Now the new and improved Switch revision is out in the wild, more videos are beginning to appear online that run through the exact differences. Apart from the Switch itself, though, it seems the Joy-Con have also had some internal design changes.
YouTuber Kevin Kenson took it upon himself to open up the Joy-Con that came with the new Switch and found the controller had many different internal parts. One of the more interesting discoveries, about 14 minutes into the video, was that the "housing for the controller stick" is not the same as the one in older Joy-Con.
The question is, will this resolve the drifting issues? Unfortunately, it seems unlikely. Kenson goes onto explain how YouTube channel Spawn Wave took apart the control stick casing and found the magnetic coating still flakes. So, while these newer Joy-Con are slightly different, there's no guarantee the drift issue has been resolved.
View the full video above and tell us in the comments if you're considering picking up a new model Switch.
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Let's wait and see after continued use.
Neat! While it's unfortunate that they still flake, hopefully Nintendo gets a revision out.
Honestly, the Switch Joycon is the first Nintendo controller I have ever replaced. Even my N64 controllers lasted years and years before finally failing, and that was mainly from poor upkeep!
Hmmm... here's a crazy thought. How about taking one apart yourselves (down to the bone) and reporting on this 1st hand? And in great detail?
@Tsusasi Why do the work, when other people can do it for you? Re-reporting is easier.
I've kind of given up hope for more first hand research from Nintendo Life and in a sense I understand why they mostly do re-report stuff outside of their own reviews and features like the soapbox (which I do enjoy).
On the other hand, they would be taken more seriously as a journalistic site if they did some more original work. But most gaming news sites just circulate other's content these days anyway. It's only the biggest outlets that have the resources, industry contacts and inside information to do the real digging.
Youtubers like the above mentioned Spawn Wave also mostly re-reports work from big sites like Kotaku or Polygon. But often they do it in a simple way and with their own spin on it. That's why I enjoy watching some of them, like Spawn Wave.
And I enjoy visiting NL because of the community and the discussions here.
Interesting. People say the screen is different. I wonder how?
I still actively use the Cube controller my brother got with the console. It survived me teething (unlike a few PS1 games) and has no rubber on the stick or C-Stick but it works perfectly. My left Joy-Con is almost a year old and unplayable due to the stick drifting left constantly. I might just get a pro controller, I can’t get to the post office before my warranty runs out.
this will would b good news that nintendo did fix the drift issue on the revision switch model.
Nintendo needs to get a revision out so they aren't stuck doing free repairs in the Americas.
@60frames-please it runs every game on 60 fps
My first Switch got BSOD, no third party dock, no hacking. Then my second and third switch developed joycon drift... plus I had to change antena position for disconections, ZR/ZL+LED flex cabel not working, and plastic locks don't work properly too... Unbelievable.
@60frames-please Its brighter and more color accurate
Plenty of malfunctions on Switch in 2 years, but NO malfunctions on my 15 other nintendo consoles so far (3 Wii, 2 WiiU, 2 DS, 8 3DS). Sorry but Switch is the least reliable nintendo product ever.
Too bad. Won’t buy!
I got my Switch since launch and I had not had any problem with it at all and I had been playing that thing more than my PS2, PS4, PS3, 3DS, Dreamcast, Super NES, and PC. Yes mine does had the joycon drifting issues too but so does my GameCube controllers and those could easily be fix by just recalibrate or turning the system off.
Unless you don't know how to take good care of your system, constantly threw it around, letting the kids reck it or many other abuse then yes your Switch will not last long. My NES still had the blinking red light but that thing still works, my Super NES had a broken eject button but it still works, my N64 had load problems but it still works, my Dreamcast had disc read error sometimes but it still works, my PS1 had disc read errors and sometime glitches but still works. Thing is not everything last and these issues whether minor or major will be fix sooner or later.
@wildbob sounds like a massive outlier. I guess I'll pitch in then: launch unit, not a single issue. Nothing of the horrors the internet vividly chants about.
Absolute quality product.
@SenseiDje Not buying it will make that model more harder to find in the future. A product like this that isn't selling is a good product that scalpers will find interesting to scalp the price of in the future. You not buying it means not many models will sell which means only limited numbers of these are in the wild. Once Nintendo end productions of it, those who didn't buy it the first time will have difficulty seeking one. You best buy it now and hope that production skyrocket so we would at least find these more easily in the near future so we don't have to go through the ones that had problems.
Should've shown Spawn Wave's one instead. You only mention it because Kevin did, but he actually discovered more things and did it first. Like how the antenna is repositioned the way he did it 2 years ago. Fixing any connection issues that joy con had.
@mazzel even the joy cons run at 60fps.
@mazzel That would be the screen I've been looking for!
@MasterJay Cool, I look forward to seeing it in action.
@retro_player_22
I validate your attitude toward scalpers.
but I won't buy any joycons / switch /switchlite before an official statement from nintendo about resolved drifting issues.
I just can't. there are 3 switchs in my house, and 6 drifting joycons.
I'm not supporting this BS anymore.
@Blizzia @wildbob
Woah Wildbob holy £&@“ that’s some bad luck! I’ve been fortunate like Blizzia - launch edition no issues, not any drift and I play a lot of portable using JCs. I must be one of the lucky ones. However I’m not buying anymore JCs until they’ve sorted the issues out though.
I see the new neon red still has the problem where the colour of plastic insert near the triggers doesn't match.
@Quarth journalism in general is just copy and paste these days.
I like to flick my switch.
@Tsusasi
What’s the point when others who know the subject well can do it? Why sacrifice a JoyCon? I’m not particularly fussed about an NL Writer going ‘well....it looks a bit different....maybe’
@Tsusasi
I kind of stayed for the reposting of info. This site gives you a pretty complete look of the news floating around the internet, that's what I was looking for. I just want a nice daily recap of what happened.
That said, Alex and Zion make sure there's a vid everyday. And there's loads of original pieces from reviews, testing to think pieces.
Old News https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2019/06/nintendo_moves_switch_manufacturing_out_of_china_two_new_models_reportedly_in_production#comment5103572
welp lets wait and see when people gets the updated switch and starts playing it a lot.
@MartyFlan It's true. I own two news websites and I got tired of the industry norm of copy and paste years ago, which unfortunately carried over into my journalists as well and it was almost impossible to get them to stop.
One way I did combat it, though, was to require at least two different sources per article, and I checked for copy and paste and if something was too similar, I required a rewrite.
Not sure how things are done at NL, but that's what I did for awhile. Unfortunately, other things in life pulled me away from the websites, so they are no longer maintained.
Whelp, guess it's about time to send in my joycons for repair. I'll just have to stay docked for the time being (siiiiiigh...)
"The Joy-Con Bundled With The Switch Revision Are Slightly Different. On the inside"
This is really poor journalism and it's even worse because the text contradicts the title. Kevin says that he didn't open the new stick modules which is the most important part considering the tearing issues and he asked Spawn Wave, who tore the modules down and said that they are basically the same inside. Some things inside the joy-cons are placed differently like the wireless antenna but the components seem to be exactly the same with a different model number. I never thought that youtubers would be more rigorous than a Nintendo news website.
@nessisonett The Pro controller also drifts. Once you got it, there's a simple way to prevent this to happen. Search Youtube videos about it.
I don't get it. My Joy-Con has been doing Drifting issues for almost a year come October yet it still works somewhat fine in Smash without the occasional sticking issue, but if I keep playing with it over time, it'll probably not work at all. Why is it that everyone keeps saying that you should a Pro Controller? What's the difference between the two?
@nintendork64 the World needs more journalists like you. I genuinely do not believe what the media tell me anymore. I saw Michael Jackson in 2006, he accepted an award from Beyoncé in London at the World Music Awards, it was televised, the footage is easy to find on YouTube... he absolutely blew the roof off the place it was unbelievable. The next day the UK media told their readers he was booed off stage. That story was copy and pasted globally, the World was told, and accepted, that he was booed off stage. I was there and I could not believe how easily they lied about such a simple thing, and how quickly it was picked up & spread by a corrupt, vindictive, money driven media.
@electrolite77 because then it wouldn't be 3rd hand heresay and would be far more informative and easier to describe, discuss and perform specific exploration instead of regurgitating and interpreting the words of others. And what about doing actual stress tests instead of scraping with a sharp object? Do real world wear and tear and track the effects. That is why.
@retro_player_22 You start your statement by saying you've had no problems with your Switch but then say you've had the drifting issue. That's a problem with your Switch.
@Tsusasi
I can understand asking for stress tests but that doesn’t need them to take it apart. NL dismantling a JoyCon would just be duplicated effort that would add nothing to what’s been done elsewhere.
@JamesJose7
Yeah that made no sense, this doesn't need the first video at all as the spawnwave one makes it useless.
@electrolite77 not even remotely true. Doing stress tests without actually viewing what's going on inside and tracking the wear vs a Joy Con of eary run tells yoi far more that copying and pasting some dude opening ine and scraping it with a pointy stick. It's called journalism and research. If they just took it apart, yes. But that's not at all what I'm saying. Spawn Wave stopped short of any real research. It's just opening it up. And there was more that could have been described. I had questions about the build. NL could have done a far more thorough play by play, far more in depth and then done stress tests involving opening them up to track wear and tear of each and compare. THAT would be useful, insteas of just shugging and copying and pasting.
@nessisonett
"Teething?" Ha, yeah right! The Gamecube isn't old enough for someone on here to have been teething at the time...
Looks up year of release. Looks at calendar
Oh. I feel old.
Dpad issues on the Pro Controller. Analog stick issues on the joycon. 70 and 80 bucks. Jesus.
@Dang69 Yeah, I don't understand how Nintendo screwed up the pro controller d pad. The Wii u pro controller is perfect, awesome d pad. Just put that same d pad on the pro controller! Or the d pad on the Wii u tablet controller, both of those are great. Why doesn't Nintendo put those d pads on the pro controller??
@60frames-please Makes no sense other than they rushed all their Switch hardware out and it all has issues. I've had to send in my whole Switch in Jan - 2 joycon sets a couple weeks ago (this is after I traded in my first 2 sets because of those launch era desynching issues) - I am on my second Procontroller (but I did drop my first one ONCE so I assume I messed up the left stick on that one - the revised Pro Controller has a 60 percent better dpad that still misfires) - my Nintendo official GC controllers have the dpad issues (not a big deal there) - my Switch once in awhile loves to wake up in my Official Nintendo case even when I have it in airplane mode - my dock absolutely scratches my Switch no matter how gentle I am docking it, etc. Fkn blows.
There's more to this drifting issue. Recently I couldn't even jump in Smash. So the drifting makes everything worse.
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