Worried about stick drift? This Switch 2 Joy Con teardown doesn’t bring good news
You might want to start saving for Joy Con replacements early.
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- A user teardown of the Nintendo Switch 2 Joy Cons revealed similar stick components.
- The Switch 1 Joy Cons have been plagued with drift problems for years.
- Other changes to the Joy Con design may prevent drift, but only time will tell.
Stick drift was one of the most notorious and persistent problems with the Nintendo Switch, and it’s looking like it might be an issue with the Switch 2 as well. A user teardown of the upgraded Switch 2 Joy Cons revealed troublingly similar hardware components.
In a series of images posted on Reddit, user and YouTuber moshi_yo disassembled their Switch 2 Joy Cons to find yet another ALPS potentiometer stick. They write: “I took one of the Joy-Con 2’s apart and the markings seem to point to them being Alps, and they look so similar to the original joy con sticks inside. Joy-Con drift lives on in the Switch 2 generation?”
