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I would never pay this price for a pair of joycons right now...
Good luck getting them brand new cheaper than this from a legit source and/or ones that aren't counterfeit or ones that aren't defective that some unscrupulous person swapped with new ones and then returned them at like Walmart and they put them back up for sale marked down because they don't check anything properly.
Last edited by Shad0WeN September 24, 2026 at 10:36 AM.
My Walmart had all colors of these marked down to $18 about a year ago. It was so weird they kept it at that price for about 2 or 3 weeks and continued to replenish the inventory whenever they sold out and continued to sell them at that price. And then one day they went back up to retail. I still to this day do not understand why that happened.
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Good price or not the really infuriating thing about these is joycon drift. 68 bucks so Nintendo could maintain high margins on these knowing they are going to quickly fail.
I need some older Switch joy cons, so what are the options if these suffer from drift issues and the non-Nintendo don't work as well? If they all fail eventually, maybe just get the non-Nintendo brand? Do these Nintendo ones fail "later"?
Is paying extra for the real joycons worth it? Or does it make sense to save your money and get the knock-offs? I don't really play that much, but I still need me some joycons.
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