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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con may have the same stick drift problem as original Switch
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Of course they will, they make too much money off people buying replacements. Since the games also got an increase in price, I expect the joy-cons bought separately will also be marked up by a non-trivial margin.
Didn't they start offering free repairs at some point due to it being such a widespread issue? Or did they stop doing that at some point?
Between the damage to their reputation it would cause (knowingly releasing a very flawed product despite having already publicly apologized for it years ago) and the potential for more class-action lawsuits down the line, it seems like it'd be profoundly shortsighted for them to do this.
But maybe the profits from selling replacements outweighs all that in their eyes. I sure hope not. One would hope the profits from a considerably more expensive console and moderately more expensive games would be enough.
I know die-hard Nintendo fans who were unaware of it until I let them know. It's not like Nintendo advertises it publicly.
They initially also only did it in places that consumer protection laws would force them to. Some markets (at least initially) didn’t get the same benefit.