Nintendo Won't Fix Joy-Cons During COVID-19

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5 years ago

My JoyCons just started drifting after approximately 2 years of use. Sadly I'm quite sure I'm stuck without any official support here in Brazil.

GrumpyHoosier

5 years ago

Its not just the money or that their sold out with nintendo. If you buy another one you lose all the information of every game you've played. I refuse buy a switch from nintendo, because of this crap. Play a game spend all that time just to lose it all because they're using cheap materials. I'll wait till it comes out on emulators.

Rusty_Raven

5 years ago

I even noticed that John Deere tractors have no rights to repair for farmers, they run software through all the major parts (for convenience ;) ) but it made the tractors that used to last 30 years now have a higher turn over than consoles. ;) be kind to your farmers

Jawese

5 years ago

@Bobby_The_Tennis_Pro Yeah, for console gamers, having no right to repair is relatively expensive and inconvenient for a few weeks. For farmers it can be financially devastating or even ruin a whole harvest. I wish they had mentioned how this thing that sucks for gamers also sucks for other people in very significant ways. There's a whole community of farmers who have gotten familiar with tech and software in order to break the rules and help each other repair their tractors, its pretty badass.

Jawese

5 years ago

I agree with pretty much every point made in this video. I'm all for the right to repair your own devices and of course you're right that the current volume of repair requests could have been avoided if the switch were a higher quality product. But repeatedly saying that the Nintendo repair centers are closed without mentioning that they're closed for the best possible reason, while making it sound like anything more than a slight inconvenience, makes you guys seem like entitled cunts. Not long ago you were rightfully shitting on Gamestop for endangering employees and just generally making an ass of itself for claiming it was an essential business and continuing to operate in unsafe conditions. Now y'all are mad at Nintendo for NOT making people work in unsafe conditions for long periods of time? Fuck that. As much as I miss my switch that bricked two days after Animal Crossing released, it isn't anything close to essential for anyone to continue to live. I've been reading, watching Netflix, and playing games on PC and mobile when I need my fix. Am I annoyed? Sure. Do I wish the product was better made? Of course. But I'll get back to ACNH when I can because- hot take- doing everything to preserve people's lives is far more important than repaying bottomless imaginary debts to a racoon loan shark.

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