 So Joycon Drift has been an issue with Switch really some day one there appears to be a design fault with the Joycons themselves. However, what if I were to tell you that it appears this design fault might not be exactly what we thought it was. And that we now have a fix that might be permanent. But we'll get into this in a moment before we do I got to remind you we are giving away a Switch OLED system that's right to win a free switch OLED system all you have to do is be subscribed to the channel and we'll announce the winner in early October. Now there have been a number of people reporting on this and it seems to have originated potentially from a YouTuber called VictorSTK and then further explored in detail by a fantastic quack and we're gonna link both of their videos below I'm also gonna link IGN's guide to this because they have a really good guide on taking apart the Joycon and doing this I currently don't have drifting Joycons so I'm not doing this but I've now seen enough people and know a friend that did it to confirm that this does appear to work. So the problem with Joycon Drift we always thought had to do with something that spawnwave discovered when he broke down the Joycon that is this little metal pad inside the controller that would wear down and get dented and then obviously would lose connectivity and the thing is we thought that well if you just you know go in there with electrical contact cleaner it creates a layer over that pad which fills in the scratches and dents and then enables the controller to continue to work and this is a video I did a long time ago saying hey fix Joycon Drift with electrical contact cleaner and this solution still works although it's not really permanent the one time I did it on a pair of Joycons I did drift back in the day I you know was didn't I had to do it again like a year later and then like six months after that clearly it was just breaking down and wasn't going to keep working forever even though it did extend the life without voiding the warranty by the way of the Joycons because you didn't have to take them apart but if here's the solution now is you do have to take them apart of course which voids your warranty but the big thing here is it appears that maybe the issue the entire time has simply been a pressure one so the solution is so simple you basically take a either a really thin piece of cardboard or say like a business card style cardstock and you essentially cut out a square put it on the back of the actual you know joystick in casing and then put the put the Joycon back together and the drift goes away what this does is create more pressure pushing on the back side of that joystick which I think stabilizes the metal now I don't know if this is again temporary because it's possible if the if the issue is the contact with the metal inside and this pressure just pops the metal out the metal could still wear down or wear off at some point I don't know but it appears that this is a solution for even this has been working even on Joycons where the electrical contact cleaner and other things basically don't work anymore right like people have been doing it you know to the point where hey I'm doing the electrical contact cleaner every day and I get like an hour maybe before it drifts again well they went to this method and it just worked and if this has been the solution the whole time if there's just not a tight enough seal or enough pressure on that component because the component itself bows out or is just really cheaply built which is probably the real reason that is very unfortunate that Nintendo hasn't fixed it because we think about it Nintendo has fixed a lot of other little issues with the controller one issue with the left joycon at launch was it had connectivity issues and wider to have connectivity issues because they ran the antenna for starters the wrong direction and then they ran it across the metal components that ended up just creating interference between your hand of the component and the antenna leading to some connectivity issues and they fixed this rather quickly by just running the antenna up in a different direction towards the front of the controller and that fixed all the connectivity issues so if they were able to do a simple fix like that to fix you know a very you know weird oversight at launch and they were able to obviously add padding inside docks to get rid of all of the scratching that was happening at launch and even some of the warping that was happening with docks that maybe came out of manufacturing that that weren't exactly perfectly shaped then why can't they do such a simple fix as adding something that would cost Nintendo less than like point zero zero zero one of a penny to fix the problem now this is just obviously a more this one be a Nintendo shouldn't just stick a piece of paper in your controller right they could just make the housing a little thicker or make that that bit of plastic have like a little extra you know on each joycon the plastic battery encasing could just have a little bit of an extra millimeter of height or something like that right at that spot to create that extra pressure but this is such an easy fix that we can do at home that I don't understand why Nintendo themselves has just pretty much outright refused to fix this now at this point they have so many pending lawsuits over it there's probably a lot of legal reasons they're avoiding fixing it but this is this is dumb if this has actually been the problem and it's been discovered now four years later that there just isn't enough pressure on that part because it's Boeing or whatever that is absolutely ridiculous and I'm sorry we traditionally know Nintendo for making some of the most high quality devices out there right things that could survive literal falls off of the top of buildings but this is very unfortunate now Nintendo hasn't by the way always been perfect especially with controllers now you guys remember the the control stick on the Nintendo 64 maybe you were lucky and yours never broken got that white dust but that was a very common problem with n64 controllers is they would break and get that white dust and and yeah at that point that would be the controller you hand to your friends will you use the new whatever controller you have their party or or just you know first party controller so that was always uh that was funny because I remember in my house you know we had four controllers and there always be that one person when we're playing four player games like smash uh that would get stuck with the really crappy controller um and I'd always feel bad for them but you know what it is what it is just be happy you get to play smash with me right that at least that's what I thought when I was a kid so yeah I think that this is obviously um you know Nintendo's had issues arguably worse issues I'd argue that n64 controller sticks probably a worse issue with how easy it was to break but yeah I do think that this is unfortunate and I'm not okay that Nintendo has essentially not done anything about it I think that Nintendo does need to be um held the test that if this turns out if we find out a year or two years from now that this solution causes drift to never ever return that one it's really cool we have this solution by the way so you don't have to go out and spend 80 bucks uh to buy another pair or send them off to Nintendo and wait you can just do this because when Nintendo sends you new ones it's just going to happen again so it's good that we have this solution but also it's kind of bullshit so again throughout this video I used clips from IGN's video clips from Fantastic Quacks video and and clips from Victor STK if you want to see their full videos everything link bottom below and we'll specify that the IGN one itself uh is the one that has the actual guide to doing this taking apart joycons by the way isn't as scary as you think as long as you have the proper tools not everyone has the proper tools like the tri-wing you know screwdrivers and all that jazz I happen to have an iFixit kit because I work with electronics so it's not a big deal to me not everyone's going to be comfortable taking apart joycons it can be a bit complex I even think the IGN guide is a bit too thorough I don't even think you need to disconnect the battery to be completely honest but obviously for safety reasons um you know you could disconnect it personally I don't think the battery's powerful enough that you need to worry about it but again um you know that they I would say the way IGN does it is the safe way to do it but it's also a way that creates a bit more effort than I think you need to put into it personally I've done literal shell swaps on joycons I've replaced joysticks in joycons for other people I've done a lot of little repairs like that for for other people switches so um I'm maybe I'm just not being fair here but yeah to me I don't think you need to quite do everything you'll see what steps in the guide that you can make oh yeah maybe you just set the battery on the other side not disconnected oh yeah maybe you don't have to like do anything fancy with the antenna you can just undo you know the screws and just lift up and set back and you'll see anyways folks I am with enter roble jantz from the antenna prime thank you so much for tuning in and I'll catch you in the next video