TapTechNews May 14th news, throughout the entire lifecycle of Nintendo Switch, the most common comment we often hear about the Joy-Con controller is not how good it is, but the joystick drift issue.
GameFile's Stephen Totilo found that the two Nintendo Switch 'Joy-Con drift' class action lawsuits brought up by Diaz and Carbajal have now been dismissed, meaning that the five-year effort of players to sue Nintendo for the Joy-Con drift issue has ultimately failed.
It is worth noting that there is actually a third class action lawsuit: the Sanchez v. Nintendo case, but it was dismissed as early as 2022, successfully maintaining Nintendo's title as the 'strongest legal department in the Eastern Hemisphere'.
TapTechNews investigation found that Nintendo once apologized in 2020 for the Joy-Con drift issue and provided free repair services to players in North America, Europe, and other regions, but they opposed any lawsuits. Nintendo stated that players who filed lawsuits are bound by the Switch user agreement and must resolve issues through private arbitration, rather than class action lawsuits.
It is worth noting that Nintendo President Shuntaro Furukawa announced a few days ago that news of the successor to the Switch will be announced 'within this fiscal year', and there were rumors that the new console may be equipped with magnetic Joy-Con controllers.
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