Nintendo of Europe and Nintendo UK have now officially honored the Joy-Con Drift, unlike Nintendo of America, which started making Joy-Con fixes for free many times ago. The sanctioned Nintendo support runner now informs guests that they will repair out-of-bond Joy-Cons free of charge. However, in EEA, UK, If your Joy-Cons come unresponsive or suffer from the ignominious Joy-Con drift.
Drift towards Europe
For a while, Nintendo has taken a quiet approach to Switch’s “Joy-Con drift” tackle issues. Ultimately, the number of affected consumers reached a critical mass and they had to respond by offering free repairs. Although Europe and the UK do this on a case-by-case basis (and not inescapably out of bond), this is now changing with a larger, more comprehensive statement on the Nintendo EU support runners. In other words, the UK and Europe are getting a little sweetener starting this month.
Nintendo indeed calls it “Response Pattern” or “contended drift” on their sanctioned website(ha!). This is how you can fix it if you live in the below areas.
Nintendo of Europe is running another one-week free trial for Switch Online
This week, Nintendo of Europe twittered that they are extending the Switch Online trial period by one week. The perk is available until April 2nd at 7 pm.M. ET and it’ll work indeed if you have formerly redeemed the available value last week.
