I am experiencing some horrible Joy Con drift and I NEED to vent on this, so it may be slightly disjointed because of how pissed I am.
I mean come on! Can someone explain to me how my N64 controller from 1996 plays as perfectly as it did the day it was made, but a Nintendo Switch Joy Con from 2019 and every pro controller I've purchased in the last year have had drift to the point of being almost unplayable? This isn't even an "entitled Nintendo fan" thing or anything like that, I've never had this problem on ANY console with analog controllers that I've owned, and the fact that it's so prevalent with the Nintendo Switch because of the quality sacrificed with it its flimsy controllers and the amount of people who have complained about it as well with no permanent fix from Nintendo is what pisses me off to no end.
And to those who may try to say "Nintendo fixes busted Joy Cons for free now", IT SHOULD NOT HAVE TO BE THAT WAY FOR ANY CONTROLLER. As I pointed out, the N64 controllers I've had for over 20 years now still work perfectly. My Gamecube controller from 2001 still works perfectly. My PS2 controllers from 2003 still work perfectly. Nintendo has no excuse for these Switch controllers to be so poorly manufactured when the rest of the console is absolute gold. We already paid $300+ for a top of the line and innovative console, the quality should extend to those controllers. And who's to say those controllers won't end up busting again a short time down the line? It would not be worth the hassle of shipping my controllers off to Nintendo again for another fix, especially with Asshole-In-Chief's shitheaded coup attempt to slow down the mail in an attempt of rigging the upcoming election meaning I wouldn't see those fucks for months.
And if you have a Switch Lite it's even worse if you have drift because the controllers don't detach, meaning you have to ship your ENTIRE FUCKING CONSOLE to Nintendo. So no, I will not stop griping about this until Nintendo does more than just acknowledge the problem and actually delivers on a permanent fix with their controllers.
I feel this quote from James "The Angry Video Game Nerd" Rolfe from his Atari 5200 review sums up the situation perfectly:
"What's the most important aspect about any game? Well, being able to fucking play it! And what do you need to fucking play it? A fucking controller! So, what do you do when the controller doesn't work? You're fucked! [...] In the name of God, Heaven, and Hell, everything in between, every creature on Earth, by the far reaches of the galaxy, by the inner rims of the universe, and every megaverse in the ultraverse, let it be known, let the word be known: THIS CONTROLLER IS FUCKING HORRIBLE!!"
