The Nintendo Switch has revolutionized gaming with its hybrid console design, but like any electronic device, it can develop issues over time.
Tears of the Kingdom FOMO got me. I rarely rush out to buy — or these days, download at midnight — a game on release day. It's not that I don't like The Legend of Zelda or anything. I just don't enjoy ...
If you live east of the Mississippi River and you’ve ever had to send your Switch to Nintendo due to Joy-Con drift, then it definitely passed through a single repair shop in Syracuse, New York. Though ...
A new report on Nintendo's process for dealing with faulty Joy-Cons has revealed how the repair center tasked with fixing those controllers was soon overwhelmed with work. While Nintendo of America ...
Pam's Colecovision was her babysitter, from the age of 4 or 5, but the family only had one game. Over and over, hour after hour, she'd climb and jump through the three levels of Donkey Kong. But the ...
In a nutshell: Nintendo quietly expanded its free Joy-Con drift repair program across Europe. The change recently appeared on a support page on "responsiveness syndrome"---Nintendo's term for Joy-Con ...
A hot potato: Joystick drift has constantly dogged the latest game consoles over the last few years. This week, one former Nintendo Switch repair center supervisor shed some light on just how bad the ...
A Nintendo Switch repair center shares how the rising Joy-Con drift fix demand is affecting the performance of their staff. An employee walks past a logo of Japan's Nintendo Co. at a Nintendo store in ...
Nintendo’s Switch Joy-Cons are now a bit more affordable. Nintendo has announced that individual Joy-Cons will retail for $40 moving forward, down from $50. The permanent price change goes into effect ...
The repair center would receive “thousands” of Joy-Cons on a weekly basis The repair center would receive “thousands” of Joy-Cons on a weekly basis is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, ...
For the first time, top Nintendo brass has formally apologized for a Joy-Con controller malfunction that has impacted players around the world. “Regarding the Joy-Con, we apologize for any trouble ...
Nintendo is not legally obligated to offer the free repairs, but it seems to have covered any regulatory or legal concerns with the issue. Nintendo has now revealed that they will continue to repair ...