 Hey everyone, it's been a hot minute Weeks, I guess since we've done a standalone video. I'm back. How's it going Nathaniel Ruffles answer from Nintendo Prime? It kind of sucks that I'm coming back with this sort of topic because it's not something that I Often want to talk about. There's a lot of positives going out there in the world of Nintendo We have what for like the last four exclusive games that released on Nintendo switch are all in the high 80s And giving switch the best exclusive lineup of games this year and maybe even topping off the best exclusive Library of this entire generation if you consider switch part of the PlayStation 4 and Xbox one generation I know there's debates. Maybe it's not part of that. Maybe it's part of PlayStation 5, etc I'm not here to really determine that but it's interesting when you look at all the positivity out there The switch light just came out and people seem to be pretty excited about it But one thing about the switch light came about that has people a little concerned because Joy-Con drift has been an issue for quite some time In all of the joy cons that I basically ever released I personally have experienced joy-con drift and three different joy-cons Which is basically where you don't touch the stick and the character moves or the camera moves or whatever Basically the controllers act like you're pushing the stick in a certain direction that you're not and that is joy-con drift It's just unresponsive controls or overly responsive overly sensitive Hope whatever you want to consider them and we discovered thanks to people like spawnwave who did breakdowns of the joysticks Why this is happening? It has something to do with the graphite pads. It rubs on being Extremely susceptible to damage and wear and tear Leading to grooves and once the grooves occur things aren't accurate anymore inside the actual control stick And we had hoped of course that this would be fixed with the switch revision You know the one that comes in the red box with the seven plus hour battery life and then that came out and it turned out No, those joy cons aren't fixed either now There is new sets of joy cons coming out here in October and maybe those sets will be fixed But it doesn't really look that likely because the switch light is now out in the wild And it turns out that the exact same mechanism of the joysticks are also in the switch light now We couldn't confirm that it would necessarily lead to joy con drift at the time or control or drift because I guess these aren't joy cons We couldn't really confirm that it would lead to this Because obviously just because it's the same design doesn't mean it'll have the same flaw because they could just use a different type of Metal a different type of material that's much more durable and less susceptible to getting a groove in it and creating drift That was the hope that was the the great hope out there is that yeah Just because the same design doesn't mean it has the same flaw. Well today Just look at this now as you can see the right joystick on this particular person's You know switch light is showing drifting issues and there have been a couple not a lot But a couple media members out there Such as the you know Zach over at switch force that have noted that they've kind of experienced some drift at times as well It does not seem to be super widespread just yet But the system just came out and if you know anything about joy con drift you when you buy a brand new switch The joy con drift problem doesn't happen right away It just happens over the course of several weeks or months It kind of depends on how long you're playing a form or any hours you're logging in etc It's just wear and tear right it just happens over time So you don't expect to hear a lot of stories about people switch lights having drifting right now But the fact that there's even one One right now where we are just like three days out from when the system launched and there's even one out there showing this problem Kind of gives us pause to think this could happen to all of them again It's something we're not gonna know for sure for you know many months You know maybe even a year down the road before we started to see several systems with drifting issues But it definitely appears that the joystick has the exact same issue that the current ones do inside the normal joy con so This is just obviously a big problem and it sucks that Nintendo themselves has sort of failed to address it now We do know that obviously Nintendo America Internally has recognized the joy con drift is an issue and they will fix it for free for anyone And maybe that extends to switch light as well. We don't know But the only reason we even know that the internally they have recognized It's a problem at Nintendo of America only by the way This isn't governed in any other place. No one else gets free repairs on this especially out of warranty The only reason we even know that Nintendo has recognized it as a problem is because An internal email leaked Nintendo has not yet not even once said one thing publicly acknowledging the joy con directors issue even though they have acknowledged it Internally that's a problem and that's a huge problem when a new product is coming out that uses the exact same joysticks So obviously this is a big pause for concern if you were considering buying to switch light I can understand why this might make you be like, oh, I don't know. Maybe I shouldn't obviously if you don't mind doing repairs yourself You could replace the joystick I'm sure it's not that difficult to replace because it's not super difficult to replace inside a joy con either Obviously we talked in the past what electrical contact cleaner is a good way to actually extend the life of your joystick because it kind of creates a Coding over the mechanism and lets it last a little longer without issue But again, all of that's extracurricular stuff that we as consumers shouldn't have to do and obviously this person that's having drift right now Can send it into the Nintendo. It's under warranty. It'll be fixed But this is obviously a concerning thing and it sucks that although Nintendo of America's recognized it internally Nintendo has not recognized it publicly and on top of that that they use the same design in the switch light It makes you wonder, you know, even though Nintendo's recognized it internally When did they actually realize it was a problem? It was it only recently and if it's only recently well, they obviously already had switch lights in production So is it possible that the switch lights we get this year are gonna have issues? But the switch lights we get you know starting next year will be different because there'll be different production runs And they will affix the problem. I don't know I mean, we're still waiting for it to get fixed in newer joy cons let alone in like an actual new device. So This is just extremely disappointing and it brings negativity at a time when Nintendo has a lot going for them I mean the switch lights only two hundred dollars That's gonna be a very appealing price point and it has a lot of redeeming qualities to that I understand there's no TV output and that's a shame for some But for those who just don't care looking to replace their 3ds and have all those console quality games with them And don't care about the TV. It's it's actually pretty good and it's solid It's got great build quality some people actually like holding it better than the normal switch because there's no joy-con wobble or anything And I had it comes with a d-pad and that's a big plus for some people So I honestly think the switch light has a lot going for it and then Nintendo has a lot going for them You know, I just talked about the last four major releases all being among the best rated games of this year They're not done yet. They have Luigi's Mansion 3 coming out next month. They have Pokemon Sword and shield coming out the month after that and we can get into, you know, the the Ring Fit adventure And that experimental workout kind of thing. They're doing in December. We could talk about Mario Sonic at the Olympic games These are those that I think are gonna be as highly regarded as a Luigi's Mansion 3 or a Pokemon or you know The more recently Link's Awakening release, but still that's a ton of high quality products in a short time span and Nintendo's gonna have a ton of momentum going into the holidays because Nintendo has dominated sales worldwide This year because PlayStation 4 and Xbox are kind of going like this as everyone kind of anticipates the next generation being announced in releasing next year and obviously Google Stadia, you know has like if you buy the pre-access pack or whatever. It's a starter pack I can't even know what it's called. It's really expensive like 130 bucks I don't know It's like 130 bucks and comes with a controller I think and all that and you can like gift like three months to somebody of the pro membership I don't know that comes out in like November, but I I'm personally Sorry to have my comeback video be a bit of negativity surrounding Nintendo and I sincerely hope that they address this at some point I understand from a marketing perspective. There's no way in hell. Nintendo's gonna recognize this now They're heading into the holidays. They don't want to be talking publicly and making a big hullabaloo about this But I sincerely hope that they address it and sincerely hope they announce publicly They will fix all of them for free forever for you know the lifetime of the platform until they stop producing them I really hope that Nintendo does the right thing here, which they have kind of done in in you know North America Without publicly announcing that they've done it because we got a leaked email And then obviously people proving by taking advantage of the fact that that email said they would fix it And getting it fixed out of warranty. So I I'm just I'm sorry guys To be such kind of a downer today, but it's all right. I'm just glad to be back Thank you guys so much for tuning in if you're looking for an update video by the way on my health situation all that Stay tuned. I think I might have one coming out later today since there's no live stream But yeah, you guys just stay tuned for that and I'll catch all of you in the next video