(Meaning stick your head so far up your ass you lose sight of reality, and so obsessed with the past you become regressive rather than capable of adaptimg to situstions ANNNND: so overly convinced of the power of your "brand name recognition" you squander the future for a not even actual profit on the "now.")

it's so sus that they have a repair service already up and running

and why are the joycons the same??

very glad we stuck with the original...

I wouldn't fault them for having repair services ready at launch, I'd fault them for using identical sticks

True!

They're good at fucking up

Yes

...oh rofl i was expecting something more nefarious and cunning than just "ehhhh nah we're not improving shit, just give us more money"

and yeah having a repair service ready day one is fine for like if someone gets their new thing and it broke in shipping or wherever, fine.....

...but having a repair service that specifically targets replacing the known to be bad parts they used before and refused to replace just banishes any possibility that they had maybe thought a fault on the supply side had been corrected

this sounds to me at least like nah they knew they were reusing known trash parts with full knowledge they were and still are trash parts while hiking up the price tag, but recognizing that they're selling trash they got ready to swap in some other trash parts for free to avoid getting in trouble

yup

honestly I wonder if they overguessed Switch sales and ordered way too many crappy sticks and need to move that excess inventory

I'm still baffled about the joysticks... wouldn't it solve their issues if they just used Hall Effect sensor versions? and be cheaper in the long term?

that's why I wonder if they just bought way too much shit joysticks

*too many

No

Just a matter of 1) lack of innovation 2) lack of responding to their OWN internal market data 3) WHO YOU KNOW -- they have literal contracts with the contractors (derp I should say that better but you get what I mean) and rather than force quality control updates they're more concerned with their relationships staying in good standing. That is the ONE thing

you can USUALLY count on corporations to not do I get it. Japanese. They'd rather apologize later than fix in advance and deal with the awkwardness of that discussion but come the fuck on. This is why there's a Japanese trope about HAVING an obnoxious American on staff. Becuase we will fucking scream and shout and kool-aid man through walls to get

the point across that no one else is willing to speak up but they're all thinking.

Fuck your hierarchies, fuck your ~business relationships~ they aren't going to be worth shit if you both go down on the ship dipshits

"CC why are you this mad about Nintendo ffs"

It's not them as much as that ASPECT of humanity that is part of my core programming to fix and it pisses me off because I KNOW THEY KNOW BETTER

They just choose NOT to be better because there is a constant "ehhh I guess brand recognition will carry us." ONLY SO FAR STUPIDS grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Also I might be trying to be all "Let's make Japanese economy #1!!!!" and I can't if they keep doing that jsyk

And Yes. I genuinely expected Nintendo to be better than MAGA ffs

Stop trying to dig through the floor. be better