gotten stick drift few times but all i did was reconnect them and it was fixed drift has never been a problem for me
I’ve probably put almost four thousand hours on my Switch, and the right number and R3 buttons on the Joycons were the only thing to fail on my first pair. If anything I’ve been having more issue with drift on my ProbController (though that one controller has been 90% of my gameplay so I’d say I’ve gotten my money’s worth out of it.)
This could actually be true. Cuz I’ve had both long lasting and drifting joycons. The long lasting have been treated extremely well and have no signs of damage on any part of the joysticks. Where as my drifting joycons actually have bumps on the bottom of the joysticks
I've had my Switch for 3 years now, and to this day I do not have stick drift....yet. And I played a ton of Smash Bros. I do, however, have buttons that are malfunctioning and input spamming so much that I had to disable them. So that's a thing.
I had one of my controller drift one time and I was able to fix it, basically what I found out that dead skins basically falls under the joystick which clogged up the sensor (small metal plates that detects movement) inside the joystick's mechanism, Fixed it with a dash of isopropyl alcohol and was working again! Moral of the story is that make sure your hands are clean before you use ur Controllers, if your hands aren't clean high chances are that dead cells or microscopic dirt are gonna fall under and will cause drift, That 's for my experience at least.
I have one pair of working Joycons my other 3 pairs all have stick drift, not only that but most of my Nintendo Switch controllers have gotten stick drift after some time, heck my new controller I got for Christmas just got stick drift yesterday. 😢
The pressure thing seems very true since one pair went down in 3 or 4 months till it got stick drift compared to now almost 2 years of no drift 😂 It sucks since shooter games like Fortnite or Overwatch or other games that just use the binds to the max It sucks to have Sprint and Crouch/Slide by default on the sticks
I've got years of experience in electronics repair and have fixed more joycons than I care to count. Joycon drift doesn't actually have anything to do with dirt getting into the controller. It's actually down to the thin metal plate that makes up the back of the joystick being dented by excessive force being used on the controller. When the plate becomes deformed, it takes the tension off internals of the joystick, allowing them to shift around, causing drift.
I had major stick drift for my old joycons, after i got new one, i learnt that i really shouldnt go THAT rough on my joycons while just walking around in inkopolis
I agree. My joy-con sticks got the rubber outline off on the L stick, all rubber on the R stick, the sensors broken on the R stick, the l and r buttons breaking and they still don't have drift.
Yea at this point im convinced stick drift on ps controllers and switch joycons are user error. Ive never ever had stick drift. Broken triggers, yea, a couple of times, but that was my fault, i was pushing them too hard, so i stopped and haven't had a broken one since
I don't exactly have the drift issue, rather, when I move the joystick up, it doesn't really register that I moved it up. All other directions are fine, just that one.
no...the reason why it drifts is mainly a garbage design flaw. Because overtime, the metal lid of the analog stick underneath loosens up over time due to wear and use. Because of that, the metal prongs inside the analog stick causes friction between that and the sensors which is made of graphite iirc. Because of that the graphite debris caused by the friction makes the sensors harder to read your inputs. The best way to prevent this from being an ongoing issue is to put a cardboard square under the analog stick after doing a teardown of the joycon (which somehow pushes the graphite away from the sensors and tightens the metal lid for good). Either that or squirting compressed air into the analog stick. Or you could just make the joycon vibrate to remove the dust if its not that bad.
Some games require more frequent/intense pressing the left stick like a button. People who play those games likely have a higher chance of stick drift.
Nintendo uses cheap material for the joystick on the joy-cons so especially stick drift which is annoying no wonder why people use a pro controller and save the for the little kids but make sure they just don’t absolutely destroy them.
If you experience drift, definitely try to recalibrate your joysticks first - before sending them in or buying new ones. It doesn't always work, but in my case it did
See I'm used to playing hard! 😂 Used to playing arcade games 🕹 so these controls where you need to be super gentle is hard to switch your play style if thats what your used too. I suspect it's the same for many others as well.
i habe my launch day switch still. the sticks dont gave drift, but thats because i never use them. in fact, the only thing i even use ky switcu for is dumping my own roms for an emulator so i dont have to look at the booty cheeks graohics of the switch, and can use controllers than dont leave my hands cramped after 2 seconds of use
running in the doom 3 hell areas and boss fights (which disables stamina allowing you to run for as long as you want, but at the price of disabling toggle sprint) will get my joycons destroyed
Same. My JoyCons hasn't gotten the drift issue yet at all.
The rubber on the joystick has gone worn out first before it even drifted.
Something similar happened with mine, my cousin took off the rubber parts and then the drift started to happen
So I dropped my switch and the whole stick for my joy-con came out so I tried putting it back in only to learn one of the things that holds it in place broke so I can barely move it upwards and if I do it's at a snail's pace. WHICH AS A PAPER MARIO PLAYER SUCKS.
my joycon literally stopped working and i had to switch before even getting a little drift (rip joycon i threw into the wall)
Same it’s annoying the shit out of me ngl
@@JustADumGuy maybe it has to do with the fact you threw it at a wall 😂 learn to control your emotions lil bro
running around in TEARS OF THE KINGDOM has definitely caused some damage to my joy cons
It's caused some damage to my switch and possibly a mirror
That’s why you make good zonai devices so you barley have to move
I’ve had my joy cons for 3 years and I play Fortnite and totk/botw with them and my joycons have never drifted
That's pretty KINGDOM of you
I used a ps4 controller and it somehow got drift in totk so I blame the switch
Someone discovered that the metal bottom of the stick comes unclipped due to having a gap between it and the shell of the Joy Con. Putting a piece of card stock under it fixed the drift in all of the ones he tried it on.
Who is this Nintendo repair god?
@@OwentheDuckyBoi VK's channel, just warning! this is not a permanent repair, as my friend above said the drift is provoked by wearing inside the graphite that detects movement leaving hollow inside the stick causing the drift, the cardboard works making pressure to keep the graphite in place but the stick is gonna keep wearing with the use, buying the gulikit replacement stick is a better option to fix the drift but you gotta know how to replace the stick.
@@josiasndsOr just get a pro controller. It should not be $60, however there are really good 3rd party controllers.
@@Reaktron88 official Nintendo pro controllers still get stick drift, and they are worse than joycons because they are soldered on, not plug and play
@@Jokypond Really?
Well one of the reasons that joy-cons get sick drift is that Dust gets under the faps that the joy-cons use to decide what to do
So you probably just don't put them in dusty areas
sick drift dude
My room is so dusty i have have not got joycon drift i have had it for 3 and a half years
Speaking as someone who used to repair joycons, it's not a dirt or dust issue. It's caused by too much force being applied to the joystick, denting the thin metal plate that makes up the joystick's back.
The amount of controllers i have with drift is crazy😅
Yeah I have had 2 sets of joy cons and 3 Dualsenses all get drift
Now I’m just waiting for my steam deck to get drift too
Just be nicer to your controllers. I have had my Joycons for 1 years now. No problems, whatsoever
@@EdricChang you might want to think about your gaming habits. I had my for 7 years without drifting, and I took perfect care of them
For every person who doesn’t get drift it gose to you
@@AMBallProduction wha- WHY
I would argue that joycon drift is a well known nitntendo switch fact
Crazy that they beat every single court case and proved that
Exactly. Just because one person hasn’t experienced it doesn’t mean thousands of others haven’t
@gollum6ix9ine83 this was months ago lol
Fun fact: Pressing the stick button has nothing to do with stick drift. The contact pads scratch over time and use, specially with aggresive use like using them for Smash Bros, but the button mechanism was designed so pressing the stick doesn't change the pressure on the contact pads whatsoever
As a side fact: My first left joy con started drifting after 2 years only because I started flicking the stick to cancel auto attacks in Xenoblade Chronicles 2. Most people will let go off the stick and let it go back to centrr with all its force. That's what scratches the contact pads more easily and leads to stick drift
@@ddnava96hmm I didn’t know flicking them could cause damage
I remember needing to answer a question in an RPG, and it drifted, it was way to hard to answer
(But hey, you can't blame pressure in games)
I’ve had a Nintendo switch with four joy cons for like four years
Not one of them has stick drift
Got my first Xbox in February this year
It’s a series s
It is already unusable, started getting stick drift last month
The fact my monitor is still 100% intact is a miracle
Edit: my dad dropped a cricket bat on it a couple of months ago I am now using a bigger older better monitor
Man I've had multiple Xbox controls and none have every gotten drift, there are 3 sets of joycons in my house and every single one has drift, i envy you in the joycon aspect not so much in the Xbox aspect
This is proof that Nintendo is better, now we just need Hall effect sticks on the Switch 2
I think you're capping
@@Jordanisokatosu why the hell would I do that doesn’t help me in any way. I kid you not my joy cons have no drift
@ẞooßys yeah but an xbox controller getting stick drift after a month? I've had 2 Xbox one controllers for 4 years now and they both don't have stick drift, but my original pair of joy cons of 6 years are a battered
I never use joycons for Smash Bros. Got a GameCube controller while pre ordering the game.
I blame the Splatoon 2 matchmaking screen
@chunkymonkey7983 It's gotta be the best loading screen of all time.
When I was younger I used to always get joycon drift and now I dont and I think its due to me now wiping my hands after eating greasy foods.
Bruh don’t just wipe. Wash
The fact that “i was younger” is an actual thing people can say now (referring to the switches age) is wild
My joycons started drifting after a chill virtual camping session in BOTW in the final days before TOTK's release. I already had a Hori Split Pad by then but it made me kind of sad.
Wow I’m early
My siblings leave everything upside down, causing drift even on good ps5 controllers and stuff, and covered in disgusting crap. Food, sweat, snot maybe? Making it really annoying to play without cleaning them every single time. I even tried getting my own controller and tablet and mostly my sister ruined them.
For me my joycons drift 3 times and I was playing casually with Super Mario Odyssey, motion games, and indie games heck even Arlo (big Nintendo UA-camr) has this problem but I did found some solutions to fix it and there's 2 ways
1. The loose plate problem, this happens when the plate underneath the analog stick gets loose, to find out add pressure to the center of joycons, if the drifting stop then that means the plate is loose solution: grab a business card and cut it into a small square then open the joycon and put it underneath the analog stick plate then close it up and test it to see it works.
2. Dust inside the plate, the material that joycons uses causes dust to happen not just dust outside in order to fix you will need a can of compress air then open the joycon and spray air in it. This is the hardest part because you will to try to remove dust from inside the plate and opening the plate could be a little dangerous for the analog stick.
If still with drifting problem then call Nintendo for a free fix (I don't know if they still do a free joycons fix) or replace the analog stick with a new analog stick at Amazon.
Other thing that causes joy con drift is precisely the wear of the inner plastic of the joy cons, so if you don't use them, like, to play competitive smash or any fighting game that needs brutal stick combinations, and you just move gently the stick, your likely to never get the stick drift, I also had a pair of joy cons that didn't had drift for years until my mom lend my switch to my cousin when I wasn't at home
I barley tough the joycons and I get drift with in a few years.
Clean your room
Facts. I’ve had joycons for four and a half years and they work perfectly fine.
🧢
Mine still fine 😂
That's right. That's why I buy knock off controllers for anyone to use, even those are $40 a pair and they work quite well though. The $30 corded controllers for others aswel. $80 a pair is to expensive to let otjer people destroy
Same, I’ve never gotten stick drift on any of my controllers.
This is surprising considering I will just stuff my controllers in a bag
The joycon actually drift because the innards of the stick are made of graphite, the same stuff in pencils, and it eventually wears down and becomes prone to miss inputs, including drift.
Literally never had drift in any controller in my entire life. Even Joycons. Either I’m lucky or people are extremely harsh with their controllers. I’d say the second option
0:24 I swear all OG joycons all look like that with the shiny stick XD
Yeah my controllers (including the pro controller) and the back of the switch are all shiny what does this mean?
Brilliant Diamond 💎
Shining Pearl ⚪️
NOT WHEN YOU RUN BUCKO
I got drift on two pro controllers (Xenoblade 2 controller from 2017 and Animal Crossing Power A) from playing Drak Souls so much 💀
I have 2 pairs of joycons, none have drift.
I bought a (knockoff) pro controller and it got drift within like 3 weeks
i've had my switch for like 5 years and all my joycons have horrible drift 😭😭
Only 5 years? I’ve had it for 6 years
I've had mine for the amount of time I've had it, couldn't tell you how l9ng that is though
I got mine on launch day and never had to deal with drift... On Joy Cons.
I DID get drift on a $25 wired Metroid controller with no rumble. Which is probably for the better since it means the nice orange chrome on the sticks doesn't wear off, since I never use it anymore.
I had my joy con since release, but sadly it got diagnosed with stick drift couple of months ago, and I am NOT paying $70 for a new one lol.
“The weight of A thousand suns?”
Linkin Park reference?!
No, just a common expression. But that is a very good album!
Kirby game endings:
I've played fortnite on switch for years and I've never got joycon drift on it, or for any game in that matter. while playing it. The only thing that messes my joycons up is when I switch them and they don't stick into the console and keep sliding off easily.
Using my switch mainly for Minecraft is probably not good for my drifting joy cons
Same thing here cause my brother used to play on his iPad a ton and like a month after he started playing Fortnite on my switch with his friends it suddenly started to drift
Mario Party, Amiibos, etc: 👋😐
I still use third party controllers, I think they’re better in every way
I had it for almost a year now and no signs of drift. Guess you need to wash your hands
Why does the switch's screen turn black with some weird lines?
Simple fix: use a different controller.
The end.
Crawqow
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Bro really used the sound from that one modified Golf acceleration video. Legendary
Wait what is stick drift? I don’t own a Nintendo switch, can someone please educate me on this issue?
Stick drift is when your control stick is in not physically moving but it moves in game if you get what Im saying
3 words:
_Smash_
_Bros._
*_Ultimate_*
Play Splatoon and you’ll see why we have it
If we were putting weifht on it then it would register as clicking the sticks, which in some games you don’t wanna hold it. So you either have a place with no dust in the air or you’re lying
I lightly use my joysticks
Let’s hope the switch 2 fixes this
Stopping kids from saying first
You're not
Minecraft will definitely be the end of my joy-cons i go crazy on minecraft 💀
I’ve had a bunch of Joycons do the drift. And that’s exactly why I use a pro controller for my Switch instead.
He’s right. Lay off the joy sticks, and the joy cons will last a lot longer.
🧢
Mine drifted because they were used in SSBU. After we got them replaced, I made a new rule that the joycon controller can't be used for SSBU anymore. It's no biggie since we have 3 original gamecube controllers and a Wirebird one.
So UA-cam really is the answer.
UA-cam ruined my Switch and Wii U just because I wanted to scroll to the very bottom of the recommended list.
Like it has a very bottom lol
I once got drift playing fortnite but they somehow fixed themselves playing Mario kart
It's kinda weird how old controllers get drift less often than joy cons lol. My GameCube controller doesn't have stick drift at all
I havent gotten a single joy con with drift, and i have 8, while 2/4 of my xbox one/series controllers have gotten drift
I am the 10nt comment
My old buddy.. I'd hear the plastic move, he heled it that hard. and I'm surprised he never cracked a stick off
After about 5 years of having a switch, my joy-cons are only used for labo because of joy-con drift.
BROOOO CLEAN UP THAT JOYSTICK ON THE NEON RED JOYCON THERES FOOD GREASE AND/OR OIL, seriously though, please just take a wet wipe or damp rag/paper towel and wipe the joystick down, it’s disgusting
My Joycons are starting to automatically remove themselves from my Switch whenever I'm playing in handheld, which I do a lot, so now I'm forced to play TEARS OF THE KINGDOM! on my TV! I think Nintendo could have really done better when designing those things, ESPECIALLY because their consoles are more depicted as being for kids! I can't even imagine how fast a three year old would absolutely demolish those Joycons!
If you think drift is caused by some dirt entering the controller, you have no clue what causes drift
ive started out with 2 joy cons got a pro controller later on and now currently have 2 more pairs of joy cons
and my pro controller and first pair have gotten stick drift few times
but all i did was reconnect them and it was fixed
drift has never been a problem for me
I tore my rubber off the r and l sticks. I was a psychopath of doing that now I feel💀
I’ve probably put almost four thousand hours on my Switch, and the right number and R3 buttons on the Joycons were the only thing to fail on my first pair. If anything I’ve been having more issue with drift on my ProbController (though that one controller has been 90% of my gameplay so I’d say I’ve gotten my money’s worth out of it.)
i dont have drift on any of my switch controllers too, so glad to hear anybody with same issue as me :D
This could actually be true. Cuz I’ve had both long lasting and drifting joycons. The long lasting have been treated extremely well and have no signs of damage on any part of the joysticks. Where as my drifting joycons actually have bumps on the bottom of the joysticks
Or they push it and not gently pull it back, they push it and let it go so it jumps back into its position
I've had my Switch for 3 years now, and to this day I do not have stick drift....yet. And I played a ton of Smash Bros.
I do, however, have buttons that are malfunctioning and input spamming so much that I had to disable them. So that's a thing.
I had one of my controller drift one time and I was able to fix it, basically what I found out that dead skins basically falls under the joystick which clogged up the sensor (small metal plates that detects movement) inside the joystick's mechanism, Fixed it with a dash of isopropyl alcohol and was working again!
Moral of the story is that make sure your hands are clean before you use ur Controllers, if your hands aren't clean high chances are that dead cells or microscopic dirt are gonna fall under and will cause drift, That 's for my experience at least.
also...KEEP YOUR HANDS CLEAN. yeah i know it suck for you kids but wash your hands
I have one pair of working Joycons my other 3 pairs all have stick drift, not only that but most of my Nintendo Switch controllers have gotten stick drift after some time, heck my new controller I got for Christmas just got stick drift yesterday. 😢
The pressure thing seems very true since one pair went down in 3 or 4 months till it got stick drift compared to now almost 2 years of no drift 😂
It sucks since shooter games like Fortnite or Overwatch or other games that just use the binds to the max
It sucks to have Sprint and Crouch/Slide by default on the sticks
Yes you do
I've got years of experience in electronics repair and have fixed more joycons than I care to count. Joycon drift doesn't actually have anything to do with dirt getting into the controller. It's actually down to the thin metal plate that makes up the back of the joystick being dented by excessive force being used on the controller. When the plate becomes deformed, it takes the tension off internals of the joystick, allowing them to shift around, causing drift.
I had major stick drift for my old joycons, after i got new one, i learnt that i really shouldnt go THAT rough on my joycons while just walking around in inkopolis
I agree. My joy-con sticks got the rubber outline off on the L stick, all rubber on the R stick, the sensors broken on the R stick, the l and r buttons breaking and they still don't have drift.
Yea at this point im convinced stick drift on ps controllers and switch joycons are user error. Ive never ever had stick drift. Broken triggers, yea, a couple of times, but that was my fault, i was pushing them too hard, so i stopped and haven't had a broken one since
Am i the only one who never got stick drift? I bought my switch 2 years agonand my ps4 conroller got a huge stick drift before my switch
I’ve had the same two pairs of joycon for about 5 years now with zero issues ever. And Ive put about 1000 hours a year into them. 😂
I don't exactly have the drift issue, rather, when I move the joystick up, it doesn't really register that I moved it up. All other directions are fine, just that one.
no...the reason why it drifts is mainly a garbage design flaw. Because overtime, the metal lid of the analog stick underneath loosens up over time due to wear and use. Because of that, the metal prongs inside the analog stick causes friction between that and the sensors which is made of graphite iirc. Because of that the graphite debris caused by the friction makes the sensors harder to read your inputs.
The best way to prevent this from being an ongoing issue is to put a cardboard square under the analog stick after doing a teardown of the joycon (which somehow pushes the graphite away from the sensors and tightens the metal lid for good). Either that or squirting compressed air into the analog stick. Or you could just make the joycon vibrate to remove the dust if its not that bad.
My switch from 2017 I only change 1 time with small drift issue but i always clean it with alcohol and cotton buds to solve this drift issue.
Ever since my mother gave me ger system Day 1 the joycons drifted Day 2-Now Absolutely no drift???
Some games require more frequent/intense pressing the left stick like a button. People who play those games likely have a higher chance of stick drift.
Nintendo uses cheap material for the joystick on the joy-cons so especially stick drift which is annoying no wonder why people use a pro controller and save the for the little kids but make sure they just don’t absolutely destroy them.
If you experience drift, definitely try to recalibrate your joysticks first - before sending them in or buying new ones. It doesn't always work, but in my case it did
The sticks are made to be clicked in.
I didn’t start getting joy Con drift on my controllers until I heard about Joy con drift (which was in 2022)
See I'm used to playing hard! 😂 Used to playing arcade games 🕹 so these controls where you need to be super gentle is hard to switch your play style if thats what your used too. I suspect it's the same for many others as well.
I don't know why everyone complaints about this with Nintendo when it literally happens to every controller regardless of brand😂
sadly the only fix that permanently works is replacing the sticks. I haven’t had any issues with my joycons since i did that :D
I mean mine don't have any issues, but I barely ever play with them. Usually I use my pro controller, even undocked
i habe my launch day switch still. the sticks dont gave drift, but thats because i never use them. in fact, the only thing i even use ky switcu for is dumping my own roms for an emulator so i dont have to look at the booty cheeks graohics of the switch, and can use controllers than dont leave my hands cramped after 2 seconds of use
I have two xbjox 360 controllers and they dont have any drift and yeha i guess maybe youre right
running in the doom 3 hell areas and boss fights (which disables stamina allowing you to run for as long as you want, but at the price of disabling toggle sprint) will get my joycons destroyed
In 2017, when I bought my switch my left joycon drift after 5 days..
Not true my joycons have drift because my cousen apparently just can't keep a hold of those joycons and just keeps letting them fall
I never got drift in the two pairs I've own, but I totally recked the blue joycon by dropping it from a counter