Nintendo Has Been Hit With Yet Another Joy-Con Drift Lawsuit
Nintendo has been hit with yet another class-action lawsuit regarding Joy-Con drift.
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Nintendo’s growing pile of Joy-Con drift lawsuits has become even bigger this week after another was added by a Montreal-based law firm.
The Nintendo Switch has been on the market for almost four years and continues to go from strength to strength. The console and its games broke all sorts of records in 2020. However, there’s a shadow hanging over the console and the company that refuses to budge. The accusation that its Joy-Con controllers are subject to drift, and Nintendo is refusing to do anything about it.
That’s what a number of class action lawsuits have alleged. Legal proceedings related to the problem are ongoing in the US, and a number of consumer rights groups across Europe have banded together with the intention of doing the same. Nintendo can now add a class-action lawsuit courtesy of Montreal-based Lambert Avocat to the pile.
The law firm claims its client’s Switch suffered from Joy-Con drift 11 months after buying the console. What’s more, after returning the Joy-Con controllers to Nintendo for repair, which it started offering for free after the first lawsuit was filed, the devices started to drift again two months later. It then happened to a second pair of Joy-Con controllers, and also a Nintendo Switch Pro controller.
If the class action lawsuit goes ahead, then it will seek “to obtain compensation for all Québec consumers who bought the Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Switch Lite gaming systems, as well as Joy-Con and Nintendo Switch Pro controllers.” Providing those products were purchased new and on or after August 1, 2017. That’s despite Joy-Con drift being highlighted as a problem even earlier than that, although it wasn’t thrust into the spotlight until the first lawsuit was filed in 2019.
If you’re lucky enough to have not experienced controller drift, it’s where analog sticks react as if they are being used without being touched. It might sound like nothing to be upset about to some, but depending on the severity of the problem and the game being played, it can completely ruin the gaming experience. Just ask one Redditor whose shiny hunt was ruined by their own Joy-Con drift experience.
Source: Video Games Chronicle
Link Source : https://www.thegamer.com/nintendo-montreal-joy-con-drift-lawsuit/