A kid who got himself a case of ‘Joy-Con drift’ with his Nintendo Switch got so upset with the company that he’s suing them.

For those who have owned a Nintendo Switch for some time, chances are that you’ve experienced an unfortunate case of ‘Joy-Con drift’ – an issue where the controller’s analogue stick veers in one direction without your input and making it nigh impossible to play games properly.

Well one boy over in America got so pissed off with the Joy-Con drift problem on his Switch that he’s gone and sued Nintendo for not doing enough to fix the issue (presumably so he can play Hades without problems).

According to WIRED, a woman named Luz Sanchez and her nine (or 10) year-old son (who is listed as a minor in the documents) filed a class action lawsuit in Northern California against Nintendo over this Joy-Con drift issue.

The complaint describes how Sanchez bought her son a Nintendo Switch in December 2018, only for the Joy-Cons to start becoming faulty within a month.

It is alleged that less than a year later, “the Joy-Con drift became so pronounced that the controllers became inoperable for general gameplay use.”

Apparently Sanchez bought another set of Joy-Cons, only for those to start drifting seven months later.

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The plaintiffs are seeking over $5 million (about $7 million dollarydoos) in damages, with Sanchez’s lawyers arguing that Nintendo “has had a financial motive to conceal the defect, as it did not want to stop selling the Products, and/or would need to expend a significant amount of money to cure the defect.”

This isn’t the first Joy-Con drift issue that Nintendo has had to face. The company started offering free repairs for Joy-Cons back in July 2019 though this became complicated in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Guess we’ll have to see how this weird little story pans out for the kid and Nintendo. Maybe the company will offer him a pro controller to replace the Joy-Cons or something.

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