 Hey everyone, I am Nathan RoboJazz from Nintendo Prime and today you're kind of seeing a little mess in front of me here. Nintendo put out a new developer asks or asked the developer volume to and it's about the Switch OLED which by the way I'll be picking up my retail version of the Switch OLED here a little bit later we'll be live streaming that but I had to make a video this morning because something in here they said didn't jive with my own discoveries but they might be correct in a way that is really hard for me to test so according to this ask they actually improved the joycons did they finally fix joycon drift because they specifically mentioned they improved the joystick the only reason to do that is to fix drift is drift fixed what did they change well I took apart my joycon to find out but before we get into what they said I want to remind you we are giving away three copies of Metroid Dread all you have to do is be subscribed to the channel to enter by the way you got to be subscribed to win any of our giveaways and uh yeah by at the end of the month we'll have some sort of event or some sort of announcement or something like that of the winners of those games all right let's dive into what Nintendo said here in this uh asset developer there's a section on the there's four parts to it and then the final part uh there's a part that says another major characteristic of the Nintendo switch is the joycon controllers a big part of the user experience comes from joycon but were there any improvements yamashita says joycon controllers have lots of different features so we've been continuing to make improvements that may not always be visible among others the analog stick parts have continuously been improved since launch and we are still working on improvements the analog stick at first release cleared the Nintendo reliability test using the method of rotating the stick while continually applying a load to it with the same criteria as the Wii U game pads analog stick as we have always been trying to improve it as well we have investigated the joycon controllers used by the customers and repeatedly improve the wear resistance and durability the parts of the joycon analog sticks are not something that can be bought off the shelf but are specifically designed so we have undergone a lot of considerations to improve them in addition we improve the reliability test itself and we have continued to make changes to improve durability and clear this new test when the effects of our improvements were confirmed we promptly incorporated them into the joycon controllers that are included with the console nintendo switched light and the ones sold individually that were manufactured at that time this involves the internal components of the joycon so you can't tell the improvements from the outside but we have used new versions of the parts when we repair them and also similar continual improvements have been made for the nintendo switch pro controller as well um and then uh and then they they actually press them on this credit to nintendo they're not specifically mentioning drift but they do dive deeper here says do you mean that basically wear is unavoidable as long as parts are physically in context yoda says yes for example car tires wear out as the car moves as they are in constant friction with the ground to rotate so with the same premise we ask ourselves how can we improve durability and not only that but how come both compatibility and durability coexist is there something we are continuously tackling you know machita says the degree of wear depends on factors like the combination of materials and forms so we continue to make improvements by researching which combination are less likely to wear you mentioned that the joycon controllers specifically hadn't changed in the sense that we hadn't added new features such as new buttons but the analog sticks in the joycon controllers included with the nintendo switch olab model are the latest version with all the improvements needless to say so are the analog sticks included in the nintendo switch nintendo switch lights sold separately joycon controllers and nintendo switch pro controllers that are currently being shipped so they're saying hey look everything today whether you buy an olad or you buy a new switch or new light will have the improvements so i question did they actually do anything because remember we a long time ago was pointed out that there seemed to be a weird design principle behind these sticks and so what what could you know be done about it well i took apart this joycon this is a switch olad joycon the latest according to nintendo that they have done with the revision and i took apart the stick itself and here's a couple pictures now when you compare these to the original switch joycon the design has not changed so one thing people hoped to fix drift is that nintendo would fundamentally change the design of the joystick and well they didn't so this is why my original conclusion when people asked me was were there any changes to the joystick and my answer was no because hello look it looks identical there's different part numbers but it looks identical to prior sticks but nintendo's claim isn't so much that they redesigned how the stick works their claim is that they made it more durable now doing a durability test is a little bit difficult on my end because you're basically the presumption here is that the reason drift occurs is because of wear and tear on that metal padding or dust and or wear and tear on some of the other contact points now this has obviously something you know the dust part you can't really do necessarily much about just hope the enclosure is nice and tight and it's really hard to get dust into uh but the wear and tear on that metal part um that seems to be you know some people fix by sticking cardboard and because it pops the part back up the thing is um i don't really know how to test the durability of this this is where my lack of knowledge comes because i could obviously take my screwdriver here or take a little pick or you know like this and i could easily go ahead and scratch that metal and i guarantee i'll be able to scratch that metal just as easily as the prior metal on old joycon so like i'm not so sure that doing that is going to necessarily um prove anything because if they have improved the durability of that metal it's not going to be something that if you pick at it with another piece of metal you're going to be able to actually tell a direct difference now you could try to use hardness tests of course but hardness tests aren't necessarily made for this specific use case on such a thin PCB so i also don't want to go ahead and ruin the joystick because i don't know how readily available the latest and greatest joysticks are out there so in conclusion obviously i took it apart i compared they look the same it's possible nintendo is 100 telling the truth here the only way to really prove at this point that there the these joysticks are more durable is the weight weight and see if drift is a problem notably nintendo's most recent update the 13.0 0.0 update did seem to fix drift for some prior joycons that were drifting or at least temporarily fix it i'm assuming there were some software calibration corrections taking drift into account which yes you can counter drift with software calibration to a certain degree i assume that's not going to work forever those are usually just band aid fixes uh but when it comes to these i don't have any currently drifting joycon i've repaired all mine and sold them so my conclusion here is that the design of the sticks has not changed at all that doesn't mean the durability hasn't improved at least according to nintendo we're just going to have to wait and see they said switch OLED and any new sold switch today comes with the latest and greatest tech but they specifically mentioned switch OLED for sure latest and greatest joycon tech we'll have to wait and see um over time if these end up drifting as bad as prior joycon obviously they did not specifically talk about drift or mention joycon drift by name because they have a number of lawsuits going on but they did claim they made them more durable time will tell all right folks i'm nintendo robert jance from nintendo prime i'm so glad you're here be sure to tune into my live stream happening a little bit after this video goes out because uh hey we got a lot to talk about um i'm picking up my switch OLED and a copy of metro dread live uh for you guys from my local game stop we'll be at game stop an hour before opening um get a lot of fun chat going it'll be right off my phone we're gonna have a great time you guys are amazing thank you as always for tuning in to nintendo prime and i will catch you guys in the next video