Nintendo has confirmed that Change 2’s Pleasure-Cons is not going to use Corridor Impact thumbsticks regardless of all of the stick drift points Change house owners have put up with for the reason that console launched in 2017.
For years now Change house owners have skilled points with their Pleasure-Con sticks shifting incorrectly or with none enter. This “stick drift” downside has value Nintendo some huge cash and aggravated many gamers. One answer to this downside is to make use of Corridor Impact thumbsticks which might be mainly immune to drifting as they use magnetic fields and are much less inclined to components sporting down and failing over time. Sadly, Nintendo isn’t utilizing Corridor Impact sticks for the Change 2 Pleasure-Cons and that has quite a lot of followers nervous.
In a current interview with Nintendo Life, Nate Bihldorff, senior vp of product improvement & publishing at Nintendo of America, confirmed that the Change 2 doesn’t use Corridor Impact sticks.
“Effectively, the Pleasure-Con 2’s controllers have been designed from the bottom up. They’re not Corridor Impact sticks, however they really feel actually good,” stated Bihldorff.
Bihldorff additional defined that the sticks on the Professional Contoller are very quiet and really feel nice, however didn’t specify if they’re Corridor Impact thumbsticks or not. Based mostly on the truth that Bihldorff’s media coaching kicked in when requested about stick drift (a damaging matter) and he pivoted to one thing associated, however constructive, I’m guessing the Professional Controller additionally doesn’t have Corridor Impact sticks.
The VP did reiterate one thing Nintendo beforehand confirmed, which is that the Pleasure-Con 2 controllers have been fully redesigned from the bottom up.
“As you could have witnessed and felt, the brand new Pleasure-Con 2 controllers for the Nintendo Change 2 have been actually designed from the bottom up from scratch, they usually have been designed to have greater motion and smoother motion,” stated Change 2 {hardware} design lead Tetsuya Sasaki final week throughout a press occasion.
That’s good and all, however in the event you take a look at the replies to Nintendo Life’s tweet in regards to the lack of Corridor Impact sticks, you possibly can see lots of people who’re anxious that the Change 2 will likely be plagued with stick drift points. This information, coupled with excessive costs, delayed pre-orders, and questions on what’s included in a Change 2 bodily sport case, have actually overshadowed what was probably presupposed to be an enormous, enjoyable reveal for Nintendo. It is going to be fascinating to see how the corporate navigates the present storm.