You'll find both consoles on the shelves for the standard $349.99 MSRP (opens in new tab). And now it's upping its game, offering stock of the red and blue model as well. However, only a few have survived to this week.Īmazon has been ahead of everyone - the retailer has consistently offered Nintendo Switch OLED stock over the last few weeks. In the meantime, perhaps one silver lining of not having a Nintendo Switch just yet is that if you wait long enough you may be able to find a newer model that doesn’t have the drift problem.Last week we saw nearly all major retailers offer up more Nintendo Switch OLED stock. Hopefully the Japanese game-maker comes up with a solution soon. Either that or coming up with an actual solution is simply taking Nintendo much longer than anticipated. After all, it may still be cheaper to fix some Joy-Cons than to redesign the controllers to be drift-proof. The Nintendo Switch Lite, which has controllers attached to the system that cannot be removed and yet still suffers from drift issues, is also part of the class-action lawsuit.Ĭlearly, Nintendo is taking this seriously, though given the Switch’s hot in-demand status, it may not be at the forefront of the company’s priorities. However, it’s unclear if those repairs always work in the long-term.
Since the lawsuit was filed, Nintendo began offering free repairs for controllers affected by drift. The lawsuit in question is a class-action lawsuit brought by Nintendo Switch owners against Nintendo in July of 2019 over the Joy-Con drift issue. “We are continuing to aim to improve our products, but as the Joy-Con is the subject of a class-action lawsuit in the United States and this is still a pending issue, we would it like to refrain from responding about any specific actions.” “Regarding the Joy-Con, we apologize for any trouble caused to our customers,” Furukawa said in the statement.
Now Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa has issued an apology for this issue. Not every Switch suffers from drift, but when they do-and they often do-it can make playing a video game an exercise in frustration. It’s known as Joy-Con drift and it’s an incredibly irritating malfunction of the Switch controllers. There’s been one consistent problem with both the Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Switch Lite since the hybrid console was released.
Since we’re already talking about good news, I thought I’d update this post with a little more. Nintendo has finally apologized for Joy-Con drift. Update 6/30: Nintendo President Apologizes For Joy-Con Drift Issues I bet you could find a used Wii U and some great games (like The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Donkey Kong Tropical Freeze and Mario Kart 8) and use it a lot like a Switch when you’re at home.
In the meantime, the PS4 and Xbox One are great consoles in their own right, and even the Wii U has a lot going for it. It’s great to hear that production is back on track and that we will likely see Nintendo Switch back in stock sometime this summer, but the world is defined by uncertainty more than ever these days.Īdd to this the ridiculous level of reselling going on- often people utilize bots to grab up any stock that does pop up at MSRP-and even a new batch of Nintendo Switch consoles could go incredibly fast.Īll I can say is, good luck young padawans.
That second or third wave could impact hardware production as well, so take the good news with some reasonable skepticism.
“Currently, we do not see any impact on software set to go on sale this year,” one Nintendo official said during the meeting, “but there is a possibility that we cannot sell it as scheduled in the event of a second or third wave (of coronavirus infections.)"
In terms of the games themselves, Nintendo is optimistic. We will improve the situation as soon as possible." "We want to deliver (the console) to as many people as possible. "I am sorry for causing trouble to the consumers," Furukawa said. Shareholders pushed back on Furukawa, pointing out that Nintendo has missed an opportunity during this crisis to greatly increase sales, and urging the company to take steps against reselling (which, let’s be honest, we should just call price-gouging at this point).