One of the biggest issues that’s plagued the Nintendo Switch since its launch in 2017 is stick drift. In fact, Nintendo faced several lawsuits as a result of the issue, with an ex-repair supervisor previously stating that the workload to fix drifting Joy-Con was “very stressful”.
Now, while we can acknowledge that Nintendo has undoubtedly been working hard behind the scenes to mitigate the issue for the upcoming Switch 2, we’re nevertheless disheartened to confirm that the Joy-Con 2’s joysticks will not be Hall Effect.
If the magents are in the handheld it would mean that they would need to be recalibrated every time the joycons are taken off right? Thatcwould be terrible in a consumer product if I’m understanding correctly.
No, it can detect when it’s connected, so it would just switch to the other calibration factors.
I don’t know why i didn’t think of that. Was kinda trying to figure out why not use them when they aren’t that much more expensive considering how expensive the new joycons will probably be.
The cynic in me says, “so they can sell more replacements,” but there could be a technical reason that I’m not aware of. I’m not familiar with the technical details of hall effect sticks, so I could very well be missing some downsides.