Nintendo Must Pay $46 Million Fine in France After Its Initial Silence Over Widespread Joy-Con Drift Issues
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Joy-Con Drift: Nintendo Sentenced to €35 Million Fine for This Defect on the Nintendo Switch Console
Some controllers present a problem of reactivity, causing "phantom, intempestive or inverted movements of characters," points out the DGCCRF.
The European branch of Nintendo has agreed to pay the EUR 35 million fine imposed by DGCCRF for misleading commercial practice. The authority accuses him of not communicating on the malfunctions of the first Switch controllers as soon as it becomes aware of it.
Japanese video game giant Nintendo has agreed to pay 35 million euros in France to close a dispute related to the malfunctions of its Switch console between 2018 and 2023
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Malfunctions of the Joy-Con controllers of the Switch console were detected between 2018 and 2023, following a complaint filed by UFC-Que Choisir in 2020.
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