https://www.economie.gouv.fr/dgccrf/laction-de-la-dgccrf/injonctions-et-sanctions/dysfonctionnements-des-manettes-de-la-console-nintendo-switch-1-35-millions-deuros-damende>**Malfunctions of Nintendo Switch 1 Controllers: €35 Million Fine Imposed Following a DGCCRF Investigation**>Following a referral from the Public Prosecutor of Nanterre, the French Directorate General for Competition Policy, Consumer Affairs and Fraud Control (DGCCRF) conducted an investigation into deceptive commercial practices concerning a malfunction affecting certain Joy-Con controllers for the Nintendo Switch 1 console, launched in March 2017. Nintendo of Europe agreed to pay a negotiated fine of **€35 million**.>After a complaint filed by the consumer association UFC-Que Choisir in September 2020, the DGCCRF’s National Investigation Service (SNE) concluded that Nintendo of Europe had engaged in deceptive commercial practices between 2018 and 2023 by failing to fairly inform consumers about malfunctions affecting certain Joy-Con controllers for the Nintendo Switch 1.>The SNE found that Nintendo only began communicating about these issues in 2020, rather than as soon as it became aware of them. The problems included responsiveness bugs, commonly known as **“drift,”** which caused unintended, erratic, or reversed character movements, as well as controller freezes. This delayed and incomplete communication concerned a technical defect that rendered some Nintendo Switch 1 controllers unresponsive. According to the SNE, this contributed to discouraging consumers from contacting Nintendo’s after-sales service and led some of them to purchase new controllers instead.1/2
>Considering that these actions constituted the criminal offense of deceptive commercial practices—altering consumers’ economic behavior regarding whether to seek Nintendo’s after-sales service and, in some cases, whether to repair or replace their controllers—the SNE submitted the findings of its investigation to the Public Prosecutor of Nanterre in 2025.>Pursuant to Articles L523-1 and following of the French Consumer Code, and with the prosecutor’s approval, Nintendo of Europe was offered a criminal settlement of **€35 million**, which it accepted, along with the publication of a notice on the homepage of Nintendo France’s website.>As part of a coordinated European initiative, Nintendo of Europe officially committed in 2023 to **repair affected controllers free of charge**, even beyond the statutory warranty period. Repair requests must be submitted directly through Nintendo’s website.2/2ITS OVER
FBI DO SOMETHING
>>740643838>"Come here OP, let me stick my finger in your ass and show you what Nintendo has done...."
>>740643838Nintenbros fell for it again award
Step away from the billion-dollar corporation.
>>740643838god i can't ever take this stupid fucking sad mario image seriously it always makes me kek when i see it
>>740643838BWAHAHAHAHA, insanely based and well deserved. Fuck this company.
Literally all controllers this gen drift. Why is Nintendo being singled out.
I see someone is trying to shitpost one last time before getting raped by Nintendo tomorrow
>>740645174it's not about driftit's specifically about not having free repair. for some unfathomable reason NoE doesn't have free repair unlike NoA and NoJ.
>>740645528Nobody is afraid of Woketendo.
>>740645174Drift's only a problem if you play games.
>>740643838I still remember the shill that said "you probably chucked it across the room like a retard" when i first complained about this.
>>740645603OOOH TRANSNANA
>>740645693You definitely chucked it across the room like a retard.
>>740645603Still better then the dogshity raresnoy design
>>740645579> for some unfathomable reason NoE doesn't have free repair unlike NoA and NoJ.Do euros really?
>>740645810No one genuinely thinks that
>>740645758OOOH (my now gone) BANANA
>>740645921Yeah they chose free healthcare instead
>>740645579>for some unfathomable reason NoE doesn't have free repair unlike NoA and NoJ.I would say this very thread highlights why, fear that if they show the slightest bit of weakness to Europe they will be subject to the same petty bullying from the EU that the phone industry gets.
>>740645794SHUT UP.ALL I DID WAS DROP IT.IN RAGEWHEN I LOST AT SPLATOON35 TIMESyou know damn well a gamecube controller would tank that. You could bludgeon someone to death with an older controller after they walked in on a loss with no tendies and still play for a decade straight like nothing happened.
>>740645145I think you mean laugh, anon.It always makes you laugh when you see it.
>>740646045>Bullying the phone industry for their Jewish practicesLooks like tendie shills are just copro shills in general.Very interesting
it's pretty stupid because nintendo allowed free replacement day one. and that money will be poketted by the judge there's literally no control of that lawsuit money around there, it just disappears.
>>740643838Jew company deserves it
>>740643838Holy BASEDFuck around and find out fragiles
>>740643838joycon drift is user error. I have a day 1 switch with thousands of hours played and still zero drift because I take care of my console
>>740643838based frenchies
>>740643838fucking basedthere's really no excuse when hall effect has existed for decades. same with sony and microsoft, but it's mitigated slightly in those cases since their controllers aren't an integral part of the consolethe only issue is that manufacturers should be inherently responsible for this instead of it being some technicality where they didn't communicate about it well enough.
>>740647187>It didn't happen to me so it couldn't have possibly happened to anyoneNeck yourself tendie shill
France will regret this. Nintendo are a generous company, but also a proud one. They will not forget this grievous dishonor. Expect your sad shithole of country to be left in the dust while everyone else goes on and on about the latest game from the ones you spurned. Faguettes.
>>740647187this, nintendo can do some awful practices but this was just manufactured outragetoo many normies just treat their stuff like shitit's like people complaining about disc rot and then you go to their home and their game CDs are in one of those stuffy binders or just scattered out in the open
>>740648449You are a raped tendie slave
>>740643838Based
>live in NA>get free joycon repairs with no questions askednot my problem lol
>>740647187No it's real. I have OCD and have to wash my hands thoroughly before touching controllers. I took autistically good care of my Switch 1 and one of the joyons drifted after a few years. Oddly it wasn't the one that came with the console. Basically the inside of the control sticks have a small part made of graphite that, over time, gets worn down. Depending on the wear pattern, it may no longer complete a circuit correctly.
>>740645648heh
>>740643838>35 millionThat's the cost of a major game. I hope they don't have to cancel a title because of the whims of French "people"
>>740645579>>740645921EU already has warranty by law
>>740643838>NINTENDO FINED 8 HOURS OF PROFIT FOR JOYCON DRIFTOh... welp! That's... too bad! Hahaha!
>>740645579It absolutely does. They replaced my collector 3dsxl with a new one just because it had a single dead pixel.
>macaco preemptively seethingLmao kwab-597535 karma to ziony however.
>>740643838I don't understand why they won't use make sticks that won't drift. I won't buy their official controllers until they get their shit together.
Its funny because the ps5 controller is even worse with drift and zony pretends nothing is wrong. Maybe they should be sued too.Hell, while you're at it, sue them for not honoring the mandatory 3 years of warranty
>>740643838>>740645145itsa over...
>>740643838Thats it...Bring out the Epstein files!0
>>740646061>You could bludgeon someone to death with an older controller after they walked in on a loss with no tendies and still play for a decade straight like nothing happened.Truth. When I was a kid I would regularly whip my NES controller at a brick wall everytime I died, works fine to this day
>>740649583Can't have drifting controllers when there is nothing to play on ps5 anyway
>>740649419They could have made like 10 Pokemon games with that!
>japs are having a melty on xitter over thislmao at this slave race
>>740645921No he made that up.
thats a rounding error for ninteno
>>740650021jesus
>>740645579Free repairs are available today, but they waited until 2023 to offer them, and the first gen drift issues occurred in 2018. They are mainly being convicted for failing to inform customers of the issue surrounding their controllers, which the French court has ruled as a "disloyal practice" per EU consumer law
>>740643838FUCKING KEK
>>740650021Japs are retarded as ever kekFrance as a market is already worth far more than the fine, and EU law doesn't only apply to them
>>740643838Perfect News right before the Direct L O L
>>740645940what the fuck were they thinking?
>>740650021They act so much like tendie cultists on /v/
can someone post the sad mario dancing webm
>>740651689Lol
Now do the same thing again for killing Mario Kart's online right after I specifically bought it
>>740643838based France
I doubt anyone in afrifrance even owns a nintendont, that shithole doesn't have an economy it's just an african country
>>740643838>Fined 35 Mill for broken sticks>Avoided getting fined for broken disc drives in pic relatedWhy has no one noticed that they've been doing this for years.
>>740643838>it's realWell I'll be.
>>740643838NOOOOOOOCIA DO SOMETHING
>>740646003But their healthcare isn't free. It's paid for in higher taxes. And it isn't good partly because of that. And it also isn't available on demand to the natives because brown people clog up the system.
>>740657534>this is what americucks tell themselves to make themselves feel better for getting kikedKEK
>>740657570Your "doctor" will be a paki with chatgpt, and he'll send you home with a diagnosis of a bad cold when you have a tumor
pokepark paris NEVER EVER
>>740657670You are a nation raped by kikesAt this point it isn't even rape since most of you acknowledge it and support it
I hope its true and I hhope they win because I am tired of all the big gaming companies selling controllers they know will break, and they sell them for an insane mark up it's a total racket. I don't understand why it's only Nintendo that get raped though, Sony and Xbox controllers also use awful joysticks. Sony even made Dualshock 3 controllers with hall effect sticks years ago but changed their mind because it ate into their bottom line it's demented.
>>740643838based EU, shit like this is 10 times more important than SKG
Nintendo has brought us countless hours of fun for decades. What have those frog eating fags ever done for the world?
>>740643838who get the money?
>>740658095my dad
>>740657881>Sony even made Dualshock 3 controllers with hall effect sticks years agodamn I wasnt even aware. man fuck them.$15 chink pads use hall effect sticks now.
>>740658095My uncle who works at Nintendo
>>740643838For once, based baguettes
>>740657970Does this actually set a precedent, or can they just pay the fine and get away with it?
Joycon drift is so easy to fix with a can of contact cleaner, that's crazy
>>740645810>raresnoy
>>740643838[HUGE IMPORTANT NEWS]OP SUCKS NIGGER AIDS DICKS
>>740657869>implying eurotards aren't raped by kikesLel come on now you guys can't even touch a gun without begging for permission
>>740585783>Posted it again award
>>740660547At least they have walkable cities so while a euro walks to the store unlike a fat fuck american he can be culturally enriched by abdul and his knife.
>>740645940NO FUCKING WAY...
>>740643838now nintendo has no choice but to completely destroy eu. after nintendo is done fucking them in the ass their standard of living will be worse than in africa
>>740660617This is the pot calling the kettle black. You're out of your mind if you think mudslimes aren't invading Europe. Lel
>>740643838Thanks for funding our boomers
>>740646045I don't have much love for EU but making big corpos at least somewhat accountable for their bullshit practices is alright in by book.
I just don't get it. TMR sticks are cheap as fuck.
>>740643838Switch 1 is already dead. Who gives a fuck?
Based UFC making Nintendo kneel. Can't wait to see how their lawsuits against Activision (over abusive banning) and Ubishit (over The Crew and SKG) end up.
>>740645048>discord trannies with TDS also have NDS What’s the connection?
>>740646159>pretends to the jews in an attempt to blend in>reddit spaces his postKek
>>740664560pretends to hate the jews*Ffs
>>740664503>MAGAcucks are also tendiesInteresting how both groups have a below average IQ
>>740664885
>>740665092>triggered by a cr/lfThat style of formatting posts is older than you, summerfag
>>740664885Schizo
>>740665419>>740665092
>>740645048>>740664885Are they tendies or not, faggot.
>>740665419You just can't help yourself pushing the spacebar. It's muscle memory. Go back
>>740643838Noted. Next time we won't offer our products or services in France. Let's see how your voters like that.
>>740643857>Nintendo of Europe officially committed in 2023 to **repair affected controllers free of charge**, even beyond the statutory warranty period.Neat, I'm going to send in 6 of them I have lying around.
>>740665092>itoddleropinion disregarded
>>740661701Exploiting anti corporate obsession is exactly how Europe got away with their bullshit for so long, they blinded people to their sins by making them worship the state over this stuff. When there were no legitimate complaints to be made they start coming up with stupid nonsense.
>>740651689Jueves
>>740666175Shalom
>>740643838EVERY DAY
>>740666161
>NITENDOOh, he's mad
>>740667904
>>740667963>MULTIPLE PEOPLE CAN USE THE SAME IMAGE? WOAHH
>>740667557>itoddler AND a soiteenpathetic subhuman
I find this ridiculous, how many systems where sold in france? How many actually fot issues? And because its not a class action most "victims" wont even get a refund.
>hourly snoy cope thread
>>740668305>I’ve been found out
>>740668421>>740667557
>>740643838Incase you're stupid, the EU is dying and bleeding money so they are fining other nations company for money. They don't give a fuck about consumers, they just need that cash.
>>740643838>the cost of not having to actually fix your controller is 35M eurosseems like a good deal for Nintendo, all things considered
>>740643838whats 35 mil yuroos for a jew-est gook company on the planet?
>>740643838kmao
>>740668305>Macaco still doesn't know how metadata worksLmao kwab-593752 karma to ziony however
