"Well, the Joy-Con 2's controllers have been designed from the ground up," Nintendo of America Senior Vice President of ...

thinks the Switch 2 is likely using carbon film potentiometer joysticks. That’s the same kind of technology used in most stock controllers. They work but the accuracy of the joysticks can ...

Switch 2’s updated joystick technology will address a major and expensive design flaw with the original Switch, which many owners experienced in the form of “stick drift.” Stick drift made ...

It's all about the relative failure rate. My understanding is that drift can and does happen on pretty much any non-Hall joystick, but that the Switch Joy-Cons were particularly susceptible based ...