The "Foam Pads" In The Zelda Joy-Con Controllers Aren't New - Nintendo Life

Earlier this month, we ran a story about someone who had supposedly come up with a solution for Joy-Con drift.

Now, a Nintendo Switch user by the name of @Mario_RPG_Fan on Twitter has opened up their brand new Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword HD controller (yes, someone actually did that) and discovered two foam strips around the analog section of the case...

While it seems like this could potentially be an exciting fix, since it 'blew up' online many other Switch fans have now highlighted how similar strips have also been spotted on much older Joy-Con.

YouTuber Spawn Wave shared his own yellow Joy-Cons from a few years ago, alongside the new Legend of Zelda ones:.

Fellow YouTuber Erica Griffin responded to this, noting how it's apparently been a "good while" since these "foam pads" have been in the Joy-Con, but they won't necessarily resolve the drift issues:.

"I first saw them on my neon purple and orange joy-con, Oct 2019.

It has the pads and still drifts a bit.

While these foam pads may have slightly improved Joy-Con controllers, it seems they're not necessarily the official fix everyone is hoping for...

Have you seen these pads in your own Joy-Con before.

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Certified Nintendo Moment?

Yeah, it's a weird comment that Nintendo saw a video from YouTube and maybe managed to open all of the joycons which were heading to retailers in order to add this.

If this is the solution from Nintendo, it was implemented way before the video came out.

Could Nintendo have secret agents within us who work to sway public opinion in favor of Nintendo.

Future Nintendo does what Nintendidn't.

When I replaced shells on my OG model there were no foam pads

I haven't opened either personally but I'd be interested to learn if the latter have the foam pads

I've never had a single controller drift on me in 30 plus years until the joy-con came along

If Nintendo have made them so vulnerable to dust that they can sit unused in a house and get it, that is still their problem

Nintendo are to blame for using cheap parts

About a year old nintendo fixed it for free saying fault with stick in their letter

And even then, dust is EVERYWHERE, so Nintendo should have made a controller that's much more dust resistant, but nah, just blame the fans for not "taking care of the controllers" even though there's almost no damn way to avoid this problem because everyone has dust in their house of some capacity, and the controllers should have some sort of resistance against dust in the first place, like, notice how little people complained about the PS4, Xbox, Wii U, Wii, or even Switch Pro Controller drifted, because those cases aren't as bad/widespread as with the Joy Cons

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