The Joy-Con War Is Over. We Lost.

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LS my

friends the

war is

over you can go

home you can go home now everybody go

back to your

families the war is over and we lost

earlier this generation a number of

lawsuits were filed against Nintendo uh

parents on behalf of their children

claiming that Nintendo was selling

purpose selling faulty products even

going so far as to say that Nintendo was

hoping you know planned obsolescence

selling controllers that inevitably had

to be repaired or replaced and I'm of

course referring to the dreaded joyon

drift three major lawsuits were filed

there was Sanchez versus Nintendo uh

apparently that was dismissed in 2022 I

I didn't catch that uh but then just now

the the final two big ones Diaz versus

Nintendo and car bajal versus Nintendo

they have officially been dismissed uh I

don't have any other info on this it it

I it just kind of seems like everybody

just sort of agreed to drop it everyone

just kind of got tired of pursuing it or

something maybe there's stuff going on

behind the scenes but just Nintendo and

everyone everybody just decided let's

call the whole thing off and maybe it's

not necessary because we've gone over

this so many times but I feel like I

have to because the comments always go

the same way it is baffling to me that

after all these years we still have

people who claim that joyon drift was

not real or it's overblown or it's

simply a product of people misusing

their controllers and once more I will

say I have been so careful with every

single one of my game consoles

controllers games everything I have

never had any controller break or even

wear down in such a way that made it

difficult to use ever I am so careful

and yet I have had so many pairs of

joycons start to drift and become

completely unusable so many and everyone

that I know every switch player that I

know have all experienced the same thing

pair after pair of joy-cons experiencing

drift there W there there was something

wrong with the design of the joycons it

is a fact I'm happy for you if it never

happened to you we still don't know

exactly what caused it what

environmental conditions or something

but it was a real thing and it has cost

people a lot of money and it's true that

Nintendo has offered free repairs in

many territories but not all of them and

not everybody is aware that this is a

service that they offer a lot of people

have been forced to just buy more pairs

of joycons it's been a big problem for a

lot of people cost a lot of time and

money so it is disappointing to hear

that these lawsuits have gone nowhere

because it felt good knowing that people

were filing these lawsuits it felt good

that somebody's willing to you know to

stand up to Nintendo and and as always I

will say I do not hate Nintendo I do not

think that they are one of those big

evil soulless corporate entities I think

overall they're doing a great job but

this joyon

issue it stunk it was really just a

really bad look for them

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now now back to the video I do not

believe as some of these people have

claimed that Nintendo was like

purposefully selling products uh

purposefully utilizing the idea of

planned obsolescence ah we'll we'll sell

them these controllers and they'll go

bad and they'll have to buy more mahaha

like it it it was not purposeful I don't

believe it was I think it was just a

flaw and Nintendo knew that it would be

very expensive uh to fix that flaw they

didn't know how to fix it immediately

and they didn't want to have to

compensate every single person on the

planet who had bought a joycon and was

experiencing drift they just didn't want

to do it and that's that's disappointing

especially because they they've made so

much money this generation the switch

itself has made them so much money they

could afford it they could afford to fix

it again I'll bring up Xbox 360 was

experiencing the dreaded red ring of

death and Xbox was like yeah this is

going to cost us a billion dollars but

it doesn't matter we're going to fix it

because we need we have a brand to

maintain we we have customer loyalty to

Foster and it's disappointing that in

Nintendo I guess in Nintendo's eyes this

issue was an issue but it wasn't big

enough it wasn't quite big enough for

them to like have to fix you know what I

mean it would be a very inconvenient

problem to address headon and yet that

is what I wanted to see them do and they

refused to do it so it was nice when

people are filing these lawsuits and uh

and it's disappointing to see them just

finally fall through that's it like this

whole like this whole joyc con War

Nintendo one in the end they got their

way and like what what even were we

looking for in terms of like

compensation if these lawsuits did like

if these people won like what do we want

Nintendo to do well I I do think that in

a class action lawsuit like the idea is

that affected people can like file a

claim and get some money returned to

them and I I think that that would have

really helped anybody who's experienced

this problem uh you know maybe if they

can provide like proof of purchase for

all these different joycons or something

they could just get a little bit of

money back and I think that that would

have really really helped Nintendo

offering free repairs in every territory

and even advertising that they're

offering free repairs trying to reach as

many people as possible that that's

another thing I wanted to see them do

and I think would have been great if

this these lawsuits if they had won

maybe that's some we would have seen

something like that but now now that

none of that is going to happen um it is

disappointing and here's the thing about

it though here's the thing I will admit

the joyon

issue seems to be more or less solved I

think that Nintendo was not able to

address the issue headon and like fix it

right away it kind of seems like they've

sort of uh improved the joycons over

time made maybe very small tweaks to the

hardware itself because the the problem

seems to have just kind of just just

kind of lessened over the years early on

it was awful like my first few pairs of

joy-cons like after you know 6 months to

a year or something they were like by

then they were completely unusable but

now I have had my switch OLED since the

OLED came out what was it like 2 years

ago by now and my nephew has played it

handheld he has used those joycons for a

tremendous number of hours way more than

I ever even used my original joycons on

my like first model switch and despite

that they have not started drifting it

just kind of hasn't happened and i' I've

been pretty surprised it hasn't happened

they do pop off of the switch like they

don't even they don't even click on

anymore which is a problem in itself but

they have not drifted so at least from

my perspective Nintendo seems to have

fixed this and I could be wrong it could

be that there are other people with

switch oleds and they're drifting too

but I also haven't heard it happening as

much I've not heard as many people

complaining about it it doesn't seem

like my friends are experiencing it very

much anymore um so I guess more or less

the problem is fixed and that is good

and I should be

happy and yet despite that or maybe even

because of that I'm still disappointed

in Nintendo and in the fact that they

have won essentially these lawsuits I am

still annoyed I still don't like it

because it sets a very bad precedent the

joyon problem was a very big problem and

Nintendo basically just said

nuh-uh no it isn't and I know like one

point at one point they offered like

kind of a half apology and kind of

admitted that something was going on but

they still never really truly addressed

the problem they you know they were

trying to offer some free repairs here

and there and stuff but for the most

part they just hid from the problem they

fought the expectation that they needed

to address the problem headon and

compensate people they just said nuh-uh

no we don't we're not going to fix it

and they did that for so long that now

the problem seems to not really be a

problem anymore and they are essentially

getting off scot-free

Nintendo has learned if the problem

isn't quite big enough you ignore it for

long enough you can get away with it and

that's what I don't like you know it's

like it's it's like a kid who won't

clean their room won't do it parents are

getting mad they're threatening you're

going to get in trouble such and such

you got to clean your room this is your

responsibility it's your room and it's

your stuff you are not the only person

living in this house you have to clean

your room kid says Nah not going to do

it or maybe the kid kind of like toys

with the idea of doing it makes a few a

few public statements you know I I

really think uh I think I'm might be I

might be ready to clean my room kind of

soon i' I've been taking I've been

taking preliminary steps to cleaning my

room stay tuned and then just doesn't

clean the room years go by room is not

clean and eventually everyone just gets

tired of it and the parents just clean

the room for them the parents just do it

whatever we're all tired of this we're

tired of this mess we're tired of this

fight whatever well just clean your room

for you what's the lesson that that kid

learns you know what I mean that's

Nintendo right now they didn't clean

their room they did a bad thing they

never had to answer for it and now oh

look at that I guess everything turned

out okay after all looks like we made

the right decision you know what maybe

it doesn't matter that it's setting a

precedent maybe this will never happen

again because if the problem was smaller

it would have been easier to accept and

if it were bigger I like I said I I do

believe Nintendo would have addressed it

they would have had to they would have

had much more of a big media Scandal on

their hands if there was a much bigger

problem you know the the systems

themselves are breaking and are

unplayable or something like that red

ring of death kind of situation they

would have been forced to address it but

right here it just skirted that line it

was just easy enough to ignore until the

problem went away and maybe that won't

happen again maybe we won't get another

issue like that and um the switch kind

of felt rushed to Market and so it was

not like the best designed Hardware that

I mean it seemed to be the least

reliable Hardware that Nintendo has ever

produced you know most of their other

systems made with the nintendium and all

that stuff they seem to last forever the

switches just right out of the gate did

not feel as strong but they've probably

had a lot more time time and money to

spend on R&D for the next system so it

could be that switch 2 comes out and

it's it's great it's as strong as as a

Game Boy for all we know so maybe it

won't be a

problem but I still don't like it it

still doesn't feel good it still feels

kind of gross you know I still love

Nintendo I'm still buying their stuff

it's still happening so like I get it

but that that but like that's it right

there that's it they know they still

have us that's the thing they know that

I like them enough and I enjoy their

products enough that I'm not going to

let this one thing spoil everything am I

I'm not going to boycott them forever

and and stop playing their games and

quit my job as a Nintendo YouTuber just

because of this one thing right so let's

all just get back to playing games and I

have to just kind of grumble and do it

and I don't like

it but that's all I can do about it it's

all I'm willing to do this video right

here this is what I'm doing about it

that's what I'm doing with my

disappointment in them as a company

you're looking at it right now and this

is where it ends this this is it this is

the end of the joyon

Saga oh

well oh well it is what it is I guess as

always I would love to know your

thoughts about all of this down in the

comments and if you have a newer pair of

joycons you know basically like switch

OLED and later uh I'd really like to

know if you are experiencing drift with

those joycons like has if this has been

a problem for you does it seem like it

is more or less solved for you as well

please let us know I love you goodbye