For the game controller context, anyone who thinks otherwise has probably never taken apart an old potentiometer, and looked inside at the carnage. Things scrap

For the game controller context, anyone who thinks otherwise has probably never taken apart an old potentiometer, and looked inside at the carnage. Things scraping together, wearing each other away, until they fail in a non graceful way. Solid state analog is hard to beat, in low current devices, with human speed dB/dt.