Animal crossing and Joycon drift

[DarkSlayer1331]

mine started "sticking" a few months ago. maybe september, i'm not sure, which is total garbage since i bought my lite brand new in march. holding the left stick down didn't register fully and my character would stutter in her walking cycle, between slow and fast. re-calibrating the stick worked for a little while but stopped having an effect these past few weeks. now i have to blow into/under the stick before i play and that's been working so far.

this morning, my ac character finally moved on her own. stick was working fine for a good five minutes and then, out of nowhere, the character started slowly walking right on her own. blowing didn't work and i had to somewhat aggressively rotate the stick a couple of times before it stopped. fortunately it hasn't been an issue again so far today but i don't doubt it will resurface again which sucks.

since it's a lite, i can't just send in the controller and i don't really want to send in my device for repair (if i even can for free) because turnover time is said to be like 2-3 weeks, during which i obviously wouldn't be able to play, and i don't want to go third party in case they accidentally break my device or wipe my data. (which is also why i don't want to send it to nintendo themselves tbh.) £200 for a console they know is defective and barely lasted half a year is such trash.

Yeah, it will come back up as a problem. I have to aggressively rotate my stick to get it to work properly, but it'll pop back up in the same play, and I only play for about 30 minutes at a time. Now luckily mine isn't as huge of a problem for me. It's a very subtle drift (my character will just start walking VERY slowly to the left) and it doesn't take too much to "fix" it, even if that fix is very temporary. The only reason I haven't gotten new joy cons is because I got the mint green animal crossing skin when NH came out, and the drift started happening in late April to early May. I just like the skin so much!!!

 

[Yarbo]

Guys, the joy con drift is easy to repair. Read my previous I'm proud of Nintendo, right now there is bill being pushed for companies to make their products ease to repair. Nintendo has been user friendly with joyc at least. Microsoft just jumped onto the repairable act recently, which is awesome.

It's easy and something fun to do to improve your gaming without going broke.

 

[Peach_Jam]

I have a question! If I were to try and repair my joycon myself, would the issue eventually return? basically, I want to know if there's a permanent solution or if the drift will keep returning no matter what is done.

 

[Monokuma73]

Guys, the joy con drift is easy to repair. Read my previous I'm proud of Nintendo, right now there is bill being pushed for companies to make their products ease to repair. Nintendo has been user friendly with joyc at least. Microsoft just jumped onto the repairable act recently, which is awesome.

It's easy and something fun to do to improve your gaming without going broke.

I'm not denying, but I will not try this, before anything happens, so I can't "repair in advance". The fact stands, joy-cons have problems and it's not rare, not unusual.
I can't compare joy-con's life time to PS4 or XBOX ONE neither PS5 not new XBOX controllers - so I can't justify if controllers are good or bad.

 

[FraudulentDimetrodon]

I have a question! If I were to try and repair my joycon myself, would the issue eventually return? basically, I want to know if there's a permanent solution or if the drift will keep returning no matter what is done.

There's no guarantee that replacing the joysticks is a permanent solution. No one knows/can know exactly why Joy-Cons have such a high rate of drifting, but most people are thinking that it's an inherent hardware design flaw of some kind. So any replacements have a chance of drifting in the future. It's possible that you'll get lucky and the new joysticks won't drift, or you'll get unlucky and they'll start drifting too; there's no way to know for sure.

 

[Airysuit]

I had this problem too and send my joycon to nintendo 2 weeks ago and got it back last friday, without charge, not even shipping costs.
So I would definitely suggest doing that!
I hadn't played handheld in a long time and now i can finally do that again without any drift!

I live in western europe and didn't have any warranty.

 

[visibleghost]

i haven't had any drift on either of my joy cons and i have played with them for years. i know the day will come when the joy con drift starts and it just sucks a lot. i wish it wasn't an issue, i can only imagine how annoying it would be, i could see myself lose interest in playing if my joy cons were wonky and drifted a lot.

 

[Lynnatchii]

I played everyday, like, EVERYDAY. I don't remember when it's started, but it's pretty bad. At first I didn't realize it was drifting, i thought it was something else. I didn't even care. But it get worse and worse to the point that I gave up playing animal crossing. But, i played it again with a different Joycon and i really hope that it won't drift

 

[Romaki]

I have 4 joy-cons and never played for more than like 5 hours a day. None of them started drifting so far. It would suck if that was the issue tho.

 

[bestfriendsally]

i have 2 sets of joy-cons that came with my switch... maybe i should use the other set now

it's kinda bugging me, now, the drift...
it's effecting okami now, a game, for me, that needs more or less stillness
ammy's running everywhere, almost all the time, when i'm trying to get her to stop running...

& her celestial brush get stuck.... when it wasn't before



*also.. if this thread is old, i'm sorry for the post*

 

[AssassinVicz]

I’ve only experienced joy con drift once on the left joycon. It start a couple of months after purchasing it in April. It was small at first, maybe a little run to the side but moving the joystick stopped it. When it got worse, it was sent back to Nintendo to fix and I’ve never had an issue with it since.

The right joycon has started to do light drifting, after a year of owning it. Then the two we bought before we got the switch, are both fine and haven’t drifted at all.

I just believe it’s just luck Whether your joycon will get the dreaded drift.

 

[AccfSally]

Yeah, I have it on my left joycon/joystick on my Switch lite.
But it only happens when I'm playing Animal Crossing, haven't have this problem with my other games for some reason.

 

[bestfriendsally]

Yeah, I have it on my left joycon/joystick on my Switch lite.
But it only happens when I'm playing Animal Crossing, haven't have this problem with my other games for some reason.

same happens with me, on my switch...
it's really starting to annoy me, now...

my right joycon's fine, though :>



but i have another left joycon... i wonder if i should use that one...

 

[smug villager]

My JoyCon drift worsened to the point that the game was unplayable. I ended up having to suck it up and drop like $30 on one of those cheap pro-controllers. It's not ideal but it's better than before.

It's genuinely so frustrating.

 

[Xara]

the joycon/joystick drift on my switch lite has gotten so bad, man. it only affects the left one, and i’m not sure what it’d be like with other games since i only own new horizons, but it’s frustrating as hell regardless lol. it also makes me anxious whenever i do trades, because if i’m not careful, my island rep will slowly start moving and i don’t want anyone to think that i’m about to wander off while on their island. :/

 

[Aquilla]

This happened with my joy-cons a few months after I started playing and it was exactly the same development as yours. Only a few steps, then my character would walk left by herself and at one point I couldn't really walk at all. Since my joycons still had warranty I sent them in for repair. Everything was free, shipping as well. My joy-cons came back within the same week! I suggest you try and contact nintendo or fill out a ticket.

 

[buginski]

I've had my switch and the same pair of joycons since 2017. They've been drifting for years now, and any game with a completely moveable camera is unplayable.
I'm extremely stubborn and won't be buying any new joycons until nintendo stops using the cheap sticks that are causing the issue. I have a feeling they never will though.

 

[PacV]

Does Nintendo address the Drift problem?

 

[Peach_Jam]

Joycon drift is so frustrating. I tried fixing it myself but it would eventually come back. After nearly a year of dealing with it, I decided to just buy another pair of controllers and have had no issues so far, though I'm sure the same problem will happen with this new pair eventually ;~; the switch needs a redesign tbh.

 

[Millysaurusrexjr]

My drift has started to get even worse, I could barely get my character to stand still for a picture! Might have to hit up Nintendo for a replacement.

Has anyone tried this?