Hall effect sticks are better than the potentiometer type sticks used in the Joycons and DualSense. They don’t make contact with anything so they don’t shed material and wear out as easily. The reason the other controllers get drift is from shavings from the contact pads messing with the signal. You can clean it for a temporary fix, but eventually there won’t even be a contact pad to provide a signal at all.
When I was a kid we had an N64 game called Ready to Rumble Boxing, and when you got knocked down you could only get up by moving the joystick form left to right really fast. We developed a technique to put our palms on it and smash the thing back and forth which resulted in a lot of dead N64 controllers.
Hopefully future children are saved from characters that only move at half speed and drive in random directions.
Hall effect sticks are better than the potentiometer type sticks used in the Joycons and DualSense. They don’t make contact with anything so they don’t shed material and wear out as easily. The reason the other controllers get drift is from shavings from the contact pads messing with the signal. You can clean it for a temporary fix, but eventually there won’t even be a contact pad to provide a signal at all.
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When I was a kid we had an N64 game called Ready to Rumble Boxing, and when you got knocked down you could only get up by moving the joystick form left to right really fast. We developed a technique to put our palms on it and smash the thing back and forth which resulted in a lot of dead N64 controllers.
Hopefully future children are saved from characters that only move at half speed and drive in random directions.