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Re:Nintendo Switch review: pure potential by Retr0spectrum on Wednesday March 01, 2017 @11:30AM (#13765121)
It definitely looks bad, but I've seen a few videos demonstrating the issue and it only really happens if you have the joycon entirely covered by your hands, or behind your back.

This could be a software bug that is fixable with an update, but that seems unlikely considering it affects the left controller more than the right one, which would indicate a hardware design flaw.

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Re:Nintendo Switch review: pure potential by JohnJamesRambo on Wednesday March 01, 2017 @12:03PM (#13765573)
I'm not following your train of logic where it isn't that bad if a joycon doesn't work if covered by your hands. For a real product it needs to work in all cases, not if you put your hands a certain way.
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Re:Nintendo Switch review: pure potential by ctdonath on Wednesday March 01, 2017 @03:08PM (#13767774)
Sounds like another big-name product, for which the advice "not if you put your hands a certain way" was touted as a complete disaster.
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Re:Nintendo Switch review: pure potential by Retr0spectrum on Wednesday March 01, 2017 @12:10PM (#13765671)
I don't disagree, I'm just saying it's not a complete disaster.
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