Her på Gamereactor har vi løbende fortalt om de problemer tusindvis, hvis ikke millioner, af Switch-ejere stod med kort efter købet af deres Switch-konsol takket være såkaldt "drift"-problemer med de dertilhørende Joy-Con controllere. Her begyndte de at registrere falske inputs fra analogpindene, og kunne derfor slet, slet ikke bruges.
Men hvor omfattende var det her problem? Kotaku har nu udgivet et interview med en tidligere medarbejder fra værkstedet United Radio fra Syracuse i New York, og ifølge denne medarbejder var der på et tidspunkt "tusindvis af sager" om ugen associeret med drift i Joy-Cons.
"According to our source, who Kotaku has independently confirmed worked at a high level within the repair shop, the faulty design of the hardware was felt most acutely by those tasked with fixing the hundreds of controllers that flooded in each day. They said that "easily thousands of Joy-Cons were coming through each week." United Radio confirmed over the phone that they handle Switch repairs, but the customer-facing process goes through Nintendo. United Radio relied on temporary employees that were supplied through Aerotek, a staffing company. The former supervisor said: "We ended up having to set up an entire new workspace just for Joy-Con repair."
Nintendo lader til at have fået bugt med problemet nu, takket være gradvise redesigns, men det har uden tvivl været et kæmpe problem.