{"id":625551,"date":"2026-03-26T04:14:40","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T04:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/two-in-five-switch-joy-cons-affected-by-drift-says-uk-consumer-watchdog-report"},"modified":"2026-03-26T04:14:40","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T04:14:40","slug":"two-in-five-switch-joy-cons-affected-by-drift-says-uk-consumer-watchdog-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/two-in-five-switch-joy-cons-affected-by-drift-says-uk-consumer-watchdog-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Two in five Switch Joy-Cons affected by drift says UK consumer watchdog report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/two-in-five-switch-joy-cons-affected-by-drift-says-uk-consumer-watchdog-report.jpg\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>\nA new report by UK consumer watchdog Which? has claimed two in five Joy-Con controllers from the original version of the Switch are affected by persistent drift.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSwitch has faced widespread complaints around Joy-Con controller drift since its launch in 2017, leading to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/nintendo-faces-switch-joy-con-drift-class-action-lawsuit\">class action lawsuits<\/a>, and even <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/after-25k-complaints-eu-calls-for-investigation-into-nintendo-switch-joy-con-drift\">EU calls for an investigation<\/a> into the issue after it received more than 25,000 complaints from numerous countries. Reports were significant enough that Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/nintendo-president-apologises-for-switch-joy-con-drift\">apologised<\/a> for the issue in 2020, which it&#8217;s since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/nintendo-says-it-has-improved-joy-con-analogue-sticks-but-wear-is-unavoidable\">claimed to have &#8220;improved&#8221;<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nMore recently, a Kotaku report claimed Nintendo of America <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/nintendo-us-reportedly-received-thousands-of-faulty-joy-cons-each-week-at-height-of-drift-issues\">recieved &#8220;thousands&#8221; of faulty Joy-Cons<\/a> each week at height of drift issues, and now UK consumer watchdog Which? has shared its own findings into the severity of the problem, claiming two in five (40 percent) of Joy-Con controllers from the original Switch are affected.\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/two-in-five-switch-joy-cons-affected-by-drift-says-uk-consumer-watchdog-report\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/two-in-five-switch-joy-cons-affected-by-drift-says-uk-consumer-watchdog-report\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new report by UK consumer watchdog Which? has claimed two in five Joy-Con controllers from the original version of the Switch are affected by persistent drift. Switch has faced widespread complaints around Joy-Con controller drift since its launch in 2017, leading to class action lawsuits, and even EU calls for an investigation into the issue after it received more than 25,000 complaints from numerous countries. Reports were significant enough that Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa apologised for the issue in 2020, which it&#8217;s since claimed to have &#8220;improved&#8221;. More recently, a Kotaku report claimed Nintendo of America recieved &#8220;thousands&#8221; of faulty Joy-Cons each week at height of drift issues, and now UK consumer watchdog Which? has shared its own findings into the severity of the&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/two-in-five-switch-joy-cons-affected-by-drift-says-uk-consumer-watchdog-report\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":625552,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[230],"tags":[21],"class_list":["post-625551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eurogamer","tag-nintendo-switch"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Two in five Switch Joy-Cons affected by drift says UK consumer watchdog report | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A new report by UK consumer watchdog Which? 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