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Nintendo Says JoyCon Wireless Issues Were Caused By 'Manufacturing Variation'
- Thread starter Interfectum
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"You just got banned for your behavior variation".
DashReindeer
Lead Community Manager, Outpost Games
This is actually a great effort on their part. Since not all Joy Con are affected by this (mine certainly aren't), at least Nintendo is offering to make the necessary fixes free of charge for anyone who finds themselves in this predicament.
Maintenance
Member
One look at a recent Nintendo handheld screen and you'd know that the current QC is shit.
notenoughscarabs
Neo Member
Yeah dude, they did ask me for my serial number when I called
Pie and Beans
Look for me on the local news, I'll be the guy arrested for trying to burn down a Nintendo exec's house.
That's a dodge.
Nintendo no longer the dependable "make it right and then some" manufacturer many still espouse them as.
Nintendo no longer the dependable "make it right and then some" manufacturer many still espouse them as.
RiskyGambit
Neo Member
Has anyone been facing issues with their right joycon at all?
I swear I try to paraglide and wind up falling to my death after tapping x all the way down.
I swear I try to paraglide and wind up falling to my death after tapping x all the way down.
Backfoggen
Banned
Guess I'll send it in after Zelda. Still would have hoped they would send you a new one first like Apple does.
Just send it to Nintendo and save yourself a potential headache
RichiRamjag
Member
How is taking responsibility and handling the issue a dodge? I don't really care about nintendos rep, but as someone who used to hear crazy shit like this from customers, that's a pretty daft thing to say.
People do realize that Nintendo doesn't make the hardware and that the factory is responsible for QA after the initial test batch is made that obviously didn't have the issue when Nintendo tested them, right?
It seems people have no clue of the logistics of how these are made. Nintendo isn't making these out back in a shed somewhere.
At least they're not pretending there's no issues or a very small, negligible amount of people are having problems, like a certain other company did for almost a year. Find that there is a problem, own it, and take care of your consumers; that's the way Nintendo. Good job.
Vampirolol
Member
I'll have to decide when to send mine... probably after Zelda.
Interfectum
Member
They said what was wrong, will repair effected JoyCons and have corrected the issue in manufacturing. What more do you want? Reggie to personally call you and beg your forgiveness?
What are they dodging here?
...I'd have only replied with something about your tag but that'd be an easy blow.
While true they will be seen as responsible.
Its the way of the world. Ask most smartphone manufactures.
RoadHazard
Gold Member
"Small number" my ass. This is way too common among people on this forum, people I know in real life, etc. It's a big issue that they're trying to downplay for obvious reasons.
Makes sense from their part. They want to downplay it as much as possible, so they're just quietly fixing any that people complain about it. Seems that it doesn't effect all left Joycons, and of those it does, only in certain conditions. So they're hoping it doesn't impact most people and just going to avoid the problem going forward.
Herb Alpert
Banned
Yeah i'll remember fondly the "lol what a fucking disaster, almost as bad as RROD" posts when this issue appeared in the hardware review thread.
balladofwindfishes
Member
How so? This isn't really the first time an issue with one of their consoles at release required people to send it in.
Some early Wiis had issues reading dual layer DVDs. A problem that didn't become relevant for several years as no games up to Brawl used two layers.
? I'm sure because there's an global platform now there's a perception that these problems are bigger than what they really are. I think it's just a vocal minority. I'm sure there was manufacturing problems with previous Nintendo systems but they didn't have an internet megaphone.
RoadHazard
Gold Member
Same. Both my Joycon have very noticeable issues. The left one maybe slightly more, but the right one is utter shit too (compared to all other wireless console controllers I've ever owned).
UnemployedVillain
Member
Why does it seem like despite Nintendo addressing this a mere two and half weeks after launch, and providing speedy free repairs, people are still desperately trying to find something to complain about?
Also some of you in here are REALLY bad at coming up with analogies
Also some of you in here are REALLY bad at coming up with analogies
Its not a mistake. Its just means that its a small number of affected controllers, that doesn't warrant a product recall. A faulty controller will still get repaired.
"You said you were going to make dinner."
"Sorry hun, we have oven issues attributable to a manufacturing variation. No widespread effort to make dinner is underway."
Stone Ocean
Member
If it were a common defect we'd probably see a shitstorm.
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Sola Scriptura
Member
So I just got around to opening my launch-day Switch. How do I test to see if the left Joy-Con has this issue?
RichiRamjag
Member
All I had to do with my first set was put my hand behind my back and run forward in zelda. With it back there, he would continue to run on his own. Please note that my other two sets are fine, so yours may be as well. Worth testing though.
Where in the world did you get that from? It says they'll fix them at the end of the quote and people on gaf and Reddit have already had them fixed or replaced.
Sure that's reasonable, but it doesn't take much critical thinking to understand that Nintendo doesn't oversee every unit made. Errors in production runs happen all the time. Sometimes it's an issue, but oftentimes there are issues that cause no adverse effects and don't always get fixed.
Like the dock scratching screens for example. If that's an actual real issue, it probably happened when someone stacked them wrong as they came off the mold and they didn't​ cure properly. It was probably either not noticed or still within specified tolerances so they shipped them instead of scrapping the whole run.
I'm not disagreeing with you, I guess I expect more from people besides just a "lol Nintendo".
Define big issue. It's rather hard to sift through real issues and trolls just using low hanging fruit. From the reviews of the hardware it seemed to be less than 10% of the people saying they had issues. And the majority of those all updated after the firmware update saying that solved the problem.
so fucking wrong
Interfectum
Member
sloppyjoe_gamer
Gold Member
NOLA_Gaffer
Banned
Hooray, you quoted part of their statement!
Still debating between a purchase and return or sending it in to Nintendo, personally.
UnemployedVillain
Member
It's honestly baffling how you were literally not able to get past the very first sentence in the thread. Literally right below that was
Even after the edit...come on
ResidentWeevil13
Member
How about you take another crack at it? I'm sure you'll get it right the second time reading it.
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