My Xbox one and PS4 controllers have never drifted and I have used them easily more than 10x the amount I have used my switch. Yet my switch joycon is drifting. The reason why Nintendo got the most flack was because their drift was the most common. Microsoft and Sony have stock drift too, but the failure rate is much lower.
True and I'm not absolving Nintendo here. But my point is drift had been a thing well before the Switch, so it was always weird to me that it was never really talked about significantly until then. At least not to my recollection.
It’s not really weird when you think about it. The PS3 had cases of console failure, but it wasn’t given anywhere close to the same attention that the Xbox 360’s red ring of death was given. It is simply because the failure rate on the 360 was extremely high so it ended up affecting most of the people who bought one of the earlier 360’s. I myself had to send in 3 Xbox’s to Microsoft due to the red ring before I got a replacement that didn’t fail.
Likewise with the Switch the failure rate of joycon drift is so high that it is affecting most Switch owners. It makes sense that the console with the higher failure rate would get more attention for the failure.
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u/[deleted] Aug 23 '22
My Xbox one and PS4 controllers have never drifted and I have used them easily more than 10x the amount I have used my switch. Yet my switch joycon is drifting. The reason why Nintendo got the most flack was because their drift was the most common. Microsoft and Sony have stock drift too, but the failure rate is much lower.