Nintendo President Issues Apology For Joy-Con Drift Issue
It appears that Nintendo’s president, Shuntaro Furukawa has issued an apology regarding the company’s Joy-Con controllers. What was the problem? Well they simply had ‘drift’ issues.
Nintendo apologizes for Joy-Con drift problem
If you are not aware of the problem it brings, it makes the controller to register movement inputs without the controller’s analogs even being moved.
The company is facing a lawsuit, which was originally filed in 2019 regarding the problems they have in the Joy-Con.
Here’s what the company’s president had to say about it:
Regarding the Joy-Con, we apologize for any trouble cause to our customers. We are continuing to aim to improve our products, but as the Joy-Con is the subject of a class-action lawsuit in the United States and this is still a pending issue, we would like to refrain from responding about any specific actions.
Shuntaro Furukawa, Nintendo president
This is not the first time that a company has landed in hot water for their controller as Microsoft also had been called out for the same issue for their Xbox Elite controller.
Pokdepinion: Hey at least they are actually acknowlodging the issue and aren’t running away from it. Do you game on Switch? Do you have the problem?