Nintendo is trying to redesign Nintendo Switch 's Joy - Con

Nintendo will be available until the end of March 2019The sales target of Nintendo Switch is 20 million unitsIt is thought that it is planning to release big titles to achieve the goal. It is Nintendo Switch which needs attention in 2018, but from the beginning of release in March 2017Connection defect is reported by Joy-Con on the leftThere is also a problem that it is being done. But,FCCSubmitted toDocumentIGN reports that "Nintendo is trying to redesign Joy-Con," and the existence of data that makes perfect left Joy-Con not causing a connection failure problem will appear soon will be revealed It is.

Nintendo Working on Redesign of Joy - Con for Switch - IGN
http://www.ign.com/articles/2018/04/30/nintendo-working-on-new-redesign-of-joy-con-for-switch

Nintendo has been trying to solve the problem of poor connection on the left Joy-Con through a firmware update of Nintendo Switch after acknowledging the problem. However, as Nintendo America announced the statement "Variations occurred in the manufacturing process and caused radio wave interference", as the announced statement, the cause is not only software but also hardware, it has not been solved fundamentally It was.

The boards in the left and right Joy-Con of Nintendo Switch look like this. It is hard to understand a bit, but the left Joy-Con (red) is on the left and the left Joy-Con (blue) is on the right. Since the infrared sensor and NFC sensor are plugged in right at Joy - Con, a dedicated sensor is installed to increase the communication strength of Bluetooth. On the other hand, the left Joy - Con has enough space for placing the antenna on the board, so the lower half of the board is an antenna. However, it has been clarified by analyzing so far that this antenna gives rise to problems when actually sending commands when playing games.


The Nintendo official also recognizes Joy - Con 's poor connection and prepares a dedicated support page.

Joy-Con Not Responding or Responding Incorrectly When Used Wirelessly | Nintendo Switch | Nintendo Support


However, since it is known that there is a problem with some terminal hardware, the best measure is to redesign Joy - Con. In such a situation, it is a picture that shows that it seems that Joy - Con is redesigning. This is included in the documents submitted to the FCC, and it can be seen that the lower half of the board with the antenna is slightly different from the one of the existing left Joy-Con introduced earlier.


Looking at only the board looks like this.


The button on the left Joy-Con will cover the board like this.


Nintendo officially commented on the problem of poor connection on left Joy-Con "Commenting on the total number of repair requests and exchange requests to Nintendo Switch including Joy-Con is about the same as the new game machine that we have sold so far" However, as the number of Nintendo Switch shipments increased, the number of people encountering defective products should also increase. It can be inferred that Nintendo started the redesign of left Joy-Con this time as a result of full-scale efforts on the problem. However, Nintendo did not make an official comment on the redesign, and no response was obtained at the time of article creation, even for IGN's comment request.