This all started when my long term controller starting having an issue whilst playing Minecraft where the sticks wouldn't respond accurately with random timing, I would flick the stick right and it would take a second or 2 to realize "oh he is holding right" and then flick it back and have to wait for it to respond, then it started happening with the buttons.
I go to play Mario kart and realize the issue, thinking it's my controller, I open a new one, finish Mario kart and go back to Minecraft, again, 30 minutes later the same issue, so I go ahead and use the GameCube to USB adapter for smash WiiU, and it breaks the same way, even for the GameCube itself with no issues before.
I get my off brand switch controller and try using it on several games before Minecraft, no issue, go to Minecraft and no less then 5 minutes later it's doing it again.
I hard disconnect all controllers and reboot switch, all controllers are stil, effected upon plug in, I get my old joycons out, they work on every game, but 3 minutes into Minecraft it breaks.
I use my WiiU controller through adapter, it works for every game, for 3 days of use, then play Minecraft and it breaks again.
I am now down several controllers, and now will not be playing Minecraft until I can get confirmation this is fixed.
I should clarify I have used both the switch pro controller and joycons.
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Sounds like a Joy-con drift issue. Nintendo does off a free repair through the website. Have you tried to update the joy-cons? Also you can try to recalibrate the joystick through the settings on the switch itself.
@unknown Both Switch Pro Controller and Joy-cons (and the Wii-U Pro and GameCube controller) are susceptible to "the damage" is because they use resistive potentiometer. And the user moves the joystick a lot (and presses them a lot), which causes a lot of damage to the inside of the joysticks (the resistor / potentiometer), and when the joystick was damaged enough, even when the joystick was visually centered, the controller (the gamepad and Joy-cons) will think the joystick was having an input, so the joystick drift.
As @unknown said, the only official way to fix the stick drifting is to have the Joy-con sent (to Nintendo) for repair (https://support.nintendo.com/joyconrepair, Be sure to select where you are for support in your area).
Same thing happened to me with Joy-con drift, even with recalibrations, but the joysticks were drifting before I was playing Minecraft, because in some case the joystick on Joy-cons were stressed, causing Joy-con drift after, until I replaced the joysticks myself.
Sounds like a Joy-con drift issue. Nintendo does off a free repair through the website. Have you tried to update the joy-cons? Also you can try to recalibrate the joystick through the settings on the switch itself.