{"id":100665,"date":"2019-09-23T18:45:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-23T18:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/09\/uh-oh_weve_got_our_first_reported_case_of_drift_on_the_switch_lite"},"modified":"2019-09-23T18:45:00","modified_gmt":"2019-09-23T18:45:00","slug":"uh-oh-weve-got-our-first-reported-case-of-drift-on-the-switch-lite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/09\/23\/uh-oh-weve-got-our-first-reported-case-of-drift-on-the-switch-lite\/","title":{"rendered":"Uh-Oh, We&#8217;ve Got Our First Reported Case Of Drift On The Switch Lite"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/c921c2f5f9870\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/c921c2f5f9870\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"53B914BD 6551 4D42 9123 372799B8C0AE\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/c921c2f5f9870\/53b914bd-6551-4d42-9123-372799b8c0ae.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/c921c2f5f9870\/53b914bd-6551-4d42-9123-372799b8c0ae.900x.jpg\" alt=\"53B914BD 6551 4D42 9123 372799B8C0AE\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>Ever since the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/09\/hardware_review_nintendo_switch_lite_-_half_a_switch_but_thats_more_than_enough_for_some\">Switch Lite<\/a> launched, one big question mark has loomed over it: will its analogue sticks suffer from the same <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/07\/poll_have_your_joy-con_been_drifting\">drift issues<\/a> that have plagued the original model&#8217;s Joy-Con controllers?<\/p>\n<p>Despite <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/09\/second_nintendo_switch_lite_teardown_hints_at_different_analogue_stick_design\">fresh reports<\/a> that the analogue stick inside the Switch Lite differs in terms of design, we&#8217;ve had our first report of a unit exhibiting drift.<\/p>\n<p>While we can&#8217;t be 100 percent sure this means the console is drift-prone (this could potentially be a different fault, and one case doesn&#8217;t mean all units are necessarily at risk), it&#8217;s not the most encouraging sign &#8211; especially when you consider that the system has only been available for a matter of days.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\">[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=d2hglXSO7Co?rel=0&amp;hd=1&amp;showinfo=0&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;autohide=1&#038;w=900&#038;h=507]<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>As you can see from the footage, the issue appears to be with the right-hand stick. The owner lightly touches the stick but input continues to be detected even after they lift their finger away.<\/p>\n<p>What do you make of this footage? Let us know with a comment below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since the Switch Lite launched, one big question mark has loomed over it: will its analogue sticks suffer from the same drift issues that have plagued the original model&#8217;s Joy-Con controllers? Despite fresh reports that the analogue stick inside the Switch Lite differs in terms of design, we&#8217;ve had our first report of a [&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-100665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100665","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=100665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}