Will the drift switch suffer in joy? Nintendo does not offer the final answer

A Nintendo Switch 2 Yesterday there was an official presentation in which not only its main functions and games were discovered, but also the release date and price. Nevertheless, there is a doubt to which the Japanese corporation did not give the final answer: will there be a new Joy with About the drift that influenced the original elements of control of the switch?

Among the so many rumors that have been distributed recently, it was mentioned that Nintendo was going to introduce the levers of the hall effect in The Joy-Switch 2. Thus, this will eliminate the drift and put the end of the player’s main care. But during the official announcement, there was no reference time on this issue, and the company gave Dodge answers to consultations on this issue.

EuroGAMER He points to Tetsuya Sasaki, the leader of the Nintendo Switch 2 hardware design, answered the question of how Joy-Con improved to avoid drift during an event with developers. The above did not give specific details about the changes applied to management, but emphasized that they were developed from zero for optimized experience.

“How they will observe and feel, the new Joy-Con 2 management elements for Nintendo Switch 2 were really developed from scratch to have more and more smooth movement,” Sasaki said.

VGCMeanwhile, he asked Nintendo whether he took measures so that the Joy-Con drift did not happen again in Switch 2. The company’s response was also not final, although he was mentioned Optimization of the durability of leversThe field “Joy-Con 2 control sticks were processed, improving areas such as durability,” said the representative of the Japanese company.

It is still not clear whether the Joy-Con of the Nintendo Switch 2 will suffer from the drift

The Joy-Con drift is one of the most difficult problems with which Nintendo had to be solved since the debut of Switch 2 in 2017. For example, in Europe, the Asian company received demand from a group of consumers, which forced that in 2023 it would announce that it would offer free repairs to all injured users of the European economic space, the United Kingdom and Schweitzer, even if they are not covered in countries.

The official Nintendo Switch 2 website also offers detailed information about the technical characteristics of the updated Joy-Con. On the levers, this indicates that they More and more convenientAnd this is softer and emit less noise than the original console.

Thus, everything indicates that there is no other choice but to wait until the Nintendo Switch 2 will appear in the hands of the players to measure their durability. It is likely that as soon as it is available on the market, video Gaps This analyzes in detail the characteristics of the device and processed levers.