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[Mohonky]

I still believe the issue here has something to do with the joycons not coming out of docked mode level of power output.

I personally havent had any issues with the joycons but I havent gone out of my way to test them either.

I sit about 2m from the dock and the dock is tucked up behind my PC monitor, about as far as I will probably get short of putting it in the Home Theatre room

For me, first thing I did with Switch was attach joyconsz go through setup, update system software, at which point system restarts. Never removed the joycpns till later just to check out the HDMI to pc monitor output from dock but Id already done all updating etc before then

 

[Serenitynow]

Remember , there are 2 reboots , one first to update switch fw , and ten another one to update the joycons

So when is Nintendo going to put this info out publicly? How are 2 million people going to know to reboot twice? With joy-cons attached?

 

[Kurt]

Dude on Gamefaqs just posted this.

https://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/189706-nintendo-switch/75054712/874207256

If 100% he had this prior to the reboot

https://vimeo.com/206410022

Then after reboot

https://vimeo.com/206451272

Ok it's solved.
Going to update it day1

 

[frankie_baby]

So when is Nintendo going to put this info out publicly? How are 2 million people going to know to reboot twice? With joy-cons attached?

First thing anyone with a problem with electronics either generally knows to do or will be told to do by technical support is reboot stuff

 

[komorebi]

All I can do is laugh at the fools who canceled their pre-order over this and then bragged about it.

 

[frankie_baby]

All I can do is laugh at the fools who canceled their pre-order over this and then bragged about it.

They never had an order in in the first place

 

[Seik]

Dude on Gamefaqs just posted this.

https://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/189706-nintendo-switch/75054712/874207256

If 100% he had this prior to the reboot

https://vimeo.com/206410022

Then after reboot

https://vimeo.com/206451272

Fuck yes, I can sleep at ease tonight before the big day!

 

[Dark Cloud]

All I can do is laugh at the fools who canceled their pre-order over this and then bragged about it.

Like why would you even cancel over this? Blows my mind at the overreaction I see by gamers.

 

[i HeaR MusiC]

All I can do is laugh at the fools who canceled their pre-order over this and then bragged about it.

Trust me, they never had it pre-ordered to begin with.

 

[Starchasing]

So when is Nintendo going to put this info out publicly? How are 2 million people going to know to reboot twice? With joy-cons attached?

Because its not affecting 2 million people, just a few people who probably have lots of interference in their room.

If they wanted to be scientific about this they should habe tried it in some ones house so they could eliminate the possibility of being because of the room.

 

[Glass Shark]

All I can do is laugh at the fools who canceled their pre-order over this and then bragged about it.

"Pre-order cancelled" is just a meme, almost no one actually does it for stuff like this.

 

[komorebi]

Trust me, they never had it pre-ordered to begin with.

At least one dude on GAF did. It was a Neon too lmao

 

[Suburban Thug]

Trust me, they never had it pre-ordered to begin with.

Why is a common defense to Nintendo criticism "they were never going to buy it anyway" or a variation of that phrase? It's almost a meme at this point; I expect it to pop up in any Nintendo related thread. Let them spend their money how they want, what does it matter? Just means one more person who is really passionate about the Switch gets to nab it at launch. Seems like a win-win to me.

As for the joycon issue, it seems like a minor annoyance at worst.

 

[Starchasing]

Why is a common defense to Nintendo criticism "they were never going to buy it anyway" or a variation? It's almost a meme at this point; I expect it to pop up in any Nintendo related thread. Let them spend their money how they want, what does it matter? Just means one more person who is really passionate about the Switch gets to nab it at launch. Seems like a win-win to me.

As for the joycon issue, it seems like a minor annoyance at worst.

Because you have to be an idiot to cancel your preorder because some stupid rumour on the internet when you can try it for yourself and then return it if does not work

 

[phanphare]

Dude on Gamefaqs just posted this.

https://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/189706-nintendo-switch/75054712/874207256

If 100% he had this prior to the reboot

https://vimeo.com/206410022

Then after reboot

https://vimeo.com/206451272

well this certainly bodes well

wonder what the issue with eurogamer is

 

[WordAssassin]

well this certainly bodes well

wonder what the issue with eurogamer is

Pride, apparently

 

[Anarky]

Imagine cancelling your pre-order over this only for it to be fixed this quickly. That would suck big time.

 

[calc84maniac]

Why is a common defense to Nintendo criticism "they were never going to buy it anyway" or a variation of that phrase? It's almost a meme at this point; I expect it to pop up in any Nintendo related thread. Let them spend their money how they want, what does it matter? Just means one more person who is really passionate about the Switch gets to nab it at launch. Seems like a win-win to me.

As for the joycon issue, it seems like a minor annoyance at worst.

We're specifically talking about people who claim they were going to buy it but now they're not because of some "inexcusable" information that just popped up. I find it hard to believe personally.

 

[UnemployedVillain]

Because you have to be an idiot to cancel your preorder because some stupid rumour on the internet when you can try it for yourself and then return it if does not work

Hey HEY! We have rules against name calling on GAF!

Spoiler

But the knee jerk reactions were hilarious

 

[i HeaR MusiC]

Why is a common defense to Nintendo criticism "they were never going to buy it anyway" or a variation of that phrase? It's almost a meme at this point; I expect it to pop up in any Nintendo related thread. Let them spend their money how they want, what does it matter? Just means one more person who is really passionate about the Switch gets to nab it at launch. Seems like a win-win to me.

As for the joycon issue, it seems like a minor annoyance at worst.

You're looking too deep into it. Makes zero sense to cancel a preorder for this type of an issue without knowing if there will be a day one patch that fixes it. Especially like a week before launch... come on, man.

 

[Starchasing]

Hey HEY! We have rules against name calling on GAF!

Spoiler

But the knee jerk reactions were hilarious

You know you can return goods if they dont work right??

I think most people complaining about something they do not want are either trolls or astroturfers.

 

[Joelstinton14]

I wouldn't stick the boot in to EG just yet. Personally, aside from LKD tweet and a couple of others i would like some more confirmation. It might be that the FW fixes something , but not everything. Or it is only working on some systems. So both could be right.

Personally i would like to see whether Chris Kholer and Jason from Kotaku have tried this and what there experiences are, considering they seemed to be most affected.

 

[Starchasing]

I wouldn't stick the boot in to EG just yet. Personally, aside from LKD tweet and a couple of others i would like some more confirmation. It might be that the FW fixes something , but not everything. Or it is only working on some systems. So both could be right.

Personally i would like to see whether Chris Kholer and Jason from Kotaku have tried this and what there experiences are, considering they seemed to be most affected.

Many people on reddit are confirming the fix on their machines.

 

[theonerayman]

I wouldn't stick the boot in to EG just yet. Personally, aside from LKD tweet and a couple of others i would like some more confirmation. It might be that the FW fixes something , but not everything. Or it is only working on some systems. So both could be right.

Personally i would like to see whether Chris Kholer and Jason from Kotaku have tried this and what there experiences are, considering they seemed to be most affected.

The video posted by the guy pre and post patch is pretty clear. It took what a day before anyone in the press posted on their site when thr issue was first discovered. I can see it being tomorrow before we get anything about it being resolved (yes people were tweeting about it pretty early on but it was the next day before we started seeing it appear on the actual sites)

 

[thefro]

Pride, apparently

Could be they have defective hw or lots of interference in their office.

I do think they're being a little smug considering they didn't isolate the problem in the first place (that was GameXplain).

 

[The Main Event]

Dude on Gamefaqs just posted this.

https://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/189706-nintendo-switch/75054712/874207256

If 100% he had this prior to the reboot

https://vimeo.com/206410022

Then after reboot

https://vimeo.com/206451272

Thank God.

 

[Inferno313]

well this certainly bodes well

wonder what the issue with eurogamer is

Wonder if this update improves the issue, but doesn't outright solve it 100%?

 

[KAL2006]

Why is the gaming media so useless. Making a huge deal about it. Even reviews such as IGNs review made this flaw apparent.

Why can't none of these major sites have a updated news story if this issue is fixed or not or even slightly better after firmware update. You would think major gaming sites would put such a news story as a high priority after all this is a new console launch with a major controller syncing issue

 

[Dark Cloud]

Why is the gaming media so useless. Making a huge deal about it. Even reviews such as IGNs review made this flaw apparent.

Why can't none of these major sites have a updated news story if this issue is fixed or not or even slightly better after firmware update. You would think major gaming sites would put such a news story as a high priority after all this is a new console launch with a major controller syncing issue

Yep. Gaming media should be called out. They're garbage. Make the updates if you're going to shit on something.

 

[Skittzo0413]

Yep. Gaming media should be called out. They're garbage. Make the updates if you're going to shit on something.

I'm telling you guys, they're all too busy playing Zelda to even know this is going on.

 

[KAL2006]

I'm telling you guys, they're all too busy playing Zelda to even know this is going on.

You'd think giving an update on hardware flaws of a launch of a system would be a high priority for gaming media where their job is to give you updates on major gaming news.

 

[Makonero]

Yep. Gaming media should be called out. They're garbage. Make the updates if you're going to shit on something.

Most of the reviews were written before the patch was out.

 

[UnemployedVillain]

Why is the gaming media so useless. Making a huge deal about it. Even reviews such as IGNs review made this flaw apparent.

Why can't none of these major sites have a updated news story if this issue is fixed or not or even slightly better after firmware update. You would think major gaming sites would put such a news story as a high priority after all this is a new console launch with a major controller syncing issue

Some reviews even called out not being able to access online features like the eShop and have yet to update their reviews since

Most of the reviews were written before the patch was out.

Lol, games journalism is their job and it's still work hours on both coasts in the US

 

[Skittzo0413]

You'd think giving an update on hardware flaws of a launch of a system would be a high priority for gaming media where their job is to give you updates on major gaming news.

Probably, yeah. But one of the perks of working for a games media company is you get to play games at/for work. I bet a lot of people are abusing the hell out of that perk right now, sorta short-staffing a lot of these outlets.

Not that it's a great excuse (and I am half kidding with this excuse).

Most of the reviews were written before the patch was out.

But they can still write articles to confirm if it is indeed fixed now.

 

[Makonero]

Probably, yeah. But one of the perks of working for a games media company is you get to play games at/for work. I bet a lot of people are abusing the hell out of that perk right now, sorta short-staffing a lot of these outlets.

Not that it's a great excuse (and I am half kidding with this excuse).



But they can still write articles to confirm if it is indeed fixed now.

I'm sure they will. Articles take time to write and verify.

 

[KingSnake]

Remember that some of the reported issues didn't happen continuously for some of reviewers. So it will take a bit longer to confirm that there absolutely no issues anymore.

 

[JershJopstin]

https://twitter.com/AndreSegers/status/837389642252992512

Tweeted an hour ago.

 

[Dark Cloud]

https://twitter.com/AndreSegers/status/837389642252992512

Tweeted an hour ago.

Thank god. This will finally put it to rest.

 

[KAL2006]

I'm sure they will. Articles take time to write and verify.

The Patch was released nearly 12 hours ago. I don't know, but if I owned a Switch first thing I'd test is if the JoyCon sync issue is sorted after a patch and that's just me. I'd expect gaming journalists to be on this within the first hour of the patch going live.

 

[Skittzo0413]

Thank god. This will finally put it to rest.

Probably not. There's such a wide range of issues and variables possibly causing these issues.

A statement from Nintendo would have been nice.

 

[Dark Cloud]

Probably not. There's such a wide range of issues and variables possibly causing these issues.

A statement from Nintendo would have been nice.

How many people are honestly having these issues? Nobody plays video games with a controller behind their back lol. The one guy I posted in here had no problems when doing the calibration while holding the joycon in front of him and behind his back.

 

[KingSnake]

Probably not. There's such a wide range of issues and variables possibly causing these issues.

A statement from Nintendo would have been nice.

I agree with this.

 

[JershJopstin]

Probably not. There's such a wide range of issues and variables possibly causing these issues.

It should tell us something. They have fairly in depth video on exactly how the joycons react pre-update; they can test it again in almost exactly the same environment. I do hope he tests it again before updating though, as wireless environments can change day-to-day.

EDIT:

A statement from Nintendo would have been nice.

I agree with this.

My bet is they're intent on stealth fixing it and pretending nothing happened. A lot of people [read: people who don't follow switch news on gaf/reddit] don't even know the problem exists; my guess is they don't want people to know it ever existed. If it is still present after the update, we'll probably see a statement since it affects consumers.

 

[DjRalford]

Probably not. There's such a wide range of issues and variables possibly causing these issues.

A statement from Nintendo would have been nice.

Trouble is no matter what statement they made it would be twisted to bad publicity, as long as they really have resolved the issues on day of release there no real harm done.

 

[KingSnake]

How many people are honestly having these issues?

We will find out very soon if Nintendo hasn't fix it.

The issues happened first actually while playing normally and that triggered afterwards more thorough testing, including occluding the joycons. Nobody start testing them out of nowhere.

 

[WordAssassin]

Could be they have defective hw or lots of interference in their office.

I do think they're being a little smug considering they didn't isolate the problem in the first place (that was GameXplain).

I was just being cheeky, based on the Twitter and comments of people here it seemed like they had installed the update but not rebooted to update the controllers, posted the update didn't fix the issue, got called out on it, and instead of updating their article or being direct on Twitter they were dodging questions and allegedly being dicks about it.

I mean is it so hard to just say, "Installing the patch alone doesn't work, but as others pointed out once you reboot the console again it installs updated firmware on the JoyCons that fixes the issue" they don't even have to swallow any pride or admit to being wrong that way.

 

[phanphare]

https://twitter.com/AndreSegers/status/837389642252992512

Tweeted an hour ago.

gamexplain does what eurogamer don't

 

[KingSnake]

gamexplain does what eurogamer don't

Eurogamer already tested again their joycons.

 

[Jyrii]

Trouble is no matter what statement they made it would be twisted to bad publicity, as long as they really have resolved the issues on day of release there no real harm done.

Not saying anything already caused them bad publicity. Don't really see any harm saying "we are working on it" especially if they actually could fix it day 1.

 

[phanphare]

Eurogamer already tested again their joycons.

I saw their update

doesn't sound conclusive to me and they've been dodgy on twitter