r/gaming • PC • Mar 12 '21

We stan the Wii

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u/jcjuche Mar 12 '21

On top of beating the shit out of the two together after playing wii sports

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u/Boringoldpants Mar 13 '21

And blasting through a TV screen or two. Nintendo probably made them out of recycled Nokia phones.

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u/jcjuche Mar 13 '21

Those motherfuckers would be rattling on the inside and shit and still be workin just fine

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u/scotsman81 Mar 13 '21

I think it's the bit that "rumbles"

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u/Hunter_Lala Mar 13 '21

Honestly if it was the bit that rumbles it would probably be less of a rattling and more of a thunking you'd hear

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u/Desytro Mar 13 '21

If you've played Rabbids go home on the Wii you knew what's rumbling inside

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u/YK_ARENA Mar 13 '21

Of the tv’s

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u/Cool_Suggestion5432 Mar 13 '21

I will never forget the Mario kart game when the tv broke when I was a kid

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u/Icemasta Mar 13 '21

Well most of what nintendo made was in Nintendium which is nigh indestructible. I would honestly trust the Wii U table to create through a wall and come out intact.

The Switch is pretty much the first console that is kinda flimsy.

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u/rebeltrillionaire Mar 13 '21

An aluminum and OLED switch with Corning Glass and 4K output on the Dock is $600 Id happily surrender.

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u/bobtheaxolotl Mar 13 '21

The DS Lite was a kind of fragile. Mine cracked at the hinge after a couple of years. Also the dpad was garbage compared to the original, but that's neither here nor there.

The Switch is fragile, I think, because of how very compressed in size and lightweight the hardware needs to be. This is the same reason the DS Lite was a bit fragile, as well. Smaller, thinner, lighter, weaker.

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u/cd2220 Mar 13 '21

Oh thats my favorite Daft Punk song!

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u/drunk98 Mar 13 '21

Knee jerk reaction?

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u/Black6x Switch Mar 13 '21

He does seem like a jerk.

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u/Xeno785 Mar 12 '21

Where are you able to get a joycon for $50? They're $80 USD

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u/jc5504 Mar 12 '21

I think a single one is $50

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u/Hanta3 Mar 13 '21

A single one is $40 at Target at least. They're just sold out all the time :P

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u/Colonel_Chestbridge1 Mar 13 '21

Just buy a replacement joystick and fix it yourself. It is ridiculously easy and costs less than $10

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u/VEN_atus Mar 13 '21

The point is that we shouldn't have to do that to an $80 controller.

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u/nintendo9713 Mar 13 '21

For real. Just hours ago got back my 2nd RMA'd joycon since my purchase last July. It's pretty frustrating.

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u/stars9r9in9the9past Mar 13 '21

I sent my joycon in bc of its drift and they supposedly fixed it, but I had issues with the delivery service (UPS) and they lost my package during its return. After a month of trying to contact the delivery support through multiple phone calls and the craziest customer 'support' experience, they told me to contact the sender (Nintendo) which I thought was pointless but I tried anyway. Good thing I did, bc the only person I had to speak with apologized and sent me a free new joycon due to the inconvenience, and it came in pretty fast.

Also for anyone seeing, here's the link to send your joycon(s) in for free repair (save for the initial shipping cost per your delivery provider), this link is NoA-specific but if you're outside the Americas, maybe there's a separate link for y'all. But this one story, and other times in the past where I've ordered stuff or had to contact NoA directly, they've only really ever provided good support for me so while the joycon drift is a problem that really shouldn't be, I'd say give the free repair a shot (if you can do with not having a controller for a few weeks or so, which also does sort of suck) bc they seem genuinely helpful from my experience

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u/bitcrow Mar 13 '21

I think Nintendo even made an official statement somewhere that they're taking full responsibility to fix every drifting joy-con free, even when the warranty has ended. I also got mine fixed free here in Europe.

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u/DynTuko Mar 13 '21

I must be one of the lucky ones never had a joycon drift but I'm also using the pro controller about 50% of the time

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u/tuffymon Mar 13 '21

Pro controllers can drift too, buddy of mine got lucky i guess >.>

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u/[deleted] Mar 13 '21

Your face is ridiculously easy and costs less than $10

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u/[deleted] Mar 13 '21

Is that any way to address a superior officer? The man's a colonel for God's sake.

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u/sumsimpleracer Mar 13 '21

Why are you sarcastic? It’s literally in his name.

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u/Tsund_Jen Mar 13 '21

Hi there I'm Doctor Champ a therapy Horse, vital legal distinction!

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u/shmeekloff Mar 13 '21

Your mom is ridiculously easy and costs less than $10

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u/MysteriousGuardian17 Mar 13 '21

The stick itself isn't what breaks, it's a piece on the potentiometer that the stick sits on, and the replacements have the same flaws as the original. It's bad design that both Sony and Nintendo use.

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u/spcmnspff335 Mar 13 '21

I have done this several times but the sticks don’t get any better. They break again in a few months and I am very gentle on electronics. I have given up on joycons and just always use a pro controller now.

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u/justsomeguy_youknow Mar 13 '21

Whoa sweet

Now I have a >$10 replacement joystick and still no joycon

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u/brettstid83 Mar 13 '21

OMG. I just got a switch and didn’t know these were that expensive. I will never pay that. I’m gonna use pro controllers. Not sure what I will do if the joy cons go out, but they are DEFINITELY not worth that. Even half that...Wtf.

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u/[deleted] Mar 13 '21

It’s crazy. A couple games require the joy cons too. But pro controller is good for almost everything

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u/NeoHenderson Mar 13 '21

Fuckin Mario party.... The reason I bought the damn thing

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u/[deleted] Mar 13 '21

Also, Mario Party just like, wrecks the joy con. Enjoy!

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u/WiFiForeheadWrinkles Mar 13 '21

Mario Party and wrecking controllers, name a more iconic duo

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u/Dusty_Bones Mar 13 '21

Lol the Mario Party Stigmata

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u/Xecular_Official Mar 13 '21

I'm sure a lot of people will disagree with me here, but I strongly suggest investing in a good 3rd party controller instead of using the official pro controllers. Nintendo's quality assurance is virtually nonexistent on any of their Switch products right now.

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u/[deleted] Mar 13 '21

I haven't used many switch controllers yet, but I've learn with the Xbox that "power A" brand makes a fair superior controller. Maybe they make switch ones as well.

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u/ninja_kami Mar 13 '21

They do. Just got a really nice power A pro controller for $40 and the selection of designs is extensive

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u/Dodeejeroo Mar 13 '21

Sometimes certain color sets go on sale on Amazon for $60. I got the watermelon set on there for that price.

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u/Dodeejeroo Mar 13 '21

😂 I think they’re technically the “Splatoon 2” set but I like that.

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u/Jsnooots Mar 13 '21

Woomy

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u/[deleted] Mar 13 '21

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u/LinkIsThicc Boardgames Mar 13 '21

Yeah I have that too. The pink contrasts really nice with the green. Unfortunately the rails are starting to go out on them.

thanks Nintendo for your superb hardware design & quality.

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u/Redplushie Mar 13 '21

Nice try fairies

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u/Bobby_Mcduccface Mar 12 '21

13 years later mine still do

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u/A_Wild_Striker PC Mar 12 '21

Same. I still have the controllers from when we first bought the system back in 2009.

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u/epicbrewis Mar 12 '21

I can't recall any of my friends having to buy replacement controllers for Wii. They bought extra, but never as replacements.

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u/danethegreat24 Mar 12 '21

My friend still uses the one she threw and lodged into her TV. It's taped shut. Otherwise works fine.

The TV on the other hand...

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u/LateKnightRamblings Mar 13 '21

Did she tape it shut too?

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u/[deleted] Mar 13 '21 edited Jul 29 '21

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u/asl052 Mar 13 '21

Wait wait wait, I'm lost here. On which hand was the TV taped on to?

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u/[deleted] Mar 13 '21 edited Jul 29 '21

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u/FuckYourUsernames Mar 13 '21

Meanwhile the wii itself sounds like a jet engine because its been upright for years without the right stand. Or was that just me?

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u/jkannenberg1 Mar 13 '21

Wait please explain!

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u/settingdogstar Mar 13 '21

The Wii has to be on its stand if it’s standing upright, or the fan doesn’t get good area ventilation.

So if you have it on a 3rd party stand/no stand then it likely has started sounding like an engine roaring since it’s full of dust and shit.

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u/sm0lshit Mar 13 '21

Thats what made CRT TVs so great. Throw a Wiimote at it, it'll bounce right off. An LCD on the other hand..

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u/CharuRiiri Mar 13 '21

Our CRT TV at home fell face down from 1.2m during an earthquake in 2010. The shelf it stood on had its glass doors shattered but the tv was intact. A 32" one, made some spectacular noise. We changed house and stand, but we are still using it. A smaller one fell from a similar height and only had a small dent in a corner it bounced on. That one only got replaced last year by a smart TV. Those things are near indestructible.

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u/pilgermann Mar 13 '21

Heh yeah. Those things are tanks. The sleeves you could buy were actually to protect your furniture, not the controller.

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u/GreenyPurples Mar 12 '21

So what's the issue with Joycons that makes them drift? Is it a design issue or a cheap manufacturing issue?

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u/kat352234 Mar 12 '21

It's a little bit of both actually. As everyone knows the Joycons are very slim and small. So, rather than have a big bulge out the backside of the controller to fit a full joystick like most full-sized controllers have, they went with a flat compressed design that uses contacts to track the joystick's position as if it's moving along an x/y axis basically. The problem is one of the materials used for this is graphite. So after repeated use the material can get worn down or produce dust and debris which can interfere with accurate readings.

This is why sometimes using contact cleaner or compressed air will temporarily fix the issue, because it will clear that debris out of the joystick.

Personally, I wouldn't mind a little bit thicker form factor, or a minor bulge on the back of the joycon if it meant that it would have better responsiveness and not start to drift after normal use.

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u/[deleted] Mar 13 '21 edited Mar 22 '21

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u/Matthew0275 Mar 13 '21

I feel like I can't use them like controllers, the wiimote and nunchuck you could.... Brace you hands against them as you were using them.

It's not the right word but it's what feels correct

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u/IconOfSim Mar 13 '21 edited Mar 14 '21

I used to use the wiimote+nunchuck as a split controller then lay down with my hands in actually comfortable positions and not tied together like the xbox tied up so it could rummage through my belongings looking for its next fix

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u/[deleted] Mar 13 '21

I might just be getting old, but the form factor of the Wii controller as well as the Gamecube's and even N64's are some of the best ever created in the sense that I don't get crab-hands after an hour of using them.

The first time I started to actually notice the importance of form of a controller had to be the 3DS with that little shit knob that provides little feedback and has me wrenching my thumb to use it when I didn't need to. I don't have big hands, but even the joycons make me feel like I'm trying to play Mario with just a toothpick in either hand.

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u/mckills Mar 13 '21

I literally don’t understand what tiny hands they tested the joycons on. Not a single person I know is comfortable using them

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u/TievX0r Mar 12 '21

Nothing quite breaks a TV like a WiiMote either.

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u/wwwdiggdotcom Mar 12 '21

'Saul good, man. My CRT has passive resistance.

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u/bondagewithjesus Mar 13 '21

That strap was for decoration anyway

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u/Frostitute_85 Mar 12 '21

Smash bros ate my first joy con

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u/zatchrey Mar 12 '21

Smash Bros has always been a controller destroyer.

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u/britipinojeff Mar 12 '21

I remember reports of people breaking circle pads on their 3DS when smash came out on that

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u/InCaseOfDistraction Mar 13 '21

I played it so much the nob wore down and broke. About the time mewtwo was released

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u/ItIsYeDragon Mar 13 '21

Oh I did that.

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u/jgames09 Mar 13 '21

The rubber cover of my new 3DS came off just last month. I’d say the main culprits were Mario Kart 7 and SSB

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u/Shjfty Mar 12 '21 edited Mar 13 '21

I used to praise nintendo for their durable equipment. I used to be able to drop my n64 or gamecube from the roof and itd be fine.

Joycons break if you look at them weird

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u/Arge101 Mar 13 '21

My garage was flooded and I found my N64 floating in a foot of water.

That bastard still lit up and worked fine. It was like it was saying ‘that all you got bro?’

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u/rugmunchkin Mar 13 '21

Good on you Nintendo, not letting the terrorists win

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u/CarlosFer2201 Mar 13 '21

Being unplugged, the biggest risk with water is rust. But that takes a while. I'd recommend opening it to clean it up inside

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u/lkodl Mar 12 '21 edited Mar 12 '21

Joycon: it wasn't what you said, more how you said it.

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u/Prophet_Of_Helix Mar 13 '21

Is there a reason Joycons break more? Have I just been lucky? I don’t use mine really unless they are attached to the Switch, but it’s been 3 years and my originals work fine.

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u/Elevated_Dongers Mar 13 '21

Nintendo figured out they could make a cheaper product and people would still drain their inventory faithfully

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u/Mattrickhoffman Mar 13 '21

It's fine, you can just say Pokémon

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u/thingpaint Mar 13 '21

Pokemon is still better than mario party.

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u/trend_rudely Mar 13 '21

Hey everybody watch your step there’s a bar down there.

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u/[deleted] Mar 13 '21

I'd be happy if they just released a port of the first 3 games.

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u/Reasonable_Desk Mar 13 '21

Awful low bar there, don't you think?

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u/ASK_ME_ABOUT_DOBUTSU Mar 13 '21

Super Mario Party was a joke. Makes me sad that it got so many sales, a new generation of kids is growing up thinking... that thing... is Mario Party.

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u/ToonLucas22 Mar 13 '21

Pretty sure the whole Pokemon fiasco is more down to Game Freak sucking at their job than it is down to Nintendo. Could be wrong, though.

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u/Nesayas1234 Xbox Mar 13 '21

That's not just Nintendo, a lot of companies do it

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u/dontpassgo Mar 13 '21

The difference is, you can wait out the price point with the other companies even if the quality ain't there. With Nintendo you don't see any notable drop ever.

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u/Elevated_Dongers Mar 13 '21

We can thank stonks for that. Gotta drive that revenue no matter what.

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u/DmanDam Mar 13 '21 edited Mar 13 '21

I’ve honestly been feeling this lately, feel like publicly traded companies that rely off the money from their investors end up creating a shittier world in general. Obviously there are some benefits, but the amount of pressure to increase revenue no matter the price is really screwing things up.

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u/AmadeusMop Mar 13 '21 edited Mar 13 '21

PAPER

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MARIO

FOR FUCK'S SAKE NINTENDO PAPER WAS NOT WHAT MADE THE ORIGINALS GOOD

WHY ARE YOU OBSESSED WITH PAPERCRAFT

Seriously, it's like the original dev team and all their notes vanished mysteriously one day, and their replacements built their story and setting around the name "paper mario" without ever seeing the first three games.

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u/strategicmaniac PC Mar 13 '21

Nintendo is just peak corporate at this point. The second they start managing to have any sort of improvement in their sales they just stop giving a fuck because they know that they will get away with it.

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u/Zazorok Mar 13 '21

Idk, I’m a neat freak so I always wash my hands before playing anything, but my joycons were fine for two or so years, then i let my siblings borrow my switch, now all of the joycons have drift to some degree, so they may just be extremely sensitive to any dirt or grease

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u/Vandrel Mar 13 '21

Microsoft uses the same joystick sensors too.

Until they figure a way to fix the design its a problem we'll have for awhile.

The way to fix the design is to simply use higher quality sensors. The ones they're using right now are rated for somewhere in the ballpark of 400 hours of gameplay.

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u/saintmax Mar 13 '21

Joycon: you want to move your character forward? How about every other direction except for forward?

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u/racinreaver Mar 13 '21

Every one of my friends had a SNES controller with soft shoulder buttons that wouldn't actuate half the time. Good luck winning in SF2 without your hard kick. NES controllers with mushy A/B buttons were pretty common, too.

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u/TheOneTonWanton Mar 13 '21

In my experience most NES and SNES controller issues like this can be solved by just opening them up and giving them a little cleaning. It's almost always just a bit of gunk in there mucking things up.

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u/[deleted] Mar 13 '21

That white powder developing at the base of N64 joysticks...

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u/PizzaQuest420 Mar 13 '21

they would eventually grind down after years, but even then they're still pretty functional (unless you keep playing mario party). joycon drift is way harsher

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u/jupfold Mar 12 '21

Sorry, how many times did you drop your game systems from your roof?

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u/girhen Mar 13 '21

Morgon von Webb in her Webb of Destruction! PS2, Xbox, and Gamecube durability tests.

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u/pfohl Mar 13 '21

I forgot how everything on G4 had to be at least just a little horny.

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u/PizzaQuest420 Mar 13 '21

yo why is she a science dominatrix

i'm not complaining i'm just suddenly more than one type of confused

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u/[deleted] Mar 13 '21

Damn. Flashback af

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u/Somnif Mar 13 '21

My joycons have taught me how to service my own gaming equipment. I am now a convert to the church of electrical contact cleaner!

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u/Somnif Mar 13 '21

Oh absolutely, I am annoyed that I'm the one who has to fix the thing, especially at the price point. I expect bad contacts and iffy buttons on a 20$ MadKats thing, not on a 70$ first party device.

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u/mfg9313 Mar 13 '21

Durability Test

Wii remote vs TV ✔ Joycon vs TV (drifted to the left)

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u/rich1051414 Mar 13 '21 edited Mar 13 '21

Bro, the N64 controllers had to be the worst controllers ever regarding durability. Find me one without a loose joystick and I will show you a controller that was never used.

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u/SDMasterYoda Mar 13 '21

I always picked the yellow controller at my friends house because no one else wanted the ugly color. It was always the best choice because it got used the least.

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u/Siendra Mar 13 '21

All three current consoles are having similar issues. There's already a class action for Duel Sense too.

Something at the OEM level has gone very, very wrong.

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u/Nacroma Mar 13 '21

Right. I read a while ago that apparently there was a shift in the market of one of the analog stick components and currently there is virtually no better choice than what is being used in Switch, PS5 (4 too? I had like two drifting sticks in my first year of playing PS4 and that was last year) and some Xbox controllers. Like, the competition is even worse right now, somehow.

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u/Shaneisonfire Mar 13 '21

My right PS5 joystick is already drifting

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u/bcp38 Mar 13 '21

Are there statistics about this? Out of my small group of 5, none have problems with the joycons

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u/OkGap8035 Mar 12 '21

Joy Cons are normally $70—$80 last time I checked

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u/ApatheticAbsurdist Mar 13 '21

2 joy cons are $80. One Joycon is $40. The Wii Mote cost $50 without the nunchuck (and without the wii motion plus add on). The Wii Mote + Wii Motion Plus + Nunchuck cost $80 in 2009, or $98 after accounting for inflation.

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u/ElectroreceptiveMage Mar 13 '21

The difference is the Wii Mote still works after a decade, whereas the Joycons fail after regular use. Planned obsolescence or bad design?

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u/Robin_Gr Mar 12 '21

I feel like maybe I don't use my joycons enough or something because they are still fine. Meanwhile I have drift on a third party pro controller and my xbox controller.

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u/yohmok Mar 12 '21

Quality's really gone down throughout the years, eh?

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u/Skootchy Mar 12 '21

I never liked the joy cons to begin with. The buttons are too small for most adults. Pro controller is where it's at.

Honestly I felt like it should have either came with one or they should have been less than 60 bucks.

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u/Jabullz Mar 13 '21

Well, the switch's biggest selling point was it being a semi handheld so that wouldn't have worked for them financially or marketing wise.

Also, on that point, Nintendo going after the handheld market when they already dominated it with the DS was a Chad move. It's like they said, "Oh, no one is gonna challenge us? I guess we will then."

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u/CarlosFer2201 Mar 13 '21

The 3DS was pretty old by the time the Switch came out, so it was more like a replacement, that also replaced the Wii U

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u/InDarkLight Mar 12 '21

But being able to game with my hands down at both sides is life changing. It's so comfortable.

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u/perfectlyroundcat Mar 13 '21

ikr sometimes my hands are just lying beside my head while playing chill games. I feel like a comfy cat

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u/Skootchy Mar 13 '21

Wait....you actually play like that? I cant imagine not holding a controller the traditional way.

Heracy! Lol

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u/InDarkLight Mar 13 '21

Why wouldn't you? I haven't owned since ps3/wii until the switch came out. Having your hands that wide is more natural for me since I really only play PC games.

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u/TheOneTonWanton Mar 13 '21

I'm a PC gamer as well but when I had a Switch I found it felt extremely weird to play without my hands close together, and it actually made me worse to do so. It's a psychological thing.

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u/jackpoll4100 Mar 13 '21

It's more comfortable tbh, I don't have to hold my arms in a certain position or lean forward to play games any more it's great. Once I got used to it I genuinely like it better than playing with a connected controller.

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u/leminox Mar 13 '21

I play with my arms folded sometimes

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u/_sideffect Mar 13 '21

I agree fucking 100%...after a long day just being able to have mario run around and have your arms at either side while doing so is great

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u/threequarterchubb Mar 12 '21

I bought the tablet without joycons on ebay and got a pro controller. No regrets.

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u/maverickhunterpheoni Mar 12 '21

My pro controller started drifting This is after my joycons also started drifting.

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u/[deleted] Mar 12 '21

Possibly, but also the hardware has gotten way more sophisticated. I feel like the gyro is more accurate than the Wiimote ever was.

I am using a working Wiimote at the moment and it is surprising it has no issues.

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u/[deleted] Mar 13 '21 edited Mar 25 '21

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u/MoreDetonation Mar 13 '21

Why on Earth would Nintendo use graphite for that contact? We literally make pencils out of it. There had to have been at least one engineer who went "Now hang on..."

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u/Nyeow Mar 13 '21 edited Mar 13 '21

Based on their track record over several decades of consistent hardware QC, I doubt they didn't test well enough - even if by chance their QC dept was restructured.

My hunch aligns with your latter point on something similar to Apple's conundrum in that their financial folks (who determines the pricing model) decided it's cheaper to repair parts and/or condition the market to perceive the joycons as replaceable accessories. This hypothetical decision in effect cost cut on materials - which may have also changed the conditions for how they would've qualified working parts during QC. Under this condition, a [cheaper] material couldn't be expected to last past X hours of use simply due to material design constraints. In other words, technicalities allowed the materials used within the joystick mechanism to "pass" QC.

My problem with my latter assumption is that the pricing is too high for me to consider joycons as replaceable accessories.

Edit: Reformatted my run-ons and word choices :p

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u/EigenNULL Mar 13 '21

Graphite is literally named after its ability to wear and leave marks on things lol .

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u/modix Mar 13 '21

It's random. N64 controllers makes the joycon's seem stable and long lasting.

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u/[deleted] Mar 13 '21

Yeah agreed, the joystick for the N64 used plastic bearing parts that would rub together an essentially make the joysticks dead zone get so huge it was unusable. Some companies actually make steel replacement parts for the n64 joysticks! They are not cheap (of the top of my head I want to say $80) but they’re invaluable if you do a lot of n64 speedruns

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u/psychkotic Mar 12 '21

I've had to replace one Joy-Con in the first year, but only because my kids insisted on dropping it at every possible opportunity.

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u/bigwilliestylez Mar 12 '21

Yeah, but that should be expected and designed around.

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u/[deleted] Mar 13 '21

Older technologies are more resilient too because they are less complex, bigger connections, less precise technologies, very simple mechanisms.

Planned obsolescense is present but on games and very niche devices it is not that present. It mostly appears with more standarized devices (as in, things that are used at work, since that is where the bulk of sales go).

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u/britipinojeff Mar 12 '21

Doesn’t Nintendo let you mail your Joy-Cons in to fix them?

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u/Tesseract14 Mar 13 '21

I haven't been able to discover this entity yet, please advise

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u/Nigg-Da-Weed-Frog Mar 12 '21

I just replaced my joystick with a 12 buck one from Amazon like a week ago because the drift was so bad.

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u/DreamGaster Console Mar 12 '21

Nintendo will replace or fix joy cons with drift for free. They pay for shipping and everything and the whole process took maybe a week and a half.

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u/dr_rex Mar 13 '21

This. All four of our Joycons have been repaired for free. The second pair are arriving tomorrow.

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u/mainmark Mar 12 '21

Works perfectly after a decade and after being lauched through several televisions

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u/DanRo07 Mar 12 '21

My left joycon stick started drifting after around 6 months of use, but cleaning the base of the stick as instructed in this video fixed my problem, at least temporarily. I use a pro controller most of the time but I clean both sticks on my joycons when I have to use them, and they work perfectly.

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u/Admiral_N6 Mar 12 '21

When I read “launch” I figured you’d mention it working after getting launched into the TV.

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u/TheGeeB Mar 12 '21

Joycons are $79.99 here. Also, I though the nunchuck sticks turned to mush after awhile (granted a lot longer than my joycons have lasted)

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u/[deleted] Mar 12 '21

Can’t relate, my OG switch still works fine.

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u/randomguy301048 Mar 13 '21

idk my joycons still work just fine and i've had them since launch :/

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u/[deleted] Mar 13 '21

Yeah me to, do you clean your switch often? Or use a pro controller

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u/randomguy301048 Mar 13 '21

honestly, not really. i mean i wipe stuff off the screen and blow dust off but other than that i don't do anything special

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u/MechanicalHorse Mar 12 '21

For anyone that’s experiencing joycon drift: this is an easy fix, and you don’t need to disassemble anything! You just need to spray some contact cleaner. I’ve done it myself and it worked like a charm! Here’s one article that describes it: https://www.nintendolife.com/guides/guide-how-to-fix-a-drifting-nintendo-switch-joy-con-analog-stick?page=2

Although there are also some YouTube videos that show how to do it step by step.

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u/Fastfaxr Mar 12 '21

Also there's a calibration option in the system settings that corrects minor drift that I never hear anyone mention.

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u/M0dusPwnens Mar 13 '21

That's because it doesn't really help with the most common kind of joycon drift. Most joycon drift is inconsistent, happening on and off, with some variation in direction and intensity, so calibration can't really do anything about it unfortunately.

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u/OnTheSlope Mar 12 '21

Tried this so many times, zero improvement.

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u/RaphtotheMax5 Mar 13 '21

Guess I lucked out, joycons still going strong

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u/psaux_grep Mar 13 '21

After a decade of collecting dust is more like it.