{"id":88328,"date":"2025-09-11T04:55:43","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T04:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/article.php?article_id=2134051"},"modified":"2025-09-11T04:55:43","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T04:55:43","slug":"after-25k-complaints-eu-calls-for-investigation-into-nintendo-switch-joy-con-drift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/after-25k-complaints-eu-calls-for-investigation-into-nintendo-switch-joy-con-drift\/","title":{"rendered":"After 25k complaints, EU calls for investigation into Nintendo Switch Joy-Con drift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/after-25k-complaints-eu-calls-for-investigation-into-nintendo-switch-joy-con-drift.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The European Consumer Organisation (BEUC), the EU&#8217;s joint consumer programme, has called for a Europe-wide investigation into Nintendo Switch Joy-Con drift after receiving more than 25,000 complaints from numerous countries. <\/p>\n<p>The group has now submitted its own complaints to the European Commission and national consumer protection authorities around Europe, based on its rules surrounding &#8220;premature obsolescence and misleading omissions of key consumer information on the basis of the EU&#8217;s Unfair Commercial Practices Directive&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>In the vast majority of cases &#8211; 88 per cent &#8211; Nintendo Switch owners reported issues with their Joy-Con controllers within the first two years of use, the BEUC said. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2021-01-27-after-25k-complaints-eu-calls-for-investigation-into-nintendo-switch-joy-con-drift\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2021-01-27-after-25k-complaints-eu-calls-for-investigation-into-nintendo-switch-joy-con-drift\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Consumer Organisation (BEUC), the EU&#8217;s joint consumer programme, has called for a Europe-wide investigation into Nintendo Switch Joy-Con drift after receiving more than 25,000 complaints from numerous countries. 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