{"id":97357,"date":"2019-07-27T01:45:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-27T01:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/07\/free_joy-con_drift_repairs_extended_to_latin_america"},"modified":"2019-07-27T01:45:00","modified_gmt":"2019-07-27T01:45:00","slug":"free-joy-con-drift-repairs-extended-to-latin-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/07\/27\/free-joy-con-drift-repairs-extended-to-latin-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Joy-Con Drift Repairs Extended To Latin America"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/9f5392aab25fe\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/9f5392aab25fe\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Switch Joy Con\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/9f5392aab25fe\/switch-joy-con.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/9f5392aab25fe\/switch-joy-con.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Switch Joy Con\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>After a class action lawsuit was filed against Nintendo of America for its Switch Joy-Con &#8220;drifting&#8221; issues <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/07\/class_action_lawsuit_officially_filed_against_nintendo_for_switch_joy-con_drifting_issues\">last week<\/a>, the video game giant <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/07\/nintendo_will_reportedly_fix_joy-con_drift_for_free_and_refund_customers_who_paid\">reportedly<\/a> instructed support service representatives within this region to repair the controllers for free and refund customers who had previously paid.<\/p>\n<p>A day later, we found out this free fix didn&#8217;t necessarily apply to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/07\/rumour_free_joy-con_drift_repairs_might_be_limited_to_certain_regions1\">certain regions<\/a> outside of North America. Now, though, there&#8217;s a minor update for Latin America. It&#8217;s been reportedly confirmed by a Nintendo repair shop located in Costa Rica, that <em>all<\/em> Switch users in Latin America with faulty Joy-Con are able to get free repairs.<\/p>\n<p>ResetEra user Atheerios further clarified:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Nintendo has communicated every authorized distributor in LATAM to offer free repairs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>If you&#8217;re located in Latin America and have a Switch Joy-Con with drift issues, visit <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendo.com\/consumer\/repair\/es_la\/repair.jsp\">Nintendo.com<\/a> to find details for an authorised repair shop in your area.<\/p>\n<p>Alternatively, you can try and resolve the problem yourself with our handy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/07\/guide_how_to_fix_a_drifting_nintendo_switch_joy-con_analogue_stick\">step-by-step guide<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/rUTuOOZlX9w\">video<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a class action lawsuit was filed against Nintendo of America for its Switch Joy-Con &#8220;drifting&#8221; issues last week, the video game giant reportedly instructed support service representatives within this region to repair the controllers for free and refund customers who had previously paid. A day later, we found out this free fix didn&#8217;t necessarily [&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-97357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97357","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=97357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}