Days after its official announcement, the Nintendo Switch 2 Keep giving what to talk about. The next console of the Japanese company will reveal all its secrets on April 2, but the leaks about some of its characteristics do not cease.
One of the most recent states that the device will resolve the most annoying failure of the original version: drift, or Driftof the Joy-with.
According to him Leaker Nexthandheld, Nintendo has decided to give the switch 2 of HALL EFFECT SENSORS. If this is confirmed, the Drift of the Joy-with will be a thing of the past. An interesting point to consider is that the filter in question shared this data, along with several others on the new console, through Reddit and did not pay attention.
In fact, on December 25 he shared in X (Twitter) a photo of what appeared to be a prototype of the Switch 2 without the connected joy. At first he was classified as false, although the presentation video of the Nintendo Switch 2 ended up confirming its veracity.
The information corresponding to the Joysticks of Effect Hall would have arisen from the disassembly of the Nintendo Switch 2, or from a functional prototype, at least. Other novelties of the joy-with that are detached from the same filtration are that SL and SR buttons are metal «I had a long time rumored,» and what The triggers (ZL and ZR) would not be analogical.
Nintendo Switch 2 would use hall effect levers to end the Drift of the Joy-Con
He Drift It is a problem that has stalked the Joy-Con since the debut of the Nintendo Switch in 2017. The failure began to become evident among users in mid-2019, which resulted in demands such as the one that Nintendo suffered in Europe at the beginning of 2021. The matter climbed to such a level that in 2023 the company announced that it would repair free controls that suffered from this inconvenience in the European Economic Space, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, even if they no longer had guarantee.
The adoption of levers with hall effect sensors in the Nintendo Switch 2 appears to be the logical decision to end the Drift of the Joy-Con. This type of technology has begun to earn an important place in the segment of portable consoles, by the hands of referents such as Ayaneo Next and Next Liteor the renewed MSI Clawto cite some examples.
Joysticks with hall effect sensors They use a contactless electromagnetic systemwhich makes them more durable than the levers that use potentiometers to detect their location of physical shape. He Drift Of the Joy-Con of the original switch is a problem that Nintendo itself acknowledged that it could never definitely solve; at least with the system that had been chosen for those Sticks.
We will see if by the hand of the Nintendo Switch 2 the drift becomes a problem of the past, or if the players will have to deploy homemade tricks so as not to suffer so much. The next April 2 We will have more details about it.
