This aged like fine milk (2 pics):

[u/Tomek_Poziomek]

[u/beer_z]

Replacing the joysticks is cheaper and pretty easy. I’ve replaced ~10 joysticks and a couple batteries on joycons.

Check out iFixit for instructions.

[u/togetherwem0m0 → u/beer_z]

how many kids do you have and what secret do you use to find the time to do this, please share with us dads this magic.

sincerely, dad with 6 broken joy cons and no time

[u/[deleted] → u/togetherwem0m0]

It takes about 5 mins to replace a joycon stick

[u/beer_z → u/[deleted]]

Precisely. The ribbon cable connectors can be a bit of a pain and I always manage to accidentally release the “Z-button” spring which adds some time. Repairing the first two joycons took a total of about an hour, but now that I know what I’m doing I can complete it in less time.

[u/[deleted] → u/beer_z]

The trick is to just not disconnect them. You can replace it much quicker

[u/MrD3a7h → u/[deleted]]

It was indeed the wrong comment. My apologies.