The lawsuit filed once morest Nintendo due to the “drift” in the Joy-Con was dismissed this time on a simple technicality.
Recently, The Nintendo company received a lawsuit from 2 parents who bought a Nintendo Switch for their children. The buyers in question claimed a drift failure in the Joy-Con.
This means that the console had errors in its controls, specifically in the movement leverswhich are of paramount importance to the player experience.
These errors have been reported since the launch of the console in 2019, and since then the developer company has not delivered an optimal solution for it.
In fact, it was the same players who found a way to solve it and who have also posted different tutorials or recommendations in this regard. However, despite the effort, they don’t always work.
This put Nintendo in the crosshairs of several gaming organizations that have filed lawsuits and demanded a permanent fix for this flaw, as these parents did, albeit defeated in the legal process.
Why did Nintendo win the lawsuit if the Switch was flawed?
It turns out that the company, won the lawsuit, nothing more and nothing less than a simple technicality in their user license policies.
The lawsuit was filed in 2020 and a year later Nintendo requested the dismissal of the case, relying on its user license agreements and the purchase of the console.
It was so that finally this year the parents lost the lawsuit, since following an investigation, authorities determined that children using the Nintendo Switch were not involved in the licensing agreementsince the console had been a gift from his parents.
“There is no agreement between Nintendo and minors. Since they were never part of the agreement nor were they bound by its arbitration clause,” the ruling determined.
Since they were not the buyers, they simply had no right to claimas detailed el portal Level Up. In addition, it was also established that the buyers “assigned their minor children the tasks of configuring the Switch, which did not constitute use of the console by the parents.”
Despite lawsuits and growing controversy, the company has not announced any damage redress measures or compensation for players who have filed claims for this bugand at the moment, he still has 2 legal processes to face.
Nintendo won their class action lawsuit regarding the joy-con drift problem initiated in 2019.
The case has been thrown out because kids can’t sue Nintendo since they don’t OWN the device and parents accepting the User Agreement prevents them from suing Nintendo too. pic.twitter.com/mR3Cerv1qT
— Deathgoat (@itsdeathgoat) February 6, 2023
