Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Cons Not Using Hall Effect Sticks

by Administrator April 7, 2025 0 comments

Stick drift has been an issue with the Nintendo Switch Joy-Cons since launch. It had been speculated this issue would be resolved with a successor to the console. Now, it has been confirmed the Joy-Cons for the Nintendo Switch 2 will not be using Hall Effect sticks. Nintendo did confirm the Joy-Con 2’s controllers have been redesigned from the ground-up at the very least. This news comes from Nintendo Life’s interview with Nintendo of America’s Nate Bihldorff.

Let’s jump off the sensitivity stuff then and talk about the stick of the Switch 2 Joy-Con because it feels so different to the original Switch’s analog stick. So is it a Hall Effect stick? Were you inspired by the Hall Effect stick?

Well, the Joy-Con 2’s controllers have been designed from the ground up. They’re not Hall Effect sticks, but they feel really good. Did you experience both the Joy-Con and the Pro Controller?

Both!

So, I like both, but that Pro Controller, for some reason the first time I grabbed it, I was like, “this feels like a GameCube controller.” I was a GameCube guy. Something about it felt so familiar, but the stick on that especially. I tried to spend a lot of time making sure that it was quiet. I don’t know if you tried really whacking the stick around but it really is [quiet]. I’m thinking back to my Smash Brothers days, where you just whack it. [The Switch 2 Pro Controller] is one of the quietest controllers I’ve ever played.

Quote from Nintendo Life’s interview with Nintendo of America’s Jeff Bihldorff.

You can read the full interview over at Nintendo Life.