{"id":5212,"date":"2025-07-17T16:37:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T16:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/5212\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T16:37:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T16:37:08","slug":"dbrand-reveals-joy-lock-system-to-deal-with-killswitch-joy-con-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/5212\/","title":{"rendered":"Dbrand Reveals ‘Joy-Lock’ System To Deal With Killswitch Joy-Con “Controversy”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Dbrand<\/a>Image: Dbrand<\/a><\/p>\n

A short time ago, Dbrand came under fire for design issues with its Killswitch Case for Switch 2<\/a> \u2013 in short, some users were finding that, with the case attached, the magnetic connection between the console and its Joy-Con 2 controllers was weakened, leading to them disengaging unintentionally<\/a>.<\/p>\n

At the time, Dbrand appeared to dismiss the issue<\/a>, only to quickly apologise and promise to issue replacement parts that would solve the problem. It has now contacted its customers to clarify how it is dealing with the fault.<\/p>\n

“A few weeks back, you may have seen articles floating around about a Killswitch controversy,” says the company in an email seen by Nintendo Life.<\/p>\n

“The extreme tl;dr version of this issue is that, when the Killswitch is held under very specific one-handed conditions, some Switch 2 Joy-Cons are unexpectedly detaching from the main console. This is due to a manufacturing tolerance issue on our original production run. Because the tolerance issue only affected a portion of stock, there\u2019s a good chance you never noticed the issue at all. Whether you\u2019ve experienced the issue or not, there\u2019s no reliable way for us to determine which units were affected. As a result, we\u2019re taking a cautious approach and simply replacing everyone\u2019s Joy-Con Grips for free.”<\/p>\n

In the same email, the manufacturer insists it has gone one better by creating an “all-new design that eliminates the risk of detachment entirely” called ‘Joy-Lock’.<\/p>\n

Dbrand is also taking steps to address complaints levelled at its Dock Adapter, which ships alongside the Killswitch Case for Switch 2:<\/p>\n

“In addition to feedback about the Joy-Con Grips, we\u2019ve heard from customers that our Dock Adapter makes it difficult to un-dock the Switch 2 with one hand. As a result, users find themselves needing to hold the dock adapter down with one hand, while un-docking their Switch 2 with the other. To remedy this, all shipments of Joy-Lock Grips will also include a set of friction pads to apply to your Dock Adapter. These friction pads will make the Dock Adapter seat more snugly on the OEM dock, enabling one-handed undocking.”<\/p>\n

Dbrand says it is “currently in the process of mass-producing about half a million sets of the new Joy-Lock Grips and a similar number of Dock Adapter friction pads,” and that shipping is expected to take place in early August.<\/p>\n

\"Damien<\/p>\n

Damien has been writing professionally about tech and video games since 2007 and oversees all of Hookshot Media’s sites from an editorial perspective. He’s also the editor of Time Extension<\/a>, the network’s newest site, which \u2013 paradoxically \u2013 is all about gaming’s past glories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Image: Dbrand A short time ago, Dbrand came under fire for design issues with its Killswitch Case for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5213,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1751,3093,59,376,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-5212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-accessories","tag-dbrand","tag-gb","tag-nintendo-switch-2","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}