Topic: Loose joycon

Who else thinks nintendo should seriously beef up their game and reinforce the joycon locks and change them from plastic to metal

Mine are both loose to doesn't help having a 1 year old who like o play it though.

My first one happened in its first week.

I can relate to this as my original Switch had a loose Joy-con out the box, and it actually creaked, loud enough to be distracting. I returned it to the store and the owner tried different Joy-con on it, all with the same results. The issue then was with the rail on the console itself. I managed to exchange it for a new console which gave me a tight connection but over time I have noticed them to slightly loosen. Definitely not to the extent previously though.

My left one is also loose despite being careful. Glad I'm having a second pair which I am now using all the time

1 year old is kind of too young to start playing video games.

If any other NS gamers bought extended warranty like I did for my NS-I would be up the creek for Joy-Con replacement. GS was my warranty they replaced no question asked. My nephew broke the left side Joy-Con probably from dropping it because it would pop out without warning-not like how you release it. So having extended warranty no question asked helped fix the problem.

I haven't had issue with this. But I don't attach and remove my Joycon very often. When I play docked, I use a pro-controller. I usually only detach my joycon when I take my Switch with me AND decide to play tabletop.

But I have had my Switch from launch and no problems. People talking about having little kids using the systems... there is your problem. Kids have no idea how to treat things. It's cause they are kids. You need to expect your toddlers to break whatever you give them, because that is what is gonna happen. There is a reason toys actually made for kids that age usually are solid plastic with no moving parts.

They are made from plastic on purpose. There are probably a couple of different reasons for it, but the main thing is that the J-C system is designed for everyday sliding in and out of the Switch, and they have to plan that in some situations people are going to jam it or break it off. They want to control where the weakest point is so that it is the easiest thing to replace. That is the rail on the Joy-Con. If they didn't make that weaker, breaks would occur randomly in the J-C itself or even in the body of the Switch, which is a lot more expensive and hard to replace than a plastic rail on a J-C.