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Force them to do a recall and replace the damn things with ones that don’t get fucked after only a few months of use.
Didn’t they already do that like 10 years ago? In the US they didn’t do a recall per se but they offered to replace them for free.
No, not “and replace the damn things with ones that don’t get fucked after only a few months of use.” They replaced them with them same things.
Also the Switch came out 9 years ago…
Nintendo has decided to run with the idea of “hey, just buy it again”, company-wide.
Don’t forget the Switch 2 also uses potentiometer sticks again. Not Hall Effect or TMR. Supposedly because the magnets for the joycons cause issues… Even though there was definitely more complaints and issues with sticks than the slide rails on the first version so switching to magnets for the joycon connections wasn’t necessary at all.
And other controllers with magnetic connections don’t have issues with their Hall Effect or TMR sticks.
So this fine is being paid to… The French government?
Look, I’m all for trying to punish the corporation for bad practices, but that money should be distributed to the people impacted by those practices, i.e. Joycon owners. Not disappear into the pockets of a regulatory board who had largely nothing to do with this situation and just sees an easy opportunity to profit.
Fines go to governments, you gotta sue to get paid.
I’ve wasted a ton of money on joycons at this point and frankly I don’t mind not getting reimbursed if the fines actually stopped companies from shit practices. I don’t think this is a big enough fine to stop Nintendo from charging a stupid amount for something that is known not to last.
Look into hall effect Joy con stick replacements. They use a different mechanism that doesn’t have the same drift issues, and aren’t that hard to install.
That’s how fines work. The money gets used to pay public employees, expand those programs, public services and so on.
2025 Q1 Revenue were 572.3 billion Japanese yen ($3.8 billion). This fine is 1%.
Edit. Q1. Link
This gentle caressing to the wrist won’t even break a Joycon. ACTUALLY punish these fucks and help us, the consumers, who paid for faulty toys.
Sorry capitalism said no
Dang. Well, if an angry comment on Lemmy won’t destroy capitalism, I give up.
Oh no another fraud conviction fine that equals a rounding error for the company.
And still nothing done about the ps5 comtrollers…
What a mouthful of a name.
France’s equivalent of the Federal Trade Commission, Direction Générale de la Concurrence, de la Consommation et de la Répression des Fraudes
And you call us Germans out for our long words …
In German, wouldn’t that all be one word?
Yes and therefore it would be shorter.
For anyone who is stuck with stick drift and isn’t in the French government and thus can’t use this to get their JoyCons repaired, you can get TMR joysticks for Switch and Switch 2 JoyCons for like $20-$30. Like Hall effect but better!
Ooh, $30 more for the $90 controllers to work? The ones that have had this problem for a literal decade? And I have to install them myself? Where do I sign!?
