Nintendo confirmed the Switch 2’s Joy-Cons don’t use Hall effect joysticks

Nintendo hasn’t confirmed what joystick exertion the Switch 2 is using, but its not Hall effect sensors.

After respective days of not providing a nonstop reply astir the technology utilized successful the Switch 2’s Joy-Cons, Nintendo has yet confirmed that the caller console’s controllers do not employment anti-drift Hall effect joysticks.

When asked astir the exertion wrong the Switch 2’s Joy-Cons that “feels truthful antithetic to the archetypal Switch’s analog stick” during a caller interview, Nate Bihldorff, the Senior Vice President of Product Development & Publishing astatine Nintendo of America, told Nintendo Life that “the Joy-Con 2’s controllers person been designed from the crushed up. They’re not Hall Effect sticks, but they consciousness truly good.”

Following Nintendo’s Switch 2 presumption past week, the institution shared an Ask the Developer discussion with the console’s designers that touched connected method aspects of its upgraded controllers. According to Switch 2 shaper Kouichi Kawamoto, the institution “redesigned everything from scratch for Joy-Con 2… Compared to the Joy-Con controllers for Switch, the power sticks are larger and much durable, with smoother movement. We’ve besides made Joy-Con 2 bigger to lucifer the larger console.”

However, portion Nintendo has confirmed that the Switch 2’s Joy-Cons aren’t relying connected anti-drift Hall effect sensors, it has yet to corroborate precisely what exertion is successful use.

Is the console inactive utilizing the aforesaid potentiometer-based joysticks that contributed to the archetypal Switch’s notorious joystick drift problems, oregon has it recovered a mode to amended that exertion to widen the longevity of the Joy-Con hardware? And if Hall effect joysticks aren’t successful use, has Nintendo adopted tunneling magnetoresistance joystick technology that could lick joystick drift erstwhile and for each portion offering respective benefits implicit Hall effect sensors?

We’ll either find retired from Nintendo itself, oregon person to hold until the Switch 2 yet ships and gets dissected to uncover what’s wrong those controllers.