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Kaan Serin

Nintendo Switch 2 owners are ripping apart their new Joy-Cons in record time to check the stick drift situation

Nintendo Switch 2 in dock next to JoyCon controller grip and red backdrop.

The Nintendo Switch 2 hasn't even been out for a full day - heck, Mario Kart World hasn't even installed on mine yet and plenty of other fans are still patiently waiting for their pre-orders to arrive - but some early adopters are taking their new Joy-Cons apart to hopefully suss out if stick drift will be a problem again.

Joy-Con drift was obviously a loud, very public problem during the OG Switch era, causing the analog sticks to quite literally move by themselves whether you're touching them or not. And it's a problem Nintendo's only vaguely addressed in the lead-up to its new handheld console.

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