{"id":100569,"date":"2019-09-21T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-21T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/09\/switch_lite_teardown_suggests_it_has_the_same_drift-prone_analogue_sticks_as_standard_model"},"modified":"2019-09-21T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-09-21T16:00:00","slug":"switch-lite-teardown-suggests-it-has-the-same-drift-prone-analogue-sticks-as-standard-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/09\/21\/switch-lite-teardown-suggests-it-has-the-same-drift-prone-analogue-sticks-as-standard-model\/","title":{"rendered":"Switch Lite Teardown Suggests It Has The Same Drift-Prone Analogue Sticks As Standard Model"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/428ba372d41eb\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/428ba372d41eb\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"09F41898 E70E 496D B8B7 B179A15FF3DA\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/428ba372d41eb\/09f41898-e70e-496d-b8b7-b179a15ff3da.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/428ba372d41eb\/09f41898-e70e-496d-b8b7-b179a15ff3da.900x.jpg\" alt=\"09F41898 E70E 496D B8B7 B179A15FF3DA\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>YouTube channel <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/mF3hsaZviUU\">Spawn Wave<\/a> has conducted a teardown of the Switch Lite and seemingly confirmed that the new console has the same analogue stick design as the original.<\/p>\n<p>Sticks on the 2017 Switch Joy-Con controllers suffer from an issue with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/07\/poll_have_your_joy-con_been_drifting\">&#8220;drift&#8221;<\/a> &#8211; they register input even when they are not being touched. A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/07\/us_law_firm_opens_switch_joy-con_drift_class_action_investigation\">class-action lawsuit<\/a> has been raised against Nintendo on this matter, and the company has started to repair impacted Joy-Con for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/07\/nintendo_will_reportedly_fix_joy-con_drift_for_free_and_refund_customers_who_paid\">free<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Although the sticks on the Switch Lite have a different part number, Spawn Wave is of the opinion that they are, in terms of design and materials used, identical to the ones on the original model.<\/p>\n<p>The teardown has also revealed that the battery inside the Switch Lite is 16 percent smaller than the one inside the original, and the battery life is maintained due to a more power efficient version of the console&#8217;s processor. The WiFi antenna have also been moved, presumably to improve reception.<\/p>\n<p>It is also revealed that the screen is made by InnoLux, the same company which supplies the improved panel on the upgraded variant of the original Switch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YouTube channel Spawn Wave has conducted a teardown of the Switch Lite and seemingly confirmed that the new console has the same analogue stick design as the original. Sticks on the 2017 Switch Joy-Con controllers suffer from an issue with &#8220;drift&#8221; &#8211; they register input even when they are not being touched. A class-action lawsuit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}