Of course it is. Unless they switched to hall effect sticks, which they already said they weren't doing. For whatever reason, they still want to save the pennies instead of using the better component even after the previous issues and lawsuits. Why do companies insist on shooting themselves in the foot constantly?

Pennies on one console become millions of pennies on millions of consoles. It's obviously stupid but it's all there is to it.

While Nintendo is absolutely to blame for not fixing the situation, I've heard they were not going for hall effect sticks because of the interference with the joycons magnets. Full disclosure, I have no Switch, Retrodeck Enthusiast here

So they decided that magnetic joycons versus a new rail design were worth another set of drift lawsuits. Because any potential new drift lawsuit is going to cite the old one as clear proof that Nintendo knew what would happen, had the opportunity to change the design so it didn't, and decided to do it again anyway.

'probably' doesn't say a lot. Let's wait and see

Gotta cash in on people buying replacements after 6 months

Stop pushing down so hard on the sticks.

Which is just a footnote to Nintendo's profits. Let's not forget the difference between a 1 Million and 1 Billion is roughly 1 Billion.

Nintendo choosing the option that is actively worse for everyone including themselves goes well with my theory that Nintendo is actually just evil and making decisions based on spite and disdain for their customers and fans.

Bruh, go touch some grass.

You think it is important that the gain is small? For a company like Nintendo, number goes up means great! Number goes slight down, oh noes!

Wht spend pennies when you can sell more conrollers? They know that Nintendo boys don't care about money

“You’re holding it wrong.”

Seems like a really dumb move after how much the previous lawsuit must have cost them. I'm sure they did some kind of cost/benefit analysis, but it's still fucking dumb imo.

They were literally forced to fix/replace broken joycons *for free* because of the drift issue. In case you weren't aware. I sent two sets away to be fixed, all expenses paid. That costs money.

Damn, where were you when Nintendo got sued a few years back? Had they had this airtight defense back then, maybe they wouldn't have had to spend millions of dollars repairing people's broken joy-cons for free.

Probably made more from every schmuck who didn't know they would be replaced for free and bought extra.

Yeah, exactly this. I'm sure they did the math.

> I’m sure they did some kind of cost/benefit analysis, but it’s still fucking dumb imo. The host of what was yesterday the most viewed teardown on YouTube speculated that the string joycon magnets may interfere with hall effect sticks.