Despite becoming the third best-selling console of all time with 125.55 million sales in under six years, the Nintendo Switch has been plagued by complaints of its.
In context: A long-running class action lawsuit against Nintendo over the Switch’s Joy-Con drift issue has been dismissed by a California district court. The case rested on whether Nintendo’s End User License Agreement (EULA), which disallows lawsuits, applies to the parents who bought the console. According to the judge, it does.
Despite becoming the third best-selling console of all time with 125.55 million sales in under six years, the Nintendo Switch has been plagued by complaints of its Joy-Con controllers automatically drifting across in one direction after extended use.
Joy-Con drift led class-action lawsuits in 2019 and 2020. The latter case, Sanchez et al. v. Nintendo of America, was brought by two mothers who bought Nintendo Switch consoles for their children. It revolved around the EULA that Switch owners must sign.
