{"id":175839,"date":"2025-06-11T14:08:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T14:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/175839\/"},"modified":"2025-06-11T14:08:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T14:08:11","slug":"magnetic-joy-con-sticks-already-in-the-works-for-switch-2-amid-fears-of-drift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/175839\/","title":{"rendered":"Magnetic Joy-Con Sticks Already In The Works For Switch 2 Amid Fears Of Drift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Joy-Con 2\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/64b5e14804dbd\/joy-con-2.large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/joy-con-2.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"490\" alt=\"Joy-Con 2\"\/><\/a>Image: Zion Grassl \/ Nintendo Life<\/p>\n<p>A few days back, the online repair community iFixit <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/iFixit\/status\/1930781813770727437\">posted a brief teardown<\/a> of the new Switch 2 Joy-Con and confirmed that the sticks are nearly identical to the Switch 1 in terms of how they&#8217;ve been built.<\/p>\n<p>Naturally, then, this has caused a bit of kerfuffle with fans; many of which are understandably concerned that Joy-Con drift will continue to be a major issue for the Switch 2.<\/p>\n<p>So much so, in fact, that GuliKit \u2013 a company that specialises in the production of hall effect and TMR joysticks \u2013 has confirmed it is hard at work on producing replacement sticks for the Switch 2.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" align=\"center\"><p>Yes, still stick drift issue sooner or later somehow. We are working hard on the magnetic joystick replacement.Stay tuned! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Stickdrift?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Stickdrift<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Magneticjoystick?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Magneticjoystick<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NintendoSwitch2?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#NintendoSwitch2<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/efScYqATxY\">https:\/\/t.co\/efScYqATxY<\/a>\u2014 GuliKit (@GuliKitDesign) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GuliKitDesign\/status\/1932377931441217730?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 10, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Stick drift had plagued the original Switch during its (ongoing) lifespan, with Nintendo facing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2024\/05\/switch-joy-con-drift-class-action-lawsuit-dismissed-after-five-years\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">numerous lawsuits over the issue<\/a>. Here at Nintendo Life, we&#8217;ve had staff members burn through several Joy-Con controllers thanks to drifting, so it&#8217;s definitely a pretty widespread issue.<\/p>\n<p>With the Switch 2 still in its infancy, it&#8217;s hard to know at this stage whether Joy-Con drift will continue to be a major problem, but it&#8217;s one we&#8217;ll be keeping a close eye on in the coming months and years.<\/p>\n<p>Do you reckon the Switch 2 will suffer from the same drifitng issues as its predecessor? Leave a comment down below with your thoughts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text source\">[source <a class=\"external\" title=\"External Link: https:\/\/x.com\/GuliKitDesign\/status\/1932377931441217730\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/GuliKitDesign\/status\/1932377931441217730\">x.com<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"avatar\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/1743559691_246_avatar.jpg\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Ollie Reynolds\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Nintendo Life\u2019s resident horror fanatic, when he\u2019s not knee-deep in Resident Evil and Silent Hill lore, Ollie likes to dive into a good horror book while nursing a lovely cup of tea. He also enjoys long walks and listens to everything from TOOL to Chuck Berry.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Image: Zion Grassl \/ Nintendo Life A few days back, the online repair community iFixit posted a brief&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":175840,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[2928,270,53,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-175839","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-hardware","9":"tag-nintendo-switch-2","10":"tag-technology","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114665128232501197","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}