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Basically UFC filed an official complaint about Nintendo. More specifically about the drifting (shockers).
As soon as UFC made its intent public to sue Nintendo about the Joycons drift, more than 5k people got in connection with UFC in less than 48h to back up the complaint. Happened last november.
In January 2020, Nintendo France's CEO (Phillipe Lavoué) guaranteed that they'd fix any faulty joycon, for no cost, even if the warantee ran out; due to a first action from UFC. However, users kept on filing complaints to the UFC, in fact 65% of these complainants have noticed an issue less than a year after buying the joycons.
UFC asked for an expert to study the root of the issue. The expert has revealed that indeed Nintendo modified their joycons (after the first incident in january), however these changes do not address the drifting. Which means that Nintendo knows, and did not act accordingly.
The expert brought by the UFC has identified the two main issues for why the drifting is happening :
* programmed obsolescence of the circuit board
* a poor sealing, meaning that a worrisome amount of dirt (from outside but also inside the joycon) gets collected (basically they're not well isolated from the dirt)
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The last part sums everything up, reiterating how Nintendo is not acting, although they have been made well aware of the issue for the past 3 years. How despite the CEO's claims, this issue seems to be vaguely ignored by Nintendo. Which tends to make UFC believe that this is a strategy from them to create planned obsolescence and how repairing/replacing joycons which anyway have such a strong rate of failure after less than a year cannot be a solution.
So in a last effort from the association (which is a very big one in France, it's basically where any customer complaint can be backed up), they are suing Nintendo.
Then they give a link to :
* a guide on how to change your joycon with Nintendo's customer service
* a file to use if Nintendo refuses to replace your joycon for free
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Basically, the gist of it, more or less faithfully translated because I don't always have the right english vocabulary. I want to stress out that this is a post from UFC own website, meaning that you can expect it to push how legitimate and serious they believe their lawsuit to be.
Now if I think this is serious... well I don't know for sure, I doubt Nintendo will change their joycon's design just for us frenchies, so i assume the best thing UFC can get is a fine and the guarantee that Nintendo of France will always replace any faulty joycon, for free. I doubt this will escalate anywhere further that Nintendo of France (so this should give you an idea).
That being said, I am pretty clueless about the court shenanigans and in France it's quite complicated so at best something gets done in 5 years from now and at this point we'll be playing BOTW 4 on our brand new Switch 3.
