Every user experience is unique until a Nintendo Switch is placed into your hands and, a short time later, you join the club of those who have experienced Joy-Con drift. Jokes aside, it is no secret that the controllers for the first version of Nintendo’s hybrid console have suffered from immense drift issues over the years – and it seems the French authorities are not happy about it.
Even though Nintendo is already moving into a new era with the acclaimed Nintendo Switch 2, France has just slapped the company with a fine following a national investigation regarding the persistent joystick issues on the original model.
Deceptive Practices, Says France
According to reports shared by French newspaper Le Monde, a penalty was officially issued by the country's consumer protection authorities, the Directorate General for Competition Policy, Consumer Affairs and Fraud Control (DGCCRF), which deemed Nintendo’s handling of the hardware flaws over the years entirely inadequate.
The French defense argues that Nintendo had clear knowledge of the defects as early as 2018, and, despite this awareness, concrete measures to address the problem only began to surface around 2020, two years after its original launch. That way, they classify Nintendo’s conduct regarding...
