And what is with the PRO Controller?

So we PRO users need to start a class action lawsuit on our own.

I'm sure that in their upcoming earnings report they will most likely have some kind of impairment charge for the cost to fix these and money aside for the class action lawsuit that is still moving forward.

Also, there is no mention of an actual fix for the Joy-con itself, the current Switch model, upcoming Switch Lite or new Switch original model that prevents this problem from happening again...but it's good to see they are taking some kind of action.

None of my joy-cons have ever had "stiff" sticks. There was always some level of wobble to them, unlike the pro controller's joystick. I imagine the "drift" people are referring to is something I haven't yet experienced, but probably will at some point. I remember my early Gamecube controllers all suffered from this problem, and the little "circular grippy pattern" on the surface of the joysticks would also rub off. Gamecube controllers that I purchased later in the lifecycle of the console never had this problem, so I assume Nintendo fixed it.

I've always felt the joy con sticks were too small and flimsy for my liking, but in the interests of keeping the console slim, maybe that was a compromise that had to be made. The sticks don't have as much range of motion as most traditional controllers would have with a joy stick.

I have been experiencing this weird issue lately while playing Streets of Rogue where my character will start walking to the left when playing as P2 in a local co-op game. I swapped my joy cons and the problem persisted, so I'm not sure if it's a problem with the game or maybe I'm not fully understanding the controls. I guess I just haven't looked into it enough to figure out what's happening as I haven't noticed it yet with other games.

(Edit: also, anyone elses' VGC session get killed around 8:40 am CST? I'm pretty sure I didn't log out... Just curious)

Sadly there's no official customer support in my country and the distributor has very bad reputation here, RIP my drifting joycon.

As it is a wear problem and much more people play with Joycons I am not surprised most people apply this problem to the Joycons. Heck, most people probably don't even own Pro-controllers.

There's no doubt about that. The entire point of the lawsuit in general was just to bring emphasis to the situation, to add to the noise as you called it. Nintendo would've easily won that battle, but they would've lost the war as a result. Thanks to the lawsuit, and just how much of the Internet and gaming communities in general is buzzing about the drift issue, Nintendo was at risk of the Switch being forever remembered for drift.

Now that they're fixing it for free, though, that's going to help, and if they put a permanent fix (or at least a better design) in place, it should prevent drift from being anything more than a side-note in the Switch's history.

My lesser-used Joy-Con is the one that has drift, and the Pro controller has an entirely different analog construction. I have indeed heard of a few Pro controller owners having issues, but nowhere near as many. I certainly haven't ever experienced it with mine.

Not to say it's not an issue there, but it doesn't seem to be anywhere near as widespread, and it certainly isn't as bad for publicity, so I doubt it'll ever see a "free fix" situation. Though Nintendo may do it at a discounted rate, at least.

Can now confirm that Nintendo is covering shipping costs as well, because I just received my UPS shipping label in my email a few minutes ago.

I haven't experienced drift with the stand alone joy con. However, if I plug in a wired controller to play it on a stand, the drift happens nearly every time. Mind you, that's IF the console is powered on BEFORE I plug the controller in.