I have the same experience. If I knew, I wouldn't never bought it. And once I experienced it, everybody was like, oooh yeah, joy cons are broken, buy pro controller. I have 4 joy cons and all started to drift and thus unusable, 3-6 months after I bough them. Bought pro controller 6 months ago and so far it still works.

So bad yet so expensive. I am honestly amazed there is no drama around it, its THAT bad. People can obviously tolerate any kind of shit.

Same. I don't understand how it's still such a consistent problem for them, even years after the Switch first released. I've had better luck with 3rd party Joy Con-like controllers than the official product.

There are some games that are basically unplayable because the drift will unpredictably fuck things up. Like the new Super Mario Golf game, for example. I tried it with the old Joy Cons and the drift will randomly add curve to your shot and ruin the shot, and some of the challenges in Adventure mode in particular don't leave much room for error.

Broken Joyons? Ok, that's common..

Did you really manage to break 2 Pro controllers? If so, how and in which way is it broken?

Not really doubting you, however those are beasts and, generally, renowned as the better controllers (compared to Xbox, PS4).

I have one (Xenoblade one) and it has around 500 hours of playtime on it - feels like new...

I hardly used them for a year, then I bought a new game and invited friends to play and now the buttons take multiple presses to register and the sticks drift.

I thought this was overblown complaint until I ran into this issue. It was extremely frustrating.

But let's be honest, you don't buy Nintendo products for high quality gaming, you buy it because you always buy Zelda.

your complaint does not align with your final statement.

If controller's longevity is inherently problematic, how is it suitable for solo while not so for copperative?

If I'm playing Zelda or something, it's bearable because it's not too time sensitive and no one else is depending on me. If I'm playing Smash Bros then I just can't hit any combos and if I'm playing Overcooked then we are all letting each other down because we're running past and into each other.

ok so it's a latency issue? Your original statement indicated physical longevity issues with the controller.

No it's not latency, the controllers just don't work. The sticks drift and the buttons sometimes take multiple presses.