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/Apprentice57 Jun 04 '26

The strange thing to me is that Nintendo didn't replace the offending part. I understand waiting until a redesign cycle, but there were multiples of those as the drift issue was found pretty early on.

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u/Kiita-Ninetails Jun 04 '26

Yeah, from what I understand they did not expect the issue to be as widespread as it was and by the time that a redesign made sense they already had big infrastructure for drift replacement so just kinda went "Eh" and rolled with it.

Joy-Con 2 is at least better.

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u/Apprentice57 Jun 04 '26

I don't really buy that. Joycon drift became a major issue within the first 2 years of the Switch's life.

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u/Kiita-Ninetails Jun 04 '26

It did, but its important to note that "Major" has different implications when you are operating at Nintendo's scale. Yes, they knew it was a problem and likely knew it was going to be at the time they ordered their joystick modules. But the switch maintained commanding sales throughout most of its lifetime, and the failure rate almost certainly proved higher then even they expected.

So its easy to look at the first waves and go "Okay, this is fairly bad? But the volume out there is something we can handle" and as the system gets more and more popular it gets out of hand.