Jan 20, 2025 · The Switch 2 will reportedly use hall-effect joysticks, which have contactless tracking, ergo no friction causing the joysticks to wear down. This would make the joysticks far more durable, avoiding drift altogether.

Jan 16, 2025 · It's too difficult to say for certain, but this could indicate a new module inside with hall sensor tech, or even the latest craze, TMR sensors. Nintendo hasn't broken too many rules when it...

Dec 19, 2024 · Leak suggests Switch 2 has Hall-effect sticks, is more powerful docked. Reveal could be as early as January

Sep 8, 2023 · A patent filed by Nintendo suggests that they’re working on Hall Effect style joysticks for the Switch 2 that would eliminate stick drift almost entirely.

Jan 19, 2025 · One of the more prominent leakers of Nintendo Switch 2 information was NextHandheld who has recently doubled down on the newly announced platform’s Joy-Con controller having Hall Effect joysticks.

Sep 11, 2023 · Nintendo has patented a new controller design that seems to include magnetic (hall effect) analogue sticks. No guarentees, but if this is for Switch 2, this should end analogue stick drift...

Jan 21, 2025 · Hall effect thumbsticks could be a real game-changer for the Nintendo Switch 2, with the magnetic technology potentially eliminating the dreaded Joy-Con drift that plagued the original...

Jan 22, 2025 · It’s a much more elegant solution and, if combined with other Joy-Con features like reported anti-drift Hall Effect joysticks, mouse-like optical sensors, and a mysterious new C button, could ...

Dec 20, 2024 · To release the connection, there's a much larger button on the controller connected to a magnet. More importantly, the new controller design will reportedly utilise magnetic Hall effect joysticks, eliminating the maligned stick-drift issue from the Nintendo Switch.

Apr 26, 2024 · The iconic slide-in "click" of the Switch Joy-Cons may be replaced with a magnetic attachment mechanism in the Switch 2, according to a report from Spanish-language gaming news site Vandal.