Joy-Con drift has been an issue with the Nintendo Switch since day one. There have been complaints, lawsuits, homemade fixes, and accusations that Nintendo has no intention of fixing the problem.

And now Nintendo has been hit with yet another class action lawsuit, which is notable in that one of the plaintiffs is literally a child. This is because minors are generally not allowed to have attorneys.

The complaint was filed in Northern California by Ruth Sanchez and her unnamed son. According to court documents, Sanchez purchased a Switch for her then 10-year-old son in December 2018. Within a month, the controller began registering incorrect movements without being handled, according to the complaint.

Within a year, the controllers were completely unusable, forcing Sanchez to reluctantly purchase another set of Joy-Cons. However, according to the complaint, the drifting began seven months later.

This is all too familiar to Switch owners, and Nintendo has even apologized for the problem and offered free post-warranty repairs for the defective controllers. However, it has filed a similar class action lawsuit against the company, which is currently in arbitration.

Sanchez's lawyers argue that Nintendo did not do enough to fix the problem or warn customers that the drift was a potential problem. Defendants had a financial incentive to conceal the defect because they did not want to stop selling the Product and/or because they needed to spend a significant amount of money to cure the defect."

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It seems really odd to make a 9-year-old a plaintiff in a lawsuit, but it makes a little sense. After all, the Switch was meant for him, and he would have had to deal with the headache of having to play games while Joy-Con Drift fooled around. [In 1989, a nine-year-old kid was so disappointed with baseball video games that he sued Nintendo along with Major League Baseball and LJN Games. He not only asked for the $40 he had spent back, but also demanded that Nintendo stop selling the games because they "failed to live up to their promises."