Nintendo will not put it on its shelf, that’s for sure.

60 Millions De Consommateurs is a French magazine, who a year ago wrote about how the Nintendo Switch is a fragile product, and how sending a Switch without a warranty out to Nintendo for repairs, as well as the repair costs, could cost almost as much as buying a new Switch. They also wrote about how one user was told blatantly: if they don’t pay for the repairs, they have to pay the shipping fee to get the still broken Switch back. Cards/cartridges unable to be read, damaged motherboards, and the Joy-Con’s sticks not responding to clicks – just a couple of issues mentioned by 60 Millions De Consommateurs.

Now, its January issue seems to have awarded the Nintendo Switch the „Most Fragile Product” award, mainly due to how the Joy-Cons tend to drift (we wrote about this issue a couple of times, but in short, the controllers slide out of your control to one direction or another, making precise movements impossible if the drifting happens). It’s a common issue with the Nintendo Switch, which is why even class-action lawsuits are a thing regarding it in the United States (we even wrote about it in the Summer), which is a major market (during the Thanksgiving week in November, the Switch and the September-launched Switch Lite sold 830 thousand units total…).

Even the Nintendo Switch Lite got critique: the Joy-Cons cannot be detached, and it also has the drifting problem. And yet, the Switch outsold the PlayStation 4 and the Xbox One throughout the year, restoring the big N’s reputation after the flop of the Wii U.

Source: DualShockers

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