Judge tosses Joy-Con drift class action because of Switch’s pop-up EULA

Enlarge / Replacing a drifting Joy-Con joystick is a lot easier than finding standing to sue Nintendo about it. (credit: iFixit)

A potential class-action lawsuit over the joystick drift experienced by Nintendo Switch owners has been dismissed, with a federal judge ruling that Nintendo's end-user license agreement (EULA) for the console bars such lawsuits.

William Alsup, US District Judge for the Northern District of California, ruled (PDF) in late November that two plaintiffs...