After dealing with years of widespread reports of “stick drift” on the original Switch Joy-Cons, Nintendo watchers have been hoping the Change 2 would make use of magnetic Hall effect sensors that keep away from many of the bodily put on and tear that causes the issue. Now, although, a Nintendo govt has confirmed that the Pleasure-Cons on the brand new console will not make use of the extra dependable however costlier expertise.

“Properly, the Pleasure-Con 2’s controllers have been designed from the bottom up,” Nintendo of America Senior Vice President of Product Improvement & Publishing Nate Bihldorff told enthusiast site Nintendo Life in a latest interview. “They don’t seem to be Corridor impact sticks, however they really feel actually good.”

The affirmation comes after Nintendo pointedly refused to supply particulars concerning the Change 2’s joystick {hardware} at a roundtable Q&A session attended by Ars final week. When a reporter requested whether or not stick drift “is the kind of factor that has been improved with the Pleasure-Con 2 and the Professional Controller 2 as nicely,” Change 2 Technical Director Tetsuya Sasaki responded (by way of a translator) that the “new Pleasure-Con 2 controllers have been designed from the bottom up from scratch to have larger motion, and in addition loads smoother motion.”

Since then, Nintendo had supplied equally imprecise responses to different shops when requested immediately concerning the subject. “We haven’t shared what the internal mechanisms are of these management sticks, and if I had been to dive into it, it might mainly be sharing the entire blueprint of the management stick,” Sasaki told Polygon. “The management sticks for Pleasure-Con 2 controllers have been redesigned and have improved in areas equivalent to sturdiness,” a Nintendo spokesperson told VGC.