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The entire controller industry has this problem. From the base to the top end, controllers fail like crazy due to "stick drift." It's planned obsolescence.
by KennyBlanken 4y ago
The entire controller industry has this problem. From the base to the top end, controllers fail like crazy due to "stick drift." It's planned obsolescence.
- jader201 4y agoI've been using multiple generations of different console controllers for years, since analog sticks were a thing. Out of the 8 or 10 joycons (not pairs) that we own, more than half of them are affected by drift -- maybe approaching all of them. I don't know that I've ever had this problem on any other console's controller (and I usually have 3-4 controllers of every other console). I don't think this is a coincidence -- this issue is way worse on Nintendo Switch controllers than any other controller, even their own prior gen controllers. By at least an order of magnitude, maybe two. While it may be an industry-wide problem, it's definitely not a problem to this extent.
- gruez 4y ago>From the base to the top end, controllers fail like crazy due to "stick drift." It's planned obsolescence. Or maybe the technology to make it last forever doesn't exist or is prohibitively expensive? Blaming it on "planned obsolescence" makes as much sense as saying that batteries are "planned obsolescence" because they eventually wear out.