PCMag editors select and review products independently. If you buy through affiliate links, we may earn commissions, which help support our testing. Nintendo says the Switch 2's Joy-Con controllers ...

Anyone who owns a Nintendo Switch will know about Joy-Con stick drift. It’s when the Joy-Con Control Sticks stop responding correctly, or suffer from "drifting." Complaints about Joy-Con drift were so ...

A user teardown of the Nintendo Switch 2 Joy Cons revealed similar stick components. The Switch 1 Joy Cons have been plagued with drift problems for years. Other changes to the Joy Con design may ...

TL;DR: Nintendo Switch users have long faced Joy-Con stick drift issues, leading to lawsuits and free repairs. The upcoming Switch 2 Joy-Con will not use Hall Effect sticks, which are less prone to ...

A new analysis from a UK-based consumer rights group shows the likely cause of drift, and unsurprisingly, it's a design defect. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a new ...

The Switch Lite is suffering from exactly the same JoyCon problems that the Switch does -- except this time, they're attached to the unit. This is unacceptable. Share on Facebook (opens in a new ...

Joy-Con Drift Will Probably Still Be a Problem on Nintendo's Switch 2 Two separate teardowns warn gamers to expect controller-drift problems to persist, with iFixit explaining that the Joy-Con 2 ...