Do you think the Switch OLED will be scalped into oblivion like Switches were last year?

Gamepad said:
Potshot, really.

There's people with launch models who play in handheld constantly and will probably never encounter drift in its entire lifecycle, and there's others who will encounter drift even though they leave it on its dock 95% of the time.

It's the sheer variance of it all that really highlights its poor quality. Something's that consistently very good, or very bad are fairly straight forward. Things that are 50/50 will result in people arguing on the internet over the reliability of it.
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My joycons only started drifting last year and it was probably because i played a game that's run button was literally holding down L3. Before that the only "drift" I experienced was some weird shit in luigi;s mansion 3 where luigi would randomly walk to the right instead of standing still but literally everyone else I know that had that game had that problem when they got and played it no matter what controller they used when it came out so I think it's less a drift thing there and more something weird on the game's end.
 
Unless you're buying it as your kid's Christmas present, I don't see why you can't just wait until the demand inevitable dies down and the prices drop.
Which has the added bonus of seeing all the issues it has before you decide to buy it.
 
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I have 10 year old PS3 controllers that have been dropped on hard surfaces, used by little kids, and smacked. No drift. Only controller I've ever had that got what could be drift is a PS2 controller I treated horribly as a kid. That took nearly 7 years of owning the controller and it was barely noticeable.

Even shitty third party controllers of the 6th gen were almost impervious to drift for me.
 
I've never had a controller produce drift my entire life until the Joycons.

I didn't even know it was a thing, tbqh.
 
I think it'll be scalped, but nowhere near to the extent of the PS5 or XBox Series S/X. There are millions of Switches on the market already and the OLED model is only a screen and form factor update with no new hardware. The early hardware exploitable Switches will continue to be scalped far worse for piracy and game modding. I might actually upgrade to the OLED if it isn't scalped and finally mod my early Switch. As a Vita sperg, OLED screens look incredible as long as you're indoors.

As for Joycon drift, that's just a lotto. A lotto I've mostly avoided losing myself so far, although mine drifted a little right when Pokemon Sword came out. The Joycon joysticks are so tiny that any drift will register compared to something larger like the Pro Controller or Dualshock. At least the Joycon is completely modular inside. As long as you're willing to work with tiny ribbon cables replacing the stick or anything else is super easy, requiring only a screwdriver and being careful.
 
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Gamepad said:
Tri-wing screwdriver.

Because Nintendo hates you.
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As annoying as it is to try to find a JIS #0 or #00 in the US... I'd rather that than tri-wings. Seriously, what a massive fucking step back from the 3DS
 
Ed Special said:
I've yet to have any of the various $20 controllers I use with my PC start doing this, nor my SteamCon. Stop eating Nintendo's shitty excuses, podman.
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Didn't know that stating the cheap and random quality of the average modern controller (including Nintendo's) is now defending Nintendo itself.
By comparison, I have a few old controllers that still hold pretty well despite their age and use while I had to change at least once my DS4 because of the analog sticks and the LR trigger, and I may not expect the initial joycons to last for very long either.
 
BananaSplit said:
Didn't know that stating the cheap and random quality of the average modern controller (including Nintendo's) is now defending Nintendo itself.
By comparison, I have a few old controllers that still hold pretty well despite their age and use while I had to change at least once my DS4 because of the analog sticks and the LR trigger, and I may not expect the initial joycons to last for very long either.
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Going "it's a common problem for all modern controllers" is pretty false. It's rare for it to happen for many manufacturers. If drift happened with analog sticks, you would pop them open and clean them and that would fix the sensors. Here the drifting for the switch is due to the sticks themselves wearing down fast from moderate use.

The mechanism for the PS4 controllers only really drift when there's something blocking the stick censor like hair or dust, it's not the same root cause.
 
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Marissa Moira said:
Going "it's a common problem for all modern controllers"
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You have terrible reading skills. I said "average", not all. (Edit: I'm dumb)
And yes the components of modern controllers mainly aim for the cheap stuff instead of something more durable.
 
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BananaSplit said:
You have terrible reading skills. I said "average", not all.
And yes the components of modern controllers mainly aim for the cheap stuff instead of something more durable.
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You said this
BananaSplit said:
it's a common problem for all modern controllers however, not just joycons in particular, and third-party alternatives can have even less durable analog sticks. There is a kiwi user that pointed out a visual characteristic of sticks used by Nintendo which can be found among third-party controllers.
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And I'm telling you the sticks wearing down is unique among the joycons. if we're talking about modern controllers.
 
Well my apologies about the quote then
That said, that isn't unique to the joycons since DS5 controllers were also reported to have analog stick drift too.
www.ign.com

What To Do If Your PS5 DualSense Controller Drifts - PlayStation 5 Wiki Guide - IGN

Sony's PlayStation 5 controller has succumbed to the dreaded analog stick drift. This page covers how to identify stick drift, how to potentially fix it,
www.ign.com www.ign.com
And this isn't again defending Nintendo's or whatever, the poor and random quality of modern controllers isn't acceptable either way
 
BananaSplit said:
Well my apologies about the quote then
That said, that isn't unique to the joycons since DS5 controllers were also reported to have analog stick drift too.
www.ign.com

What To Do If Your PS5 DualSense Controller Drifts - PlayStation 5 Wiki Guide - IGN

Sony's PlayStation 5 controller has succumbed to the dreaded analog stick drift. This page covers how to identify stick drift, how to potentially fix it,
www.ign.com www.ign.com
And this isn't again not defending Nintendo's or whatever, the poor and random quality of modern controllers isn't acceptable either way
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Stick drift in Ds5 is not due to them wearing down either. That's a sensor problem where they can lock up. Game specific stuff can happen with the DS5 due too the rumble settings and that can cause a lag in priorities. Zero to do with how they're built or what parts they've used.
 
Massively Strong Greed said:
I got it in multiple pairs of Joy-Cons after 3 years. Thought it was a meme until it happened.
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bruh there comes a certain point at which a normal person with a working brain would say "Hmm I should stop buying these" and get a third-party controller made with higher-grade chinesium than the QC rejects Nintendo gets discounts on.
 
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Ed Special said:
bruh there comes a certain point at which a normal person with a working brain would say "Hmm I should stop buying these" and get a third-party controller made with higher-grade chinesium than the QC rejects Nintendo gets discounts on.
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I needed 4 Joy-Cons to play with friends, asshole.
 
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Massively Strong Greed said:
I needed 4 Joy-Cons to play with friends, asshole.
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pretty sure you can get four decent wireless third-party controllers for less than a single pair of joycons would cost... c'mon, learn how to comparison shop instead of just mindlessly consooming the official product
ED: just looked it up... yes, you can literally get like six third-party joycon clones for the cost of a single pair of official joycons on scamazon and while their buttons will probably be worse, i guarantee the chinesium joystick on these is still less chintzy than the chinesium sensors in the official hardware.. and while still having a less arthritis-inducing form factor. unga fucking bunga, bug-eating podnigger
 
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