So this fine is being paid to… The French government?
Look, I’m all for trying to punish the corporation for bad practices, but that money should be distributed to the people impacted by those practices, i.e. Joycon owners. Not disappear into the pockets of a regulatory board who had largely nothing to do with this situation and just sees an easy opportunity to profit.
I’ve wasted a ton of money on joycons at this point and frankly I don’t mind not getting reimbursed if the fines actually stopped companies from shit practices. I don’t think this is a big enough fine to stop Nintendo from charging a stupid amount for something that is known not to last.
Look into hall effect Joy con stick replacements. They use a different mechanism that doesn’t have the same drift issues, and aren’t that hard to install.
It is very easy to replace, considering the size, but having to replace the joysticks on a $90 controller soured me on Nintendo forever. Even after years of knowing the problem exists they still dgaf. And so, neither do I. The switch 2 is the first console in the history of the company, that I don’t own.
Fines go to governments, you gotta sue to get paid.
I’m not sure if France has class-action lawsuits, but if that happens I’d imagine you could point to this fine by the French Trade Commission as evidence of harm.
Force them to do a recall and replace the damn things with ones that don’t get fucked after only a few months of use.
Didn’t they already do that like 10 years ago? In the US they didn’t do a recall per se but they offered to replace them for free.
No, not “and replace the damn things with ones that don’t get fucked after only a few months of use.” They replaced them with them same things.
Also the Switch came out 9 years ago…
Nintendo has decided to run with the idea of “hey, just buy it again”, company-wide.
As well they should. I have nothing against Nintendo, but the joy-con issue was really abhorrent. It’s a crappy design, a known flaw, and their solution is to tell you to buy another one at like 40 bucks each. It’s a clear case of shoddy design to save pennies.
Meanwhile a buddy of mine came to me and asked if I could fix it… $15 for a set of hall effect Joy cons and another $10 for the stupid proprietary screwdriver needed to open the casing and he’s good to go.
Oh no another fraud conviction fine that equals a rounding error for the company.
For anyone who is stuck with stick drift and isn’t in the French government and thus can’t use this to get their JoyCons repaired, you can get TMR joysticks for Switch and Switch 2 JoyCons for like $20-$30. Like Hall effect but better!
Ooh, $30 more for the $90 controllers to work? The ones that have had this problem for a literal decade? And I have to install them myself? Where do I sign!?
What a mouthful of a name.
France’s equivalent of the Federal Trade Commission, Direction Générale de la Concurrence, de la Consommation et de la Répression des Fraudes
And you call us Germans out for our long words …
In German, wouldn’t that all be one word?
Yes and therefore it would be shorter.
Die eidgenössische Verbraucherschutzbehörde
That would be Swiss, though.
Yeah, it’s like the French are trying to prove something.
That’s why we call the DGCCRF !
Wow I don’t even need $40M but I’ll take it.
And still nothing done about the ps5 comtrollers…
Billions is spelled with a B
