The study found that the plastic circuit board of the Joy-Con handle on the Nintendo Switch will have obvious wear at the contact point of the joystick slider, and it is this wear that eventually leads to the handle shaking. Rod drift occurs.
A recent survey indicated that 40 percent of Nintendo Switch owners have experienced Joy-Con drift, and Joy-Con drift has been around for a long, long time without any major design changes from Nintendo so far.
In this regard, Nintendo insists that Joy-Cons are the same type of product as car tires, and they believe that wear and tear are inevitable.
A company called Gulikit claims to have found the answer to this question that plagues many Switch players. Gulikit has developed a new upgrade kit for affected Joy-Cons users called the “Grain Joy-Con Hall Electromagnetic Joystick”. As you can tell from the nomenclature, these new joysticks use electromagnetic Hall sensors.
The company claims that its joystick can replace the Joy-Con joystick 1:1 without changing the wiring; these electromagnetic Hall sensors are not only more durable than the sensor components in the original joystick, but also consume only 50% of the original power consumption, thus Significantly extend the battery life of Joy-Cons.
Most importantly, they claim that the Hall sensor of this design moves without contact, thereby eliminating drift caused by carbon film wear and eliminating voltage jitter when the carbon film structure moves. In addition, this kind of rocker cap does not need to be disassembled, and users can replace rocker caps with different feel at will.
GuliKit is a design-driven game peripheral brand, especially in the field of Switch accessories. The company also has agents in China, and interested users can go to the e-commerce platform to search and check.
