{"id":15420,"date":"2025-06-07T02:35:48","date_gmt":"2025-06-07T02:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/topat10.com\/?p=15420"},"modified":"2025-06-07T02:35:48","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T02:35:48","slug":"ifixit-says-switch-2-is-probably-still-drift-prone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/topat10.com\/?p=15420","title":{"rendered":"iFixit Says Switch 2 Is Probably Still Drift Prone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span class=\"lead-in-text-callout\">The long-awaited <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/tag\/nintendo\/\">Nintendo<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/this-is-the-nintendo-switch-2\/\">Switch 2<\/a> finally dropped this week, and while it makes a number of big improvements on its predecessor\u2014things like a better screen, beefier internal specs, and more accessible controls\u2014there is one thing it&#8217;s worse at. According to the repairability advocates and gleeful disassemblers at <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/www.ifixit.com\/\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.ifixit.com\/&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ifixit.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">iFixit<\/a>, it&#8217;s even harder to fix than the original Switch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Perhaps most worrying for new owners is that, despite a new \u201cfrom the ground up\u201d redesign for the Switch\u2019s Joy-Con controllers, the root cause of stick drift\u2014something that <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/www.gamesindustry.biz\/uk-watchdog-says-two-in-five-switch-joy-cons-affected-by-drift\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.gamesindustry.biz\/uk-watchdog-says-two-in-five-switch-joy-cons-affected-by-drift&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gamesindustry.biz\/uk-watchdog-says-two-in-five-switch-joy-cons-affected-by-drift\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">many owners<\/a> of the original have long complained of\u2014doesn&#8217;t seem to have been truly addressed in the Switch 2.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed\">\n<div class=\"AssetEmbedAssetContainer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-container\"><span class=\"SpanWrapper-umhxW lgCwTv responsive-asset AssetEmbedResponsiveAsset-cXBNxi lqMXz asset-embed__responsive-asset\"><picture class=\"ResponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedResponsiveAsset-cXBNxi lqMXz asset-embed__responsive-asset responsive-image\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Image may contain Electronics Hardware Computer Hardware Adapter and Blackboard\" class=\"ResponsiveImageContainer-eybHBd fptoWY responsive-image__image lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-src=\"https:\/\/media.wired.com\/photos\/684335e837970c3a200f07f5\/master\/w_1600%2Cc_limit\/I-FixIt-Switch-Repair-Gear-Switch2_layout2.jpg\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/media.wired.com\/photos\/684335e837970c3a200f07f5\/master\/w_120,c_limit\/I-FixIt-Switch-Repair-Gear-Switch2_layout2.jpg 120w, https:\/\/media.wired.com\/photos\/684335e837970c3a200f07f5\/master\/w_240,c_limit\/I-FixIt-Switch-Repair-Gear-Switch2_layout2.jpg 240w, https:\/\/media.wired.com\/photos\/684335e837970c3a200f07f5\/master\/w_320,c_limit\/I-FixIt-Switch-Repair-Gear-Switch2_layout2.jpg 320w, https:\/\/media.wired.com\/photos\/684335e837970c3a200f07f5\/master\/w_640,c_limit\/I-FixIt-Switch-Repair-Gear-Switch2_layout2.jpg 640w, https:\/\/media.wired.com\/photos\/684335e837970c3a200f07f5\/master\/w_960,c_limit\/I-FixIt-Switch-Repair-Gear-Switch2_layout2.jpg 960w, https:\/\/media.wired.com\/photos\/684335e837970c3a200f07f5\/master\/w_1280,c_limit\/I-FixIt-Switch-Repair-Gear-Switch2_layout2.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/media.wired.com\/photos\/684335e837970c3a200f07f5\/master\/w_1600,c_limit\/I-FixIt-Switch-Repair-Gear-Switch2_layout2.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"100vw\"\/><\/noscript><\/picture><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptionCredit-ejegDm iUEiRd isTgyB fNaHcW caption__credit\">Courtesy of iFixit<\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Stick drift is something that can happen to joysticks, usually over time or under heavy usage, where movement is registered without user input. iFixit points out that less-drifty joystick tech that relies on magnets instead of potentiometers, like Hall effect or tunneling magnetoresistance (TMR) sensors, can help prevent this, but it found neither of those present in the Switch 2.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">\u201cFrom what we can tell, the redesign didn\u2019t include a revision to the core tech that causes joystick drift,\u201d iFixit writes in its <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/www.ifixit.com\/News\/110926\/switch-2-teardown\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.ifixit.com\/News\/110926\/switch-2-teardown&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ifixit.com\/News\/110926\/switch-2-teardown\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">blog post<\/a>. \u201cUnless Nintendo is using some miracle new material on those resistive tracks, or the change in size magically solves it, the best fix is going to come from third-party replacements again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Even worse, iFixit found that replacing the Joy-Con controllers is actually more difficult this time round. \u201cWhatever tech they use \u2026 joysticks are a high-wear component. They can still break in a drop, even if they never suffer from drift. Being able to replace these things is a high priority for game console repairability.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Overall, iFixit has given the Switch 2 a repairability score of 3 out of 10. That\u2019s one point lower than the 4 out of 10 it <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/678622\/ifixit-nerfs-nintendo-switch-repair-score-battery-drift\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/678622\/ifixit-nerfs-nintendo-switch-repair-score-battery-drift&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/678622\/ifixit-nerfs-nintendo-switch-repair-score-battery-drift\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">recently retroactively<\/a> gave the first Switch, and lags behind the likes of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/playstation-5-review\/\">PlayStation 5<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/review\/xbox-series-x-review\/\">Xbox Series X<\/a>, both of which got 7 out of 10.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The long-awaited Nintendo Switch 2 finally dropped this week, and while it makes a number of big improvements on its predecessor\u2014things like a better screen, beefier internal specs, and more accessible controls\u2014there is one thing it&#8217;s worse at. 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