Players will also have to deal with the sticks on the Nintendo Switch 2. Will the developer fix a well-known problem for the new console?
You start a game, don’t touch either of the two sticks – and yet your character moves by itself? This so-called stick drift is a well-known problem that affects PlayStation, Xbox and Switch players alike.
So-called Hall effect sticks could help here – these do not wear out in sensitive areas. A feature that Nintendo might have included in the Switch 2? “The Joy-Con 2 controllers were redesigned from the ground up. There are no Hall effect sticks, but they feel really good,” Nintendo’s product development vice president Nate Bihldorff told nintendolife.
Bihldorff avoids specific question
When asked specifically about the drift problem, he avoided the question. Instead, he praised the new Pro Controller sticks as “very quiet” and spoke generally of improvements in “interaction with the game or durability”. So will users of the Nintendo Switch 2 have to deal with drifting sticks again? What exactly “durability” means was not explained by Bihldorff.
The new console will be released on June 5. Pre-orders start in this country on April 8 – in the US, they have been stopped due to the punitive tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump.
As a stand-alone product, the Switch costs 2,470 euros, or 510 euros in a bundle with the new Mario Kart World. However, the console’s flagship game has not only sparked euphoria in the community. Above all, the price has caused outrage. The digital version of the game already costs 80 euros. If you want a physical copy, you have to pay another ten euros.
