COKTOE said:
-RROD was quite widespread. It was well documented. Word of mouth was in play. It didn't seem to have much impact on sales. People roll over for all kinds of things, and take all kinds of crap from companies that some of us would not tolerate. It was a series of poor, drift-riddled controllers that was a catalyst for me giving up on the 360. -Anecdotal in the extreme. There's plenty of discourse on the topic. From websites, to fans, to fanboys. The fact that you don't hear anyone talking about it doesn't mean much as it pertains to the situation at large. Here are a couple articles from the Chartz: https://www.vgchartz.com/article/444265/nintendo-president-apologizes-for-joy-con-drift-issues/ Some good comments in this one. Top comment from snyps is interesting. I get the feeling he's not lying about working at Nintendo Of America customer support, and the frequency of Joy-Con drift calls they were getting. And another: https://www.vgchartz.com/article/439554/nintendo-responds-to-switch-joy-con-drift-problem/ Here's one of the threads here on the topic. https://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread/240593/joycon-drift/1/ This is a good one because there's lots of discussion among members who are legit Switch owners. There were 57 members who mentioned whether or not they had any joy con issues. 51 had problems of some sort. 6 did not. Of the 51 members with problems, 48 were drifting joy cons, 1 had a drifting pro controller, 1 had a right joy con that no longer worked independently, and 1 had an L button that didn't work. The drifting joy con problem of the 48 ranged from a one time occurrence, to multiple instances. One of the 51 had 3 Switches, all with drifting joy cons. 1 for himself, and 2 more for his children. Of the 6 that reported no problems, one mentioned both his nieces had drifting joy cons, one estimated his usage of the console at 10-20 hours, and another said simply " I don't use it much". You participated in that thread incidentally, and were one of the 4 people who reported no problems whatsoever and didn't also attach a caveat of limited usage. Now, I'm not going to spam this post with links to every website that has covered the topic, but I will leave this link to a poll at Nintendolife, that the registered members at that site participated in, where 74% of the votes indicated joy con drift was something they encountered. https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2019/07/poll_have_your_joy-con_been_drifting Great might be stretching it. Especially now that there is a sku that binds the still malfunctioning sticks to a portable-only console, making it a true hardware issue. Anywhooo, have a good one man |
I didn't say no one has the issue, I just said I don't hardly see anyone talking about it. I know of the threads on this website but that isn't indicative of what the majority of people that bought the product experience. When products work, hardly one goes to forums to talk about it, it's when they don't work that people get riled up and post something online.
For the record, I'm not denying that some % of the Switch population have the issues, and I'm certainly not denying their right for a refund or fix/repair, I'm just questioning how many out of the roughly 80 million Switches out there have this problem. If it were millions I suspect there would be a lot more websites covering it, the big dog websites that only cover major topics. Has CNN, Fox, NBC, etc. covered this or just some gaming websites that have little traffic? Genuine question I have.
The ring of death was everywhere when that happened to Xbox. I'm curious how many people the drift on Switch happens compared to that.
