France's consumer protection authority fined Nintendo an amount reaching 60 billion won for notifying consumers late even after identifying defects in the Nintendo Switch's controllers.
According to Kyodo News and other Japanese media on the 9th, France's consumer protection authority the previous day imposed a penalty surcharge of 35 million euros (about 61 billion won) on Nintendo, saying the company identified malfunctions in the Switch's controllers but notified consumers late and failed to provide fair information. Nintendo also said it agreed to pay the penalty surcharge to the French authority.
The Nintendo Switch, released in 2017, had "joystick drift," in which the controller moves on its own contrary to the user's intent, in some units. In 2023, Nintendo's European subsidiary released that it would repair defective devices free of charge.