If you've ever played a Nintendo Switch for any length of time, you may have experienced the dreaded plague of Joy-Con drift. Like a gamer spirit using your controller as its own personal Ouija board, ...

The Nintendo Switch 2 is already a huge success. Nintendo is selling more units than it can manufacture, and it's likely the high demand will hold for quite a while. The original Switch (and the ...

A patent for a new Nintendo controller, published by the United States Patent Office on September 7, indicates the Super Mario developer is at least considering how to permanently shake its Joy-Con ...

Nothing can ruin Switch games like your controller subtly registering movement without you touching it, which is why Joy-Con drift has to go. While Nintendo hasn’t quite nailed a solution in its first ...

There are many reasons to be excited about the Nintendo Switch 2, but one thing in particular has original Switch users ready to move on: Joy-Con drift. Plagued by a ...

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A newly surfaced patent for a joystick design might finally resolve Joy-Con drift. The patent, which includes several drawings and an abstract description, sheds light on a revised Joy-Con thumbstick ...

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Stick drift is a common issue with the PlayStation 5 DualSense controllers, but there are several reliable fixes you can try. Clearing debris by rotating the analog stick, and cleaning the base of the ...

The Switch 2 is in many ways a more premium and powerful version of the original Switch, but its sleek design seems to have come at a cost. Not only is the console itself difficult to repair, but a ...