According to a Nintendo engineer, the problem of the drift of the Joy-Con of Nintendo Switch will not be never solved, even though the company is fighting us all the time. Drift is the phenomenon that plagues Joy-Con (and not only) for which the controller produces false inputs without even touching the sticks. Nintendo has never directly addressed the issue, at least in public, reiterating the silence before the launch of the Nintendo Switch OLED.
But now he has published a Q&A in which he announced that the new version of the console features Joy-Con improved, which are no longer those of the console released in 2017. He also said that the Joy-Con are continually being refined.
Unfortunately there is also the bad news, because Ko Shiota, the GM of Nintendo’s Technology Development division, has in fact confirmed what many feared, namely that the drift problem will never be completely solved and that the use, with relative consumption of the Joy-Con, it will inevitably end up making it emerge over time.
To make the problem understood, Shiota made a comparison with the tires of the car, which being always in contact with the ground, can only end up wearing out due to the clutch. Nintendo therefore works constantly to improve the situation and make the Joy-Con more resistant, but cannot avoid the consumption from use.
The essence is that the drift problem can be improved, but not completely eliminated and will always tend to re-emerge.