Nintendo has been hit with another class-action lawsuit over the Nintendo Switch JoyCon analog drift issue. It is the second time that the company has been hit with a class-action lawsuit. The first class-action lawsuit over the JoyCon drift issue was filed back in 2019
Now, the Canadian law firm Lambert Avocat Inc. has submitted another class-action lawsuit against Nintendo. The lawsuit seeks restitution for anybody who has bought a Nintendo Switch, Switch Lite, JoyCon, or Pro Controller in the province of Quebec.
JoyCon drift issue frequently affects the left Joy-Con’s analog stick and seems to eventually happen to most, if not all, of the itty-bitty detachable controllers with enough use which is a plaguing issue for Nintendo Switch users, considering that it has been more than 3 years since the Switch was first released along with the JoyCon controllers.
Law firm Lambert Avocat provided the following justifications for the lawsuit:
- The consumers wouldn’t have brought the defective gaming systems or controllers or wouldn’t have paid such high price, had they known their reduced product lifespan because of the defect.
- The defect prevents the products in performing a function for which they were bought for and causes inconvenience to consumers
- The defect was not revealed by Nintendo.
- The consumers were not able to detect the default through an ordinary examination of the products.
Currently, the second class-action lawsuit is awaiting authorization from a Superior Court of Quebec judge to proceed. In the meantime, Lambert Avocat is collecting information about Joy-Con drift via an online questionnaire.
Nintendo has been in hot water for quite some time now regarding the Joy-con analog drift issue. Last year Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa apologized for the JoyCon drift issue. But the company has not done anything concrete to resolve the problem since then.
Nintendo has started to repair defective Joy-Cons free of charge and they recently began selling individual JoyCons, making replacements less expensive, but still, they have not started work on rectifying the issue from the root.
