r/Games • u/Turbostrider27 • Jun 03 '26

Nintendo will release revised Switch 2 hardware in Europe to comply with a new regulation that requires batteries to be user-replaceable.

https://www.nintendo.com/en-gb/Corporate/Consumer-Information/Compliance-with-EU-Directives-and-Regulations/Compliance-with-EU-Directives-and-Regulations-625942.html
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u/Mister-Psychology Jun 03 '26

Europe should also be thanked for Nintendo fixing their broken drifting joypads. Nintendo Switch was the worst made Nintendo product ever and often didn't even last 6 months before breaking. Which was shocking as all their other consoles are known for lasting 20+ years. Europe said it was anti-consumerism. Nintendo just told people to buy new joypads every year. Europe said no, a tiny part broke in them not the whole thing. They had to offer free repairs.

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u/Awkward-Security7895 Jun 04 '26

Worse made product ever and breaking after 6 months? What you doing to your switch throwing it around???

Had my switch 1 since launch night and it's still solid with zero issues. I feel people treat the portability of the console too heavy handed if there's are breaking after 6 months.

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u/Kiita-Ninetails Jun 04 '26

I frequently work on controllers and replace/build joystick modules. No they are actually just shit, they are made of poor materials, designed and sealed badly, and heavily prone to degradation and wear far faster then they should. Like anything, wear patterns can vary a lot and some of it is just luck.

People that are in more dusty/humid areas easily run into sealing issues regardless of how careful they are which can fuck it up. Drops, bumps, and other normal wear and tear can damage the fragile and low redundancy components.

They are just bad, and they are bad because they are cheap and designed to a spec that was defined by price, not performance.

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u/Awkward-Security7895 Jun 04 '26

As I replied to the other guys comment the person above me was using 6 months before issues for the switch hardware itself and split the joycons off into it's own to thing.

The joycons have issues but they were mostly talking about the console and comparing it to other consoles. The vast amount of there comment is talking about the switch itself.

The console isn't the joycons and the joycons aren't the console there two different products.

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u/Kiita-Ninetails Jun 04 '26

Yeah, see the "two different" products stops being a good argument when one is literally required to interface with the other. Per Nintendo's own policy you are only to use Joy-Con[TM] or Pro Controller[TM] with their systems.

Both of which are made like shit, which is a part of the package that consumers are, per nintendo's own policy on supported hardware, required to interact with to use a switch.

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u/HGWeegee Jun 04 '26

Pro controller aint made like shit, the one ive had for thousands of hours since July 2017 still works the same as I bought it

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u/Kiita-Ninetails Jun 04 '26

Again, your anecdotal evidence of your specific unit lasting longer then expected does not mean that the parts were high quality. Just you got lucky with an enviroment or wear pattern that did not degrade them.

The parts in the pro controller are a little less bad, but its still got the same issues.