[alias_neo]

Nice points here. The real issues are the Joy-Con, because the Wireless can be solved with an ethernet adapter, but the Joy-Con get crazy drift on the left stick (3-for-3-pairs of them in my case) and the signal is horrific. I used to have the switch docked behind my TV on the stand, but the signal to the left one particularly was impossibly bad, in the end I ended up having to move the switch to line-of-sight which is slightly annoying when you have a nice tidy setup and the switch dock just randomly sitting off to the side, but the disconnects become really, really infuriating when you're 10 feet from the switch it the connection drops constantly.

I haven't noticed such issues with the Pro controller.

What I'd love to see are a more portable dock (I play almost always in TV mode) and a re-work of the Joy-Con that fixes the drift and signal issues.

[neuronic]

My colleague doesn't use the dock anymore because it is nothing but a glorified USB-C power adapter combined with an input for the HDMI signal.

However, due to Nintendo messing up the USB-C standard, this is dangerous and can brick the system! Otherwise, what would work is a USB-C dongle that transmits enough juice to the Switch (but not too much!), has an HDMI input to get the signal to the TV and voila, portability solved.

But no, Nintendo basically ensured that this is Russian roulette which can end up bricking your system.

[alias_neo]

Absolutely, I've considered a bunch of adapters, I even own one for my laptop that _should_ work with the switch, but I don't dare use it having read about issues of the third-party HDMI adapters bricking consoles. If I recall, they're blowing the power fuse because Nintendo is incorrectly negotiating PD.

[wDcBKgt66V8WDs]

I also have drift (maybe?) issues. One of my lefts will sporadically slam forwards and won't register anything else for like 1/4 second which is pretty horrendous in Splatoon. BoTW/Picross eh. One of my rights will pull left until I do a bluetooth re-pair and calibrate. I find it odd that neither of them are consistent? Like why only sometimes, and why the one for a split second and the other until something is done about it?

I've been meaning to get electronics cleaner to test.

[alias_neo]

I've done a fair bit of testing with mine, have even modded my left cons with antenna extensions. There are two issues at play; first, the analogue sticks are crap and a bit of dust, human adult usage, frequent usage, or some combination of the above, makes the sticks register even when they're not being pressed. This results, for example in; if I put the Joy-Con down on the table while in the eShop, it'll bounce around every item all by itself. if I'm in a game, it'll keep walking in a particular direction until i flick/tap/move the stick to stop it.

The second issue is the signal one (hence the antenna mod). I'm an adult male with large hands (I can practically hide an entire Joy-Con in one hand). If you close your hand over it completely, it'll drop signal (the left on in particular) because it has a PCB antenna instead of the off-board antenna like the right con, it also doesn't help, that if you touch the metal strip on the con, you likely ground the signal as that strip becomes a shield; In normal use the metal strip is oriented to the open part of your hand, but with large hands, you're going to touch it anyway.

This second issue with signal loss, causes a very similar effect, in that (usually) the last direction pressed before the connection dropped will continue until it is reconnected.

[wDcBKgt66V8WDs]

Did the antennas help? Of the four, my original right is the worst with signal. The new pair has the drift issues while the original pair still has no drift issues. The new left one is the one that sporadically drifts whereas the new right one is the one that is consistently OK until after coming out of sleep.

As you can see, playing with reliable controllers now requires a bit of a decision tree navigated via the controllers current moods...