9 Most Controversial Video Game Moments Of 2017

9. Nintendo Switch Launch Stock Hit With Hardware Faults

As far as disastrous hardware launches go, the record for Nintendo's reputation-saving hybrid console is squeaky clean, certainly in comparison to some of the worst offenders (red rings of a certain deathly quality come to mind) that consumers have been saddled with over the years, but it hasn't escaped unscathed.

Not long after launch, early adopters of the new tech discovered that one-half - always the left - of the Switch's Joy-Con controllers struggled to record player input when disconnected from the console.

Following a series of complaints from customers with voided warranties, no doubt, Ninty responded to the worrisome hiccup, describing the issue as a "manufacturing variation," but offering no repair or returns scheme to rectify the problem.

The Big N eventually did a U-turn on that policy, offering those affected the chance to send their faulty product back for repairs, but there was no need - the 'fix' involved placing a neatly-cut square of conductive foam inside the left pad to boost its weak wireless signal.

It goes without saying, of course, that the so-called 'variation' - i.e. 'we forgot to put the foam in a batch of launch stock' - hasn't reoccured since.

Funny, that.