Nintendo: The Joy-Con Drift lawsuit has finally made its way, and it’s not in favor of the consumer…

Game news Nintendo: The Joy-Con Drift lawsuit has finally made its way, and it’s not in favor of the consumer…

The Joy-Con Drift Wound

Before we get to the heart of the matter, what is the Joy-Con Drift? This is an issue that affects most Joy-Con and Nintendo Switch controllers. After several hours of use the Joy-Con joysticks suddenly seem to move by themselves,

which can quickly become very limiting, especially if you’re playing a game that requires precision. A player who has this problem can therefore see his character or his viewfinder in an FPS movement by himself.

To solve this more than recurring problem, Nintendo quickly implemented several options, including an insurance service dedicated to this problem. Unfortunately, the latter, exclusive to Japan, is a paid service that requires about 15 dollars per year to access.

Therefore, given that Nintendo is not responding quickly enough to help players, several consumer protection groups have quickly come forward. Despite this, Nintendo continues to claim that this is normal wear and tear (compared to 2 out of 5 broken Joy-Cons in the UK).

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Nintendo is stronger than you

Today we learn that Nintendo has won once again, unlike consumers who still have to deal with faulty Joy-Cons.

In fact, last year two mothers of young children decided to sue Nintendo of America over the famous Joy-Con Drift. Unfortunately, Nintendo covered its back by forcing players to accept the Terms of Service (EULA) before booting the machine; this EULA prohibits legal action.

The affair could have ended there, but the lawyers for the two women stated that the children were too young to voluntarily accept this contract. Despite everything, a federal judge in California ruled in favor of Nintendo last November. For the judge, the children cannot be the real owners of the machines since it is the parents who bought them. In other words, the Joy-Con drift issue was never discussed and matters remained at a standstill.

As a reminder, Shuntaro Furukawa, Nintendo’s president, did speak up in late 2021 to apologize and confirm that the company is still working and always improving these controllers.

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